The Phantasmagoric ‘Cemetery Man’ May Get A Sequel; Director Also Talks Up ‘Goonies’-Like Project With Nicolas Cage
Did I just say that the discovery of previously-lostBlue Velvetscenes was thebest news of the day? Well, it still is, but running a close second is the revelation that Italian directorMichele Soavimight be returning to horror, and that his vehicle could be a sequel to his awesome 1994 existential zombie movieDellamorte Dellamore, akaCemetery Man. If you don’t know that movie, then chew on this: he also mentions aGoonies-like movie that might starNicolas Cage.
Fangoriatalked to producer and director Dario Argento (for whom Mr. Soavi once worked as an assistant director and actor) who said,
If that’s not enough, there may be another film in store:
Michele also told me… that he’s probably gonna shoot, in 2011, a movie in the style of THE GOONIES, starring Nicolas Cage, about some boys' adventures in Pompeii, the dead Roman city near the Vesuvius volcano, while searching for a hidden treasure.
(Actually, it’s unclear whether Dario Argento relayed the info, or if that came from Mr. Soavi talking directly to Fangoria’s writer. Regardless, the mag vets the info, so…)
Both potential projects sound like great things. I loveCemetery Manto death — Michele Soavi has a great background in Italian horror (see him acting in the nasty gut-vomiting scene fromCity of the Living Dead!) but forCemetery Manhe took influence from theDylan Dogcomics and several other sources to produce a hypnotic, wholly unusual zombie movie. StarRupert Everettis great as a social outcast who works at a cemetery where the dead occasionally come back to life. There he meets a stunningly gorgeous widow (Anna Falchi) and then things begin to get really weird. There’s a lot of wild stuff in the classic canon of Italian shockers, but nothing quite like the events ofCemetery Man. I can’t even imagine what a sequel would look like, but I’d love to see it.
The US DVD of the film is out of print, but you can seemingly still get it from Netflix. Here’s aslightly not safe for worksubtitled version of the original trailer:
[viaTwitch]
