April Showers ... With Zombies
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 9:10PM Have you ever seen Cemetery Man (1994), a schlocky Italian horror flick from 1994 starring Rupert Everett as the titular character? He fends off pesky zombies including his lover (the busty Anna Falchi) with some regularity.
Despite my long dormant Everett fandom (I was there right at the beginning with Another Country / Dance With a Stranger), I've still never seen this one all the way through. I was just thinking about this because I was in Nashville and some years ago when I juried there with Nick Davis, who loves the movie, he showed me pieces of it.
Everett's character Francesco Dellamorte apparently takes a lot of showers and apparently he's used to getting attacked by zombies -- just part of the job. more... But on this particular night in the movie they come earlier than expected. The lights go out in the shower, he sees one approaching in shadow (shower curtains = scary in movies), and then the zombies, in what looks like boy scout uniforms (hee!) begin to attack. He does what one does in these situations, shooting the zombies in the head.
The most hilarious thing about the gorey sequence is that Rupert is attacked in the shower but when he fights back in the very next cut he's wearing pants. How did this happen? Zombies move slowly but slow enough for their victims to slip on a pair of pants before finding a weapon? It's not for some 'no nudity' clause either -- since Everett gets naked elsewhere in the movie.
This final post shower attack makes me giggle. Who can blame the little shit for wanting a nibble?
If you were a zombie, which Brit beauty would you consider fine dining come shower time?
Reader Comments (5)
There is something very hot and rugged sexy to me about James McAvoy
He is so hot in The Last Station. Maybe it's just me that finds him so smoldering...
Nathaniel, any chance you'll do an April Showers for Skyfall?
Tom Hardy first
then Rupert
Rupert Penry-Jones and Richard Armitage.
If we're just going by British actors...
TOP 10:
Clive Owen
James McAvoy
Orlando Bloom
Rupert Friend (if he had the mustache from "The Young Victoria")
Henry Cavill
Jamie Bell
Joseph Fiennes
Max Irons
Rafe Spall
Colin Firth
And oh, I remember seeing "Cemetery Man" a few years ago. I had read the graphic novel it's sorta based on ("Dylan Dog") and liked it. The newer film adaptation ("Dylan Dog: Dead of Night" starring Brandon Routh) not so much.