Other gimmicks included buzzers placed under theater seats, skeletons flying from the screen, an ambulance outside the theater and actresses dressed up as nurses who made each patron sign a release form before viewing the movie. Video takes some of this fun away from viewing Castle's films, but the nostalgia is still there. I had the luck of seeing this flick at the Gardner Student Center Theatre in my freshman year here. I must admit, this is an amazingly strange movie. Rupert Everett stars as Francesco Dellamorte, the caretaker of an extremely active cemetery.
Every person buried on the land comes back from the dead in the usual zombie-like fashion.
The only way to kill them again it is to shoot them in the head, and this is Francesco's job. He is aided by Gnaghi, a silent yet very emotion-filled man who finds his true love in the form of a decapitated girl's head. This is a somewhat successful attempt to combine comedy and the low budget horror genre. He then pays his henchmen to take a few townspeople out of their misery. Each movement must have a founder.