Keyser & Shuriken - newsletter #18: Dellamorte Dellamore
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Newsflash 20.04.2000
Dear friends,
As you can see we have no playlist this week, basically because we played on a Cinetrip event in Budapest's famous Rudas Bath with Nicola Conte. So our radio show was entirely done by dj Lee'n'gum, our brilliant friend, and our clubnight was hosted by the other three djs we work together with. Anyway, we had a real cool time hanging out with Nicola (who have brought to us a caseful of his fabulous Fez/Schema releases from Italy). He played a marvellous set on Friday night on Tilos Radio. He has thrown a couple of tracks in the mix from his forthcoming album. After listening to them, we are pretty sure that all of you jazz heads out there would kill to get this album. (Probably with chainsaws in real b-movie style!)
This week's reading is for the fans of Italian cinema:
"Dellamorte Dellamore" (Original title.) is quite the hidden gem. Francesco, a troubled cemetery caretaker, has problems with the dead. Mainly the pesky buggers refuse to stay dead, rising from their graves as hideous zombies within one week of burial. (A pretty common occurrence in Italy we can all agree.) He complains to the town hall, shoots them, and even splits their heads with a shovel. Then She comes into his life, still mourning the death of her husband they fall hopelessly in love. Number one reason it's hopeless? Dead hubby wakes up and kills her before Gnaghi splits the zombie's head open. Did I mention Gnaghi? This guy is AWESOMELY funny, he spends most of the film appearing to be a sputtering idiot. Little bit on the heavy side and constantly eating with a one word vocabulary, you can say a great deal with one word (Depending on inflection, length, volume.), especially when that word is "Nah!" Back to our poor hero, of course his love comes back and he's forced to shoot her. No adverse impact on your mental health there, shooting the woman you love. To make matters worse, he soon begins encountering strange alternate versions of her, all of which find themselves strangely attracted to him. Still, they're women and screw him over. (Shut up, sit down.) Gnaghi falls in love too, with the Mayor's daughter. Her death is the kindling flame of their romance as the happy goof digs up the corpse and pulls the head off to take home. Gnaghi merrily playing a tune while the rotting head sings is plenty whacked, plus he has her mounted inside the demolished television set. (It was shot by accident while battling zombies.) Plenty of oddities in this one, Francesco talking to the statue of Death in the cemetery, the entire movie occurs inside a snowglobe (Long story...), those weird little "blue lights" which flit around, and our main character going on a killing spree. My recommendation for this movie? "Nah!"
Find out more about this great film at: http://www.badmovies.org/movies/cemeteryman/index.html
Keep on rising from your graves till next week!
Keyser & Shuriken
No playlist this time... :-(
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