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Francesco [[Bilingual Bonus|Dellamorte]] works as the caretaker of the local cemetery in the small Italian town of Buffalora. He's aided in his work by Gnaghi, a mentally-handicapped man only capable of saying "gna." (Like "nya" but not [[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
Oh, he also kills the zombies that awaken every night with [[Revolvers Are Just Better|his revolver.]]
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One of the few movies that mixes [[Black Comedy|comedy]], [[Boy Meets Girl|romance]], [[Rule of Cool|zombie hunting]], and [[Contemplate Our Navels|existentialism]], and mixes them well. Also known as ''Dellamorte Dellamore'' in Italian, and ''[[Bilingual Bonus|Mi novia es un Zombie]]'' in Spanish.
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* [[A Love to Dismember]]
* [[Arc Words]]: "Will I see her again?"
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* [[Boy Meets Ghoul]]: {{spoiler|When Francesco meets the widow. Again. Also Gnaghi and the mayor's daughter.}}
* [[Brick Joke]]: "Mmm. Who knows if the rest of the world even exists?"
* [[Can't Get in
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Franco.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Hoo boy, Francesco.
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* [[Dysfunction Junction]]
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Almost no one in the town refers to Francesco by name. They usually call him "Engineer," which he hates. {{spoiler|Even the undead mayor refers to him this way, and Francesco finally gets to take his anger out on something.}}
* [[Expy]]: Francesco is an Italian expy of [[Dylan Dog]], and actually appears, with Gnaghi, in several issues of the comic. Dylan Dog is a visual expy of Rupert Everett, [[Mind Screw|who plays Francesco in]] ''[[Mind Screw|Cemetery Man]]''.
* [[Gainax Ending]]
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Francesco and Gnaghi switch vocabularies at the end.}}
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Straight from the mouth of {{spoiler|[["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer|The Grim Reaper]]}} to Francesco: "If you don't want the dead coming back to life, why don't you just kill the living? Shoot them in the head."
* [[Love At First Sight]]: The widow. {{spoiler|And the widow's clones. The actress who plays them all is credited as "She."}}
* [[Man Child]]: Gnaghi.
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* [[Mind Screw]]: Big spoiler here. {{spoiler|By the end of the film, it's uncertain whether Francesco actually exists, or is just a fantasy of Franco. When Francesco goes on a killing spree to stop the Returners from rising, he Can't Get In Trouble For Nuthin' and the police arrest Franco for all his murders. The possibility is further muddied as Franco is bedridden and unable to move when Francesco brings a gun to the hospital and kills a doctor and a nun.}}
* [[Meaningful Name]]: André Dellamorte means {{spoiler|Warrior Noble Death - A noble warrior of death - YMMV}}
* [[No Name Given]]: "She."
* [[Not So Different]]: Francesco considers himself not too terribly different from Death.
* [[Only Sane Man]] / [[Only Sane Employee]]: Francesco wants to report the zombies as business expenses so he can use the town's money to pay for his bullets, but the bureaucracy is too dense for it.
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Type F, for the most part. Some Returners, like {{spoiler|the mayor's daughter}}, have unusual abilities.
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* [[Unreliable Narrator]]
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