Pre-viewed for quality and starts abruptly with Fox logo, no previews, and has some rolling lines on the latter part of the opening credits. Otherwise the rest of the film played fine on my Mitsubishi s-vhs deck. Cassette has store branded security stickers on both endcaps assuring you of first generation quality. Box is nice with very little wear but does have a liner lift on the tombstone of the front cover from where a sticker was removed. Could be colored in with a gray pencil or marker and be less noticeable. Back top left corner is a little wrinkled. Out Of Print (OOP) in all formats and no longer being produced. The story concerns Francesco DellaMorte (Rupert Everett), the caretaker of Buffalora Cemetery, where--seven nights after each new burial--the dead return to life as zombies, requiring DellaMorte and his amiable, hulking assistant Gnaghi (based on 'Curly' of 3 Stooges) to put them back into their graves with a well-aimed bullet to the head. Both DellaMorte and the speechless Gnaghi manage to find love in these troubled times, but also find it fixed from death: DellaMorte falls for a young and voluptious widow (Anna Falchi) with a fetish of vaults that hold the dead, and Gnaghi finds happiness with the reamains of the Mayor's daughter, whose animated head he retrieves from her casket after she is decapitated in a road accident. Both love stories end tragically (and amusingly), and DellaMorte experiences a bizarre encounter with two women physically identical to his lady love before suffering a nervous breakdown. In his delirium, the Angel of Death appears to him and advises him that the only way to save himself from having to kill the dead, is to shoot them in the head the first time--while their still living... Graced with dreamy photography and a splendid score, the film is not only a catalogue of breathtaking set pieces, but also an index of Michele Soavi's own brief history of filmmaking. The apparent heir to Dario Argento's throne (he understudied with him) Soavi instead decided to quit the business and raise his own kids. This is one of my all-time favorite horror/dark comedies and should have been a worlwide success, but despite an endorsement from Martin Scorsese (who called it the Best Film of 1993), it waited years before finding an American distributor.