Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Michael_Elliott Zeder (1983) ** 1/2 (out of 4)Stefano (Gabriele Lavia) is given a typewriter as a gift from his girlfriend and one night he begins to read the ribbon in it. He learns about a doctor who might know a burial ground where the dead can rise up so Stefano begins an investigation.ZEDER is an Italian horror movie that is hated by many but not because of the film's fault. The film was released in America as REVENGE OF THE DEAD with one of the greatest posters that you're ever going to see. The poster featured a great looking zombie creature with rotting flesh and a tagline warning "The Dead Shall Rise." Well, that led a lot of people to believe they were about to see something like a Lucio Fulci zombie film and simply put, that's not what ZEDER is.If you're expecting any type of graphic violence or gore then it's best you forget about that because you're not going to find any of that. In fact, the film is quite tame in its story, which is basically a mystery with a journalist setting out to uncover a secret. The film has a very slow pace to it and to say the film is a slow burn would be an understatement but that's exactly what it is. The film features a very rich and thick atmosphere, which is certainly the best thing about it. Director Pupi Avati does a very good job at building up the atmosphere and this here makes the film quite memorable.There's one major flaw with the picture and that's the fact that there's really not too much that happens. I don't mind the slow pacing but I thought the story was rather lacking and especially in the middle portion where the journalist grows a bit closer when he is left in a small town with some secrets. I honestly thought there were twenty-minutes that could have been removed from the film and you wouldn't have lost anything in the story. I wish something more had been done but sadly that wasn't to happen.Performances are good for what they are and for the most part there's an interesting story here but one just wishes something more had been done with it. With that being said, ZEDER is an interesting horror film that is quite different from the rest of what Italy was giving us during this era.

murfit This movie presents a well-constructed mystery, with an intriguing start (a writer finds text on his typewriter's ink ribbon) which leads to a series of gradual revelations and a nice climax. The fact that the sinister truth appears to be almost within grasp all of the time, but cannot be reached by the protagonist because of the intervention of various shady figures makes for a good suspenseful and unsettling atmosphere. The one big flaw of the movie is however that the plot relies to an absurd amount on coincidences – this could have been done far better. Still, a recommended movie for everyone that likes a horror-themed mystery.To all the zombie apocalypse fans giving this movie bad reviews: Stop punishing this film for not being what you expected based on the misleading advertising of its American distributor!

dbborroughs They call it a zombie movie but its not really. Its a creepy little thriller.The plot of this film has a guy running down what was previously typed on a typewriter (he looked at the ribbon to see what the person before typed) and ends up dropped in the middle of a rather strange mystery about places where time stops and the dead come back...I had read about this in the Italian Zombie movie book and was intrigued. When I happened upon it used at a cheap price I picked it up. It was a good purchase.This is a film with no real gore. Its a film that builds through atmosphere and through twisting circumstances. Its one of those movies that makes you feel uneasy. You know it doesn't make sense but you have to keep watching because there is something about the internal logic that demands it, you watch it even though your skin is crawling and you're shifting uneasily in your chair.No its not the best horror film ever made, but its a damn good one. One I wouldn't hesitate to recommend to anyone who wants a decent thriller. Trust me, as some one some what versed in and tired of what is called typical Italian horror, ie films that make no sense and which are very gory, Zeder is a breath of fresh air.If you're in the mood for something off beat and unexpected in your horror films I'd say rent Zeder, you could do a hell of a lot worse...And for those pondering the Pet Semetary angle...both this film and Stephen King's book appeared at about the same time

wulfthar ...in an historical period like the end of the 70's/beginning of the 80's when the Italian horror panorama was dominated by gore and splatter cannibal/zombie B movies Avatu chose to make very different movie, not based on gruesome and cheap FXs, but on Gothic atmospheres and darkness.Surely the result was light years far away from Fulci's Zombie 2 or worse trash like Zombi Holocaust, not just in "philosofical" terms but also as final result: Zeder (I refuse to use the silly title used by the American distribution) is one of those rare movie that effectively creates a sensation of tension and a climax of fear and emotional cliffhanger from the beginning to the final scene, showing in front of the camera very, very, few. Less is more.From certain points of view the movie shows the typical weaknesses of the Italian production (especially Argento's) of that time: the series of unfortunate events that leads Stefano little by little to the central theme of the movie doesn't work well and it's totally unrealistic, performance of the two main characters, Stefano and Alessandra, not really persuading to be at the required level (Stefano is quite wooden and looks lunatic, I wonder why a "light" woman should be able to live with a man of this kind, while Alessandra never seems to realize what's happening and the dangers of their situation so she always reacts in a silly way), the music sometimes is disturbing but contributes to build up thrilling little by little.The most amazing fact behind this movie is without doubt the "coincidences" (not to use a stronger term) between Avati's plot and Stephen Kingìs "Pet Semetary", later in 1989 a movie but published in 1984. In certain points nobody cannot deny that the basic concept (a territory very well known in ancient times to be able to reanimate the dead buried there)and many scenes, especially the end when a desperate husband buries in the cursed cemetery the corpse of her loved one, that coincide perfectly.Just a case? Before watching the movie, I didn't believe this rumor, after this night I think uncle Stephen should give some..explanations about it.