SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

hwg1957-102-265704 An author in Bologna is given an electric typewriter by his wife and information on the ribbon leads him to find out about K zones, the wok of Dr Zeder and a group bringing the dead back to life. The film is strong on atmosphere with good cinematography, evocative locations and a sizzling music score by Riz Ortolani but overall doesn't make much sense. The beginning is confusing, the middle throws up unanswered questions and the ending is weak. (Indeed, what does happen at the end?) The cast are adequate but not outstanding. Given a clearer narrative it would have been more engrossing. The director Pupi Avati has made better films.

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.

d_m_s Novelist is given a second hand type writer as a gift and finds remains of previous owner's notes still on the ribbon. This leads to him investigating a man named Zeder. He finds out about Zeder's work and 'K-Zones', which I think are powerful zones where energy can be tapped into, to bring the dead back to life.It's an OK film but quite forgettable. Some of the ideas are good, about K-zones and all that but it's just a little bland overall. The ending doesn't make much sense when Zeder returns from the dead and hunts said Novelist but it doesn't explain why - is Zeder evil and wanting to kill anyone he comes across? Is he craving blood or flesh? It's as if he has a vendetta against said Novelist even though he has never interacted with him.The ending overall is an anti climax.

crww69 Ignore Grade Z,he gave Blair Witch a good rating,any true genre fan didn't even waste their time w/ that dreck.But if yer big into Bava,Argento,Soavi,Baino and the like this film will knock you out.Genuinely creepy in a Very Italian way.American directors just can't get the atomosphere like these guys can.An incredible film that deserves to be Much more widely seen!!!So if Deep Red,Blood and Black Lace,House w/the windows that laughed and Cemetery Man are yer thing,ya gotta check this out!