Director: Pupi Avati
Cast: Gabriele Lavia, Marcello Tusco, Bob Tonelli, Anne Canovas, Cesare Barbetti,
Plot: A young journalist buys a used typewriter and notices some text still legible on the ribbon; he reconstructs the story of a scientist who discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead.
Re-evaluating Italian horrors on Blu-ray from 88 Films
Collector’s Editions from 88 Films provide an opportunity to re-evaluate two familiar Italian horror movies. My opinion of Pupi Avati’s creepy Zeder (1983), always favourable, has been confirmed, while I now have a new appreciation of […]
Ghosts Good and Bad
Two Italian classics – Mario Bava’s Kill, Baby … Kill! (1966) and Pupi Avati’s Zeder (1983) – and an imaginative new movie – David Lowery’s A Ghost Story (2017) – offer differing thematic takes on […]