Directed by:
Pupi AvatiCinematography:
Franco Delli ColliComposer:
Riz OrtolaniCast:
Gabriele Lavia, Anne Canovas, Alex Partexano, John Stacy, Marcello Tusco, Enrico Ardizzone, Giovanni Brusadori, Andrea MontuschiPlots(1)
Stefano, a young journalist, buys a used typewriter and accidentally sees that some text is still readable on the ribbon. He manages to reconstruct the story of a scientist, Paolo Zeder, who in the 1950's discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead that are buried in them. Stefano's investigations bring him in contact with a group of renegade scientists that are still making experiments to prove Zeder's theories. (Code Red)
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Revenge of the Dead is the weakest film I've seen from Pupi Avati, but that's not to say it's bad. Macabre and The House of the Laughing Windows were simply better, although they all share that somewhat strange atmosphere, not outright madness but rather absurdity, and surrealism, which presses onto you, causing uncomfortable feelings that may not be directly horror-related but still have an effect.
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It’s not that I wouldn’t like to be called Pupi Pomo, but these 98 minutes of talking, talking and yet more talking, all in the name of solving a mystery that doesn’t really affect the main characters, were just too much. The horror scenes are done and over with in about three minutes and there’s zero gore. I did enjoy the retro stylization and atmosphere, though. [Sitges FF]
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This is an interesting, stylishly shot movie, but I have to admit that I was quite lost at times, and even after watching it all the way through, I still do not quite get the impression that some parts of the plot are clear to me. Pupi Avati tells a perhaps unnecessarily complicated story with an excess of various characters who are incessantly spinning around the mystery at the heart of this movie, which then just ends with a relatively simple conclusion. However, it is an atmospherically filmed mysterious horror movie, which almost resembles a crime-thriller take on the adaptation of Stephen King's book Pet Sematary, the book which was published in the same year as Zeder, and so both works were probably created independently of each other. There is zero gore on offer here, so fans of bloody Italian horror movies will have to look somewhere else. [Sitges 2019]
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