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*Plot and ending analyzed*
This is a very un-typical horror film which makes it quite refreshing and interesting. For most of the beginning I was quite enthralled by the pacing and the effort of the protagonist to reach some sort of conclusion.
The start of the film shows us a house in Italy in the early 1920's and it is haunted by some horrendous and malicious ghost who has recently killed an old hag, next comes a clairvoyant and a scientist who walk into the basement where the girl clairvoyant assumes the identity of the dead man from a previous life. Once they find the bones of the man, they find a wallet and it reveals that the man was 'Edward Zeder', an albino, lunatic-philosopher who had believed in "Kai-zons", areas which were places where death had no value; this is an ancient idea which stems from the Persians and the Greeks.
Arrive to Italy in the 1970's where a struggling writer who smokes too much is using a typewriter and he finds that the ribbon has some used text upon it, and he types up a few papers from what he deciphers, and has a real mystery upon his hands.
He goes through the usual odds and ends in an attempt to crack the mystery of the "Kai-zons" and he then visits a small village where there is a cemetery and all sorts of weird people.
The end of the film, in which his girlfriend dies and he takes her to a "Kai-zon" to bring her back, is a result from the guilt and lack of his willingness to have loved a living creature while she was alive, and it is quite expected when she eats his neck.
This is a very good film and the director is quite capable of pushing a story of interest along.
For those of you expecting a zombie film, this isn't it. Instead, what we get is a fairly unique horror premise.
*Plot and ending analyzed*
This is a very un-typical horror film which makes it quite refreshing and interesting. For most of the beginning I was quite enthralled by the pacing and the effort of the protagonist to reach some sort of conclusion.
The start of the film shows us a house in Italy in the early 1920's and it is haunted by some horrendous and malicious ghost who has recently killed an old hag, next comes a clairvoyant and a scientist who walk into the basement where the girl clairvoyant assumes the identity of the dead man from a previous life. Once they find the bones of the man, they find a wallet and it reveals that the man was 'Edward Zeder', an albino, lunatic-philosopher who had believed in "Kai-zons", areas which were places where death had no value; this is an ancient idea which stems from the Persians and the Greeks.
Arrive to Italy in the 1970's where a struggling writer who smokes too much is using a typewriter and he finds that the ribbon has some used text upon it, and he types up a few papers from what he deciphers, and has a real mystery upon his hands.
He goes through the usual odds and ends in an attempt to crack the mystery of the "Kai-zons" and he then visits a small village where there is a cemetery and all sorts of weird people.
The end of the film, in which his girlfriend dies and he takes her to a "Kai-zon" to bring her back, is a result from the guilt and lack of his willingness to have loved a living creature while she was alive, and it is quite expected when she eats his neck.
This is a very good film and the director is quite capable of pushing a story of interest along.
For those of you expecting a zombie film, this isn't it. Instead, what we get is a fairly unique horror premise.