Nick Zedd

Director · 1958 – 2022 · Baltimore, Maryland

Nick Zedd was an American filmmaker and author based in New York City. He coined the term "Cinema of Transgression" in 1985 to describe a loose-knit group of like-minded filmmakers and artists using shock value and black humor in their work. Zedd directed several super-low-budget movies, including the feature length They Eat Scum and Geek Maggot Bingo, as well as numerous short films.

Movies21

Movie5.8
ComedyFantasy
A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.
Joe's Apartment
1996 · 389 votes
Movie6.0
ComedyHorror
A low-budget film crew working in New York City find themselves being preyed upon by a sexually conflicted serial killer.
Terror Firmer
1999 · 113 votes
Movie1.0
Mystery
Impression X
2023 · 1 votes
Movie4.5
Drama
In a pseudo sci-fi trip of pornographic proportions. In Other People's Mirrors, the camera feels like an extension of the unstable characters it is following, taking on a near-home-movie style documentation of street performance and improvised art. It centers around the journey of Echo Transgression, a schizophrenic sex addict, who believes that if she follows the instructions being transmitted directly into her spine, then she will escape to her own version of nirvana. Underground legend Nick Zedd plays the alien phantom of Narcissus, a secret agent who makes sure she stays on course.
Other People's Mirrors
2004 · 4 votes
Movie2.8
ComedyDrama
A young hipster wannabe-superstar dj, Phil, takes on a day job at a telemarketing company, working with crazy people, ex-prisoners, drug addicts and murderers. The time on his life begins to tick as he battles addiction, fights the law and tries to maintain the only sane thing left in his life, his girlfriend, Christine.
Scumbag
2017 · 4 votes
Movie6.4
Documentary
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.
Jonas in the Desert
1994 · 5 votes
Movie8.0
Documentary
A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow film-makers. The life and death of the actor Divine is also discussed.
In Bad Taste
1999 · 11 votes
Movie5.0
HorrorMusic
Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death.
Submit to Me Now
1987 · 20 votes
Movie6.9
Documentary
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.
Blank City
2011 · 19 votes
Movie6.7
Documentary
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist. Widely known for his banned queer erotica film Flaming Creatures, Smith was an innovator and firebrand who influenced artists such as Andy Warhol and John Waters.
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007 · 10 votes
Movie4.1
HorrorAction
In search of his sister, a renegade criminal seeks answers at a sordid hotel where he encounters a sinister guest and romances a mysterious waitress.
Fuego negro
Dark Forces
2020 · 41 votes
Movie5.3
Drama
Zedd plays D.B. Shane, a dead star who visits a fan in her dreams, kisses her then kills her.
Kiss Me Goodbye
1986 · 4 votes
Movie7.7
Documentary
A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death in 2001. Rockets was the sometimes bodyguard/drug dealer of Sid Vicious and Jean Michel Basquiat, as well as a talented stand-up comic and character actor who left his indelible mark wherever he went. This film chronicles Rockets' last days, hunting for methadone in Puerto Rico and telling stories from his past.
Rockets Redglare!
2003 · 3 votes
Movie5.2
Horror
Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director Richard Kern's camera. Originally created for DTNY acid parties; Submit to Me was eventually edited down to 10 minutes and given an accompanying score.
Submit to Me
1985 · 25 votes
Movie6.7
Documentary
A docu-comedy feature film about a once-famous millionaire "business artist" forced to confront his own legendarily obnoxious behavior, while trying to find love through fame.
Con Artist
2010 · 5 votes
Movie10.0
DramaHorror
Paul Mills is a miserable, lonely man leading a meaningless existence in a nameless city and has visions of the Spirit of Death waiting to collect him while having encounters with various people while seeking solace for his short life knowing it will end soon. Shadows in the City was the last major work of New York’s 1980s No Wave film scene. Shot over seven years in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, painter-performer Ari Roussimoff’s only fiction feature captures the urban desolation of the city in the decade before gentrification.
Shadows in the City
1991 · 1 votes
Movie
ComedyHorror
In the unsettling, absurdist SIMONLAND, a grotesque, televangelist-style demagogue leads his studio audience and isolated viewers through a psychotic game of Simon Says with twisted results.
Simonland
1984
Movie4.6
DocumentaryMusic
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
Llik Your Idols
2007 · 7 votes
Movie5.0
Drama
A junkie wakes up on the streets and walks around, seeing a woman dressed in all white and a heroin addict shooting up.
Go to Hell
1986 · 7 votes
Movie4.7
Drama
After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York.
What About Me
1993 · 9 votes
Movie
Drama
A 16mm narrative short shot in New York with Nick Zedd and Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn.
Bubblegum
1996