Editing Nick Zedd (section)

== Legacy ==
Founder of the Cinema of Transgression movement and part of the late 1970s and early 1980s [[No wave cinema|No Wave]] group of underground filmmakers in New York City’s [[Lower East Side]], Zedd exerted a significant influence over a number of directors, from [[Christoph Schlingensief]] to [[Quentin Tarantino]]. The latter paid tribute to him in his [[Palme d'Or]]-winning film, ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' (1994), naming the main antagonist of the "Gold Watch" chapter Zed [''sic''].

The Canadian electronic music duo [[Zeds Dead]] took their name from the famous dialogue between Butch Coolidge ([[Bruce Willis]]) and Fabienne ([[Maria de Medeiros]]) in Tarantino's film, where he reveals to her that "Zed's dead".

Legendary cult filmmaker [[John Waters]], who was as much a fan of Zedd's lurid and provocative style, as Zedd was of his camp classics, like ''[[Pink Flamingos]]'', wrote: "Nick Zedd makes violent, perverted art films from Hell—he’s my kind of director!",<ref>{{cite news|access-date=November 4, 2024|title=NICK ZEDD (1958–2022)|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/nick-zedd-1958-2022-88031|work=[[Artforum]]}}</ref> and he considered the title of his debut film, ''They Eat Scum'', as his favorite in cinema history.<ref name="thevillagesun.com"/> Similarly, fellow-East Village independent filmmaker [[Jim Jarmusch]] said that "Nick Zedd’s films are legendary — he is a truly seminal figure in the New York underground".<ref>{{cite web|access-date=November 4, 2024|date=April 18, 2022|title=Interview with Controversial Artist, Filmmaker, and Writer Nick Zedd including his Manifesto|url=https://tamralucid.medium.com/interview-with-controversial-artist-filmmaker-and-writer-nick-zedd-f78eeacb3268|newspaper=Medium}}</ref>