Zombi 3

Zombi 3 is a sequel in name only to Fulci's classic Zombie. In Italy, Zombie was billed as a unofficial sequel to Dawn Of The Dead and was called Zombi 2 in that territory. Zombie has nothing to do with Dawn Of The Dead and was approached completely differently, but is also a classic. Zombi 3 has little in common with it's predecessor and has a different story that rips off Dawn Of The Dead and Return Of The Living Dead. Zombi 3 is not Lucio Fulci's best work, far from it and the production had a lot of problems. Fulci himself disowned the film and left the production in the middle of it due to health problems and disagreements with the producers. With the combination of a extremely low budget and it's creators not really agreeing on which direction to take the project, what is left is the result. The tone of the film does not feel like a Fulci film and falls flat on terror and atmosphere. The character development is weak and the movie as a whole looks and feels cheap. However, this is far from unwatchable and moves along at a quick pace with a good amount of action and gore. I can't regard Zombi 3 as a good film, it's crap But if ultra cheapie schlocky horror is your bag, you might find some enjoyment out of Zombi 3.

Off the blocks let me just say that I am a huge zombie fan so I don't make statements like the above lightly. Secondly let me say that this is an Italian zombie film and Fulci only directed 15 minutes of it before handing over to Bruno (Rats, Night Of Terror) Mattei. This is no Dawn of the Dead folks.

That said this is easily one of the most entertaining zombie films I have ever seen.

The script is wonderfully horrible. Just check out the two scientists trying to find an antidote ("Let's try putting these two molecules together").

The zombies come in all varieties. From moaning shufflers, to machete wielding maniacs, to birds!

The gore is plentiful. Legs are bitten off, arms amputated, stomachs burst open.

The pace is fast, flying from one zombie attack to the next.

Then there's the head in the fridge. Oh the head in the fridge! One of the greatest moments in horror since Ash got his hand possessed in Evil Dead 2.

You should know already whether you're the sort of person who's going to like this sort of film. Get some mates and some beer and you'll be in for a fun night.

Did I mention the head in the fridge?!?!?

Fulci's horror film about infected people on bersek and causing wreak havoc on a island in the Phillippines . A group of scientists at a top secret research center are experimenting with a chemical compound called 'Death One' and attempting to to obtain an antidote. When a terrorist's body , infected with a robbed chemical , is recovered by the US military, and being cremated , a virus/bacteria is unintentionally released into the atmosphere over the small island. Then the commander-in-chief (Mike Monty) orders to kill all people around. Along the way, three U. S. Army soldiers on holiday from their base , are driving around in their jeep. They are Kenny (Deran Sarafian), Roger (Ottaviano Dell'Acqua as Richard Raymond), and Bo (Massimo Vanni as Alex McBride). The three soldiers meet a group of three young tourists . Soon after , they board themselves up in an abandoned hotel as they attempt to fend off the nimble and aggressive living dead . But they are extremely afflicted by the stalking , vicious and agile flesh-eating stiffs relieved .

This medium-budget terror motion picture deals with a group of soldiers and other unfortunate people who run into a pack of infected populace coming back to life by mutating into flesh-hungry zombies , an astonishing epidemic that reanimates them and while terrorizing an unnamed Philippines island . Gory , eerie , pretty repellent , and ghastly cannibal feast in which violent flesh-eating stiffs , zombies-lookalike cause massacre , destruction , slaughter and gory attacks . This creepy horror movie dealing with an ever-dwindling group including an unrelenting shock-feast laced with an army of Zombies appearance roaming here and there , throughout the countryside , villa, military installations and some people besieged inside a hotel delivering the goods , enough to be interesting . Lucio Fulci's success is regularly directed with startling visual content and atmospheric production design ; furthermore special mention for excellent make-up . This frightening movie is plenty of thrills , chills , high body-count executed by the eerie Zombies and photographed in pallid color with lurid images and scary results . This is a so-so excruciatingly Zombie film where the intrigue, tension , suspense appear threatening and lurking in the sunny outdoors , dark nights and every room , and corridors from a gas station , a house , a van , research facility , power plant , jungle and many other places . At the time considered the plus ultra of thoroughly disturbing movie is less stomach-churning for nowadays's standards , yet its fundamental power to thrill remains undiminished . Watch for the great highlights as skull which flies out of the freezer , the infected birds attacking the passengers on the van and other Fulci's marks who repeats ad nauseum . There're some familar faces of the Italian-B series ,such as : Ottaviano Dell'Acqua , Massimo Vanni , Luciano Pigozzi or Alan Collins nicknamed the Italian Peter Lorre , Robert Marius, Mike Monty , and writer Claudio Fragasso and assistant director Bruno Mattei have brief cameos as soldiers in the crematorium scene . Like many Italian movies filmed at the time and release anyway , most of the actors provided their lines in English language and were then re-dubbed for the international markets .

This genuinely frightening story with correct utilization of images-shock in which the camera stalks in sinister style , being adequately photographed by Ricardo Grasseti on location in CBK Power Company Plant, San Juan, and Pagsanjan, Philippines . Creepie and frightening musical score by Stefano Mainetti , in Goblin style , composed by means of synthesizer . The motion picture was middlingly directed by Lucio Fulci , but he had to leave the shooting , that's why he suffered a heart stroke . Producer Franco Gaudenzi asked second unit director Bruno Mattei and writer Claudio Fragasso to take over the director's chair , both of them stayed in the Philippine Islands at the time filming : Strike Command I and its sequel Strke Command II . Lucio Fulci did not love the storyline for Zombi 3 (1988) which he considered to be "terrible", as he wanted to change it but the producers refused. Italian Lucio Fulci made other good terror films as ¨ From beyond¨ , ¨House by the cemetery¨ and ¨New York ripper ¨ deserving cult status. Critics are divided over both the moral and talents of Fulci (1927-1996), who sometimes directed under the alias Louis Fuller. For some reviewers many of his flicks are extremely cruel and savage , yet their gory surface often concealing social, religious , or provoking commentaries or other thoughful , intelligent issues . Nevertheless , most of them considering his works have undeniably provided a considerable influence on the terror genre , creating decent efforts on low budget flicks . Standing out his ¨Don't Torture a Duckling¨ deemed to be one of his best pictures . In 1979, Fulci's film making career successfully another high point with him, breaking into the international market with ¨Zombi 2¨ (1979), an in-name-only sequel to George A. Romero's Zombi: Night of the Living Dead (1978), which had been released in Italy as 'Zombi'. And his big hit ¨New York Ripper¨ , at the time rated as a video nasty , due to it and why the excessive extra violence was heavily cut or prohibited in a large number of countries . With this film established Fulci as a gore director par excellence . Over the next three years, Fulci plied his trade with finesse and flair-play , rivaling even the popularity of his "opponent" the great Dario Argento, with such sanguine classics as ¨City of the Living Dead¨ (1980) and ¨Beyond¨ (1981). These films, as well as the reviled "New York Ripper" (1982) are actually intelligently crafted, with sound commentaries on everything from American life to religion. In Zombi 3 (1988) he creates a rare Zombie thriller that manages to be both scary and skilfully made , but average . Rating : 4.5/10 : very mediocre , it's just one long unrelenting cannibal feast and average budget horror movie that still packs a punch for those who like to be terrorized out their wits.

From the word go, Zombie Flesheaters 2 (AKA Zombi 3) makes very little sense, but thankfully it's one of those trashy 80s Euro horrors that is so shoddy in virtually every department that one cannot fail to have some fun with it.

Just one look at the film's pedigree is enough to give a pretty good idea of how crap (and therefore how enjoyable) this film actually is: Lucio Fulci, fast approaching his end-of-career worst, directed some of the action before a stroke forced him to hand over the reins to Bruno 'Hell of the Living Dead' Mattei; actor turned TV director Deran Sarafian leads the incredible no-star cast; and Claudio Fragasso, the man responsible for Troll 2 (considered by many to be the worst horror film ever made), provided the derivative, nonsensical plot that gleefully rips off a variety of zombie/infection classics, including Romero's The Crazies and Dan O' Bannon's Return Of The Living Dead.

The cause of the zombie plague in Zombi Flesheaters 2 is a top secret genetically engineered virus called Death One, which is accidentally introduced into the atmosphere after a victim is cremated (on the orders of a contemptuous general, who ignores warnings from concerned army boffins, accusing them of "talking science fiction!"). Pretty soon, the area is not only crawling with flesh hungry reanimated corpses, but also squads of haz-mat suited soldiers who have orders to contain the virus by any means necessary—which isn't exactly great news for the small group of survivors trapped inside the contaminated zone (which, within a single day, has become inexplicably derelict and overgrown with vines!).

Lacking any sense of logic, the film stumbles awkwardly from one daft scene to another in a shambolic manner that makes its mouldy walking corpses seem positively well coordinated in comparison. For connoisseurs of extremely trashy horror, this can only be good news, with the complete absence of rationale resulting in some mind-bogglingly bonkers moments: zombie birds attack a bus full of babes; a severed zombie head, shrouded in an eerie green light and smoke, flies from inside a fridge to chow down on a man's throat; a survivor discovers a box full of weapons in an abandoned building ("I found a crate full of guns downstairs," he casually declares); a lady is attacked by an unborn zombie baby that tears its way from its mother's womb; and a hand grenade, conveniently found under a truck, not only knocks down several of the undead but also destroys an entire building!

Factor in some truly awful acting, unconvincing gore, dreadful direction, zombies that can talk, jump, fight, and use weapons, and a jive-talking radio DJ who joins the ranks of the living dead, but still carries on hosting his show, and what you have is one hell of a mess—but one that really needs to be seen to be believed.

It doesn't really deserve it, but I'll give Zombie Flesheaters 2 a rating of 5/10 just for being a genuine one-of-a-kind experience.

I am an avid fan of Lucio Fulci, and yet I must say that "Zombi 3" (aka. "Zombie Flesh Eaters 2") of 1988, which he made with two other directors, Bruno Mattei and Claudi Fragasso, was quite a disappointment. Especially compared to its great predecessor, Fulci's very own Gore classic "Zombi 2" (aka. "Zombie Felsh Eaters"/"Zombie") of 1979, this is vastly disappointing. Sure, the low rating of 4.5 already suggests that it's not a good film, but, these low ratings usually come from people who are not into Italian Zombie flicks, and as enthusiastic fan of Italian Horror films and low-budget Exploitation cinema, I love many films that have only been rewarded with much lower ratings. Also, many of my fellow Italian Horror buffs seem to think of this film as underrated, which I sadly cannot agree with. Not that the film was a complete disaster. It has some redeeming qualities, above all Fulci's nauseating gore effects, that are always a pleasure to watch for an Italian Horror/Gore buff. The basic idea behind the film is also not bad (allthough far from original) and I liked the ruthless portrayal of the military. Sadly, that's about it. While the great predecessor "Zombi 2" was extremely gory, but beyond that also genuinely creepy, this is not creepy or scary for a minute, and the nauseating and often grotesque gore is the only true reason to watch "Zombi 3". The film is sometimes fun to watch, but only for the gore, and as an unintentional comedy. I guess that it was mainly the gore that came from Fulci, and the disappointing rest that came from Mattei and Fragasso, the first of which was involved in a bunch of nasty cult-flicks (such as D'Amato's "Porno Holocaust"), and the second of which is responsible for one of the worst movies ever made, the god-awful "Troll 2". Overall, this is definitely watchable for the gore, but, out of all Fulci films I've seen so far, this is definitely the worst, and I've seen the majority of this great filmmaker's repertoire. I am a Fulci fan, and I always will be, but this sure isn't his magic moment. It may be fun for the gore, but I recommend to watch any other Fulci film before this!