Right, well first of all this is an Italian produced zombie movie from 1988, so let's just keep calm shall we? So this is, as to be expected, of course a Lucio Fulci movie."Zombie 3" (aka "Zombi 3") is hardly an outstanding or memorable movie in the zombie genre, and it pretty much sums up everything that is Italian in the zombie genre at that time of date.There is, of course, a very placid and generic storyline. I will say that the story was still enjoyable enough in all of its simplicity, just don't expect to be intellectually challenged by what you watch on the screen. Everything is predictable and you see (and smell) it coming a mile away.The acting in the movie was adequate at best. Don't get your hopes up here, of course. First of all, the movie was shot in The Philippines, and they had a lot of Filipino extras, most of which I doubt were highly-trained actors and actresses. But as for the lead performers, well they were doing adequately enough.The zombie make-up, now that was questionable at best. Well, at least they tried and they did remember to apply make-up and paints to the hands and feet too, whereas many low budget zombie movies, even today, forget to do that after applying it to the face. But even with that feat, then the zombie make-up was bad, and so painfully obviously bad prosthetics.As a zombie afficianado, of course I devour - pardon the pun - every single zombie movie I can find. "Zombie 3" is not an outstanding addition to the genre, nor is it a movie that you will watch more than once.

Claudio Fragasso and Rossella Drudi, our friends who brought Troll 2 to life, were the writing team behind this, setting the film in the Philippines as a cheap and convenient locale. Lucio Fulci claimed that the script was dreadful and that he tried to rewrite most of it, whereas the producers would contend that Fulci's initial cut was a little over an hour yet felt much longer than that. They got Fragasso and Bruno Mattei to finish things up. And we're left. to watch the results.There's this formula called Death One, which brings back the dead. Why anyone would want to create this for the army is beyond me. But Dr. Holder realizes that this is all just a bad idea, so he resigns. As he goes to surrender his findings, criminals attack (if this movie starts to remind you of Nightmare City, you aren't alone) and run away with Death One.That criminal gets infected and even cutting off his own hand - oh that Fulci - can't stop the outbreak. The hotel he ran to is condemned and General Morton orders everyone there killed and the criminal's remains burned by his two right-hand men (played, of course, by Mattei and Fragasso). But just like Return of the Living Dead, the ashes in the air just make things worse. The birds are infected and begin to spread the disease.What follows is a group of victims gets introduced to us and one after another, they are wiped out with pure malice and utter glee. There are some American GI's who mention how horny rock and roll music makes them and the girls on the bus they hook up with. There's a tourist couple, too. No one will be spared when Death One achieves its full power.Everyone heads to the now abandoned resort and is shocked to find so many weapons. As they are killed off, Dr. Holden looks for a cure while General Morton works on killing off every single person and animal he can find.Soon, only five of our heroes - Kenny, Roger, Patricia, Nancy, and Joe - are still alive. As soon as I wrote this down, the soldiers kill Joe. Our survivors make their way to a hospital, where Nancy tries to help a woman deliver a baby - bad news, zombie baby - and gets killed. This scene is packed with the gore that you had hoped that this film would bring. Don't eat while watching, trust me.Who lives? Who dies? You should just buy this and watch it, right? Right. I will say that I loved Blue Heart, the DJ who talks throughout the film and adored how he keeps doing it even after he joins the ranks of the undead. It reminds me a lot of the DJ as narrator scenes in The New York Ripper.I almost forgot! There's an awesome scene where a zombie skull flies out of the freezer and attacks. It wasn't in the script but instead came from Fulci. He would go on to say that it was one of the most clever things he had come up with and the only thing about this film that he was proud of.If you're hoping for the follow-up to Zombi, this isn't it. It's still fun and the last twenty minutes or so really pick up. I'd love to see what happens if they ever did a sequel to this.

I just picked up the Zombie Pack from Shriek Show a couple days ago and watched Zombi 3 (1988) for the first time. I'll admit I'm reasonably easy to impress with a zombie flick because as long as there is some carnage and fun to be had, I'm happy with it. With that said however, this one went beyond just a simple curiosity and might have earned a spot among my favourite zombie flicks.This is the one that was started by Fulci until he dropped out of its production before its completion due to health and possibly creative reasons. I'm sure it could have been much better with him around, but it is still a very fun outing. It has all sorts of different types of zombies in it and some really crazy things go down. A couple highlights (out of many!) for me would be the scene in the garage where the girl gets chased by the super fast, machete wielding zombie. I also loved the infamous floating head scene. This film is just full of unbelievable *beep* that could only have ever been put to film in an old Italian outing.Yes it's cheesy, yes it's dumb, yes it's insane, yes it doesn't always make sense, but damn is it ever entertaining. Sorry for overhyping it for those who haven't seen it as it definitely requires a special type of viewer to enjoy it, but I would recommend it to any seasoned zombie aficionado who is looking for some more obscure oddball outings.

Not really linked to its predecessor zombi 2, a virus outbreak (similar to Return of the Living Dead) causes the dead to rise and the military must stop the contaminated. Trapped in the zone are a few soldiers and civilians that must fight to survive.Although billed as directed by Italian directing maestro Lucio Fulci who supposedly shot approximately 70 minutes of footage, second unit director Bruno Mattei and writer Claudio Fragasso took over and only used 50 minutes of Fulci's footage. On viewing this lovable travesty it is very debatable how much of Fulic's footage really appears. There only appears smudgings of the Italians magic as it feels more like Mattei's Hell of the Living Dead/Night of the Zombies/Zombie Creeping Flesh. Like its follow up, zombi 4 there's talking zombies, jumping undead and zombies that want to fight rather than attack and eat flesh. Also there's two crazy standout scenes, a flying head and a baby zombie birth. It may all sound like fun but it's zombie scenes with the civilians and regular soldiers fighting the government's hazardous white suit army that stand out, sadly not the wacky ones. The zombie gore, blood, make-up and effects are inconsistent, sometimes effective and at other time revealing poor. There's overuse of a fog machine, laughable dialogue especially from the scientists and military personnel. The synthesised soundtrack is great but like the broadcasting DJ ill-fitting at times. As a sequel to Zombie Flesheaters it's below average, meandering from one silly setup to the next but it's still plenty of fun. Zombi 3/Zombie Flesheaters 2 at times is more a virus flick, reminiscent of The Crazies or Nightmare City than Fulics cult film Zombi 2. Overall, with its gooey opening restored despite it's short falls Zombie 3 remains none the less entertaining.