Zombi 3 (1988)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Lucio Fulci
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Writers:

Claudio Fragasso (screenplay)
Claudio Fragasso (story)
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Release Date:

29 July 1988 (Italy)

Genre:

Horror | Action

Plot:

When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated...

Plot Keywords:

Hotel | Military | Massacre | Splatter | Impalement

Cast

Deran Sarafian	...	Ken
Beatrice Ring	...	Patricia
Ottaviano Dell'Acqua	...	Roger (as Richard Raymond)
Massimo Vanni	...	Bo (as Alex McBride)
Ulli Reinthaler	...	Nancy
Marina Loi	...	Carole
Deborah Bergamini	...	Lia
Luciano Pigozzi	...	Plant Director (scenes deleted) (as Alan Collins)
Mike Monty	...	General Morton
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rene Abadeza	...	Zombie (uncredited)
Mari Catotiengo	...	Suzanna (uncredited)
Claudio Fragasso	...	Soldier at creamatorum (uncredited)
Robert Marius	...	Doctor Holder (uncredited)
Bruno Mattei	...	Soldier at creamatorum (uncredited)
Ted Rusoff	...	General Morton (voice: English version) (uncredited)

Directed by
Lucio Fulci
Claudio Fragasso		(uncredited)
Bruno Mattei		(uncredited)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Rossella Drudi		screenplay (uncredited)
Rossella Drudi		story (uncredited)
Claudio Fragasso		screenplay
Claudio Fragasso		story

Produced by
Franco Gaudenzi	....	producer

Original Music by
Stefano Mainetti

Cinematography by
Richard Grassetti		(as Riccardo Grassetti)

Film Editing by
Alberto Moriani

Art Direction by
Mimmo Scavia		(as Bart Scavia)

Makeup Department
Franco Di Girolamo	....	chief makeup artist

Production Management
Rick Hasserot	....	production supervisor (as Manrico Passerotti)
Giovanni Paolucci	....	production manager
Luciano Pigozzi	....	assistant production manager

Art Department
Antonio Arcai	....	props
Giuseppe Carrozza	....	props
Vic Dabao	....	art director: Philippines

Sound Department
Tullio Arcangeli	....	sound effects editor
John Gayford	....	dialog editor
Sotir Gjika	....	sound effects editor (as Gjika Sotir)
Bruno Moreal	....	sound mixer
Roberto Sterbini	....	sound effects editor

Special Effects by
Franco Di Girolamo	....	special effects makeup
Rodolfo Torrente	....	special effects

Stunts
Dante Abadeza	....	assistant stunt coordinator (as Dante Abadessa)
Ottaviano Dell'Acqua	....	stunt coordinator
Massimo Vanni	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Carlo Cascioli	....	key grip (as Charles Kascioff)
Victorio Cessari	....	key grip (as Alvit Hessar)
Umberto Chessari	....	gaffer (as Bart Hessar)
Luigi Ciccarese	....	camera operator
Mauro Di Croce	....	assistant camera (as Ruben Hundit)
Fred Maequez	....	key grip: Philippines (as Fred Marquez)
Raul Filippo Mattei	....	assistant camera (as Raul Matthews)
Mario Ponce	....	gaffer: Philippines

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Eddy De Guzman	....	tailor
Julie De Guzman	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
Lorenzo Costantini	....	first assistant editor (as Lorenz Costanth)
Cinzia Mattei	....	second assistant editor (as Cinthia Matthews)

Other crew
Angelo Cavallo	....	production secretary (as Angel Valli)
Camilla Fulci	....	continuity (as Mily Fulci)
Liliana Ginanneschi	....	continuity (as Liliane Hann)
Stefano Mafera	....	titles
Maria Spera	....	accountant (as Mary Hope)
Edgard Taino	....	assistant location manager: Philippines
Rolando Taino	....	location manager: Philippines

Production Companies

• Flora Film

Distributors

• Media Blasters (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Beam Entertainment (Japan) (DVD producer)
• Creative Axa Co. Ltd. (Japan) (DVD)
• Delta Vidéo Diffusion (1989) (France) (VHS)
• Media Blasters (USA) (VHS)
• Midnight Video (????) (USA) (VHS)
• SBP (Argentina) (DVD)
• SBP (Argentina) (VHS)
• Shriek Show (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Video Instant Picture Company (VIPCO)
• X-Rated Kultvideo (Germany) (VHS)

Also Known As:

Zombie Flesh Eaters 2 (UK) (video title)

MPAA:

Rated R for horror violence and gore, and brief language.

Runtime:

95 min | Argentina:87 min | Germany:85 min | USA:84 min | Germany:72 min (heavily cut)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Germany:16 (heavily cut) | Germany:(Banned) | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Norway:18 (uncut) (2008) | Italy:VM18 (alternate rating) | Argentina:13 | Italy:VM14 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18 | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Los Baños, Laguna, Luzon, Philippines

Company:

Flora Film

Trivia:

In an early scene on the bus, Carole can be seen reading a copy of "Gone With The Wind".

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: When the group arrive outside the abandoned military hospital, a crew member is visible to the left behind a house turning on a smoke machine.

Quotes:

Glenn: I'm feeling better, Patricia, but I'm thirsty... for your blood!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Soundtrack:

Tumble Down

Terrorists steal a bio-weapon. It mutates and causes an epidemic. The army tries to destroy the resulting zombies while scientists try to develop a treatment.

I love zombie movies - "the dead" is a term I prefer ... because I respect the whole idea! But this movie does not respect anything - the dead, the horror genre, the audience, reason - anything!!! It is an insult to horror movies, to "the dead" (who are incredibly athletic in this movie), and to the greatest willingness possible on the part of the loyal "dead"-devoted audience member to suspend disbelief. Suspend disbelief??? In this movie? It is just not possible! They didn't even try!

So many people have described the stupidity of this movie in sufficient detail before me so I will comment without spoilers. The inconsistencies in the behaviour of the zombies in this movie have not been fully exposed - the zombies (I will call them "zombies" - they are more like energized guerrilla fighters) - appear to be of several different types. There are, most noticeably, the energized, super strong, athletic variety, but there are also a great many of the exceptionally slow moving uncomprehending slothful variety that remind me of the medieval infantry assault in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" where the attackers never get any closer for a really long time, and then SUDDENLY they are upon you! The zombies of the different varieties also conform to the "birds of a feather flock together" principle - perhaps the different groups of zombies were under the direction of different film directors! (Has anyone else considered this as the possible cause of this strange anomaly that characterizes this film?)

As others have mentioned, the characterization is very poor to non-existent after the opening scene. The setting and cast is a combination of the Philippines and Europe, which is confusing - a kind of situation where weird things that aren't even logical in terms of the plot itself are happening in a place and to people you just can't put your finger on. And all hell breaks loose! Is this guerrilla warfare or a "dead" movie? It is so action-packed I was never quite sure if there wasn't actually some jungle war going on all the time - like Vietnam - and maybe the soldiers were turning into zombies and continuing to fight in that form. It was quite mystifying on all counts.

If it hadn't been a dead movie I wouldn't have cared. It is the most incredibly badly made dead movie I can imagine ever being made ... and I wonder what was in the minds of the people who made it? As a zombie movie it is a dead duck! It was a very big disappointment after seeing Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2! I am extremely reluctant to give a zombie movie an "awful" one out of ten - as someone else has already pointed out, there are movies like musicals, Doris Day and "Gone With the Wind" that I would then have to rate as equal to this "dead" movie - any dead movie should be better than a Doris Day movie. But then I would never review a Doris Day movie. One thing is certain, though - DON'T bother watching this movie ...unless, plausibly, you chose to do so with the intention of seeing it as a bizarre dream-like comedy... Perhaps it COULD be a comedy? Who knows?!

I'm giving it a "1" anyway?! (How could I not?!) It is just so BADLY awful!!!