Verdict
Summary
A fast paced action film with some strange looking, melting zombies, Zombie 3 (which is supposed to follow Lucio Fulci’s Zombie) has some whacked out ideas and scenes in it, including a flying zombie head, and zombies who alternate being fast paced, agile pursuers, to slow movie, gloppy indistinguishables.
Plot:
A top-secret lab experiment gets out into the wilds of the Philippine jungle, causing the entire area to become a hot bed of gut munching activity!
Review:
Some careless scientists working diligently in a lab located in the middle of a Philippine jungle accidentally unleash a flesh eating disease known as Death-1. When an infected scientist checks into a resort hotel for the night (as his hand is beginning to rot before his very eyes), he becomes the catalyst for ground zero, as he soon becomes a gloppy, oozing mess of human stink pile. The poor room service attendant cuts his finger on a glass the infected scientist drank out of and he, in turn, passes it along, etc. The military mobilizes their troops (who look like Sardaukar warriors from Dune, but in white instead of black) and intends on killing every civilian in the immediate vicinity and dumping them all in a mass grave to quell the outbreak. It’s up to two dude bro’s stationed on the American Army base to gather their wits, save a stranded pretty girl, and make it to a helicopter before the shnazz hits the fan.
A fast paced action film with some strange looking, melting zombies, Zombie 3 (which is supposed to follow Lucio Fulci’s Zombie) has some whacked out ideas and scenes in it, including a flying zombie head, and zombies who alternate being fast paced, agile pursuers, to slow movie, gloppy indistinguishables. The movie is shrouded in mist and fog, but it doesn’t stop to create a mood, so eerie tints of green or red mist only mystifies. Lucio Fulci directed most of it, while Bruno Mattei and Claudio Fragasso mopped it up when Fulci became ill during production. In this one, we see that zombies can go down with body shots, and also we see that birds can become infected, which is unusual.
Severin’s Blu-ray release comes in a limited to 3000 edition, which includes the soundtrack CD, and special features include a bunch of on-camera interviews, a commentary by two of the lead actors, and the trailer. This release presents a 2K scan of the uncut version for the first time in America.
