{"id":29747,"date":"2019-10-16T00:05:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T04:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=29747"},"modified":"2019-09-28T21:17:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T01:17:51","slug":"zombi-3-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/16\/zombi-3-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombi 3 (1988)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So \u201cZombi 3\u201d is technically \u201cZombi 2\u201d while \u201cZombi 2\u201d is technically \u201cZombi\u201d if you cut out \u201cDawn of the Dead\u201d which was renamed \u201cZombi.\u201d It\u2019s a confusing rabbit hole that goes so deep, you\u2019ll pass out from the confusion. In either case, Bruno Mattei\u2019s (Lucio Fulci\u2019s? Claudio Fragrasso\u2019s?) \u201cZombi 3\u201d is one of those so bad it\u2019s good zombie films that I didn\u2019t hate. Maybe it\u2019s because I didn\u2019t have a history with it, but I kind of loved how aimless \u201cZombi 3\u201d was with its zero plot, paper thin characters and the way it meanders back and forth.<\/p>\n

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Some science people are experimenting on a random Caribbean jungle island with a new serum called Death One. Death One has the ability to re-animate the dead, but not as normal people, but as flesh eating ghouls. When a military raid allows one of the subjects to escape with a container of Death One, he\u2019s infected and transforms in to an undead ghoul. In an effort to stop his carnage, he is stopped and his corpse, burned, but his ashes turn in to a dead cloud blanketing the island and infecting the denizens in to the walking dead. Meanwhile a group of GI\u2019s and a small group of tourists band together to fight their way off of the island to safety. Now they must contend with zombies, the elements, and a group of armed soldiers in hazmat suits murdering everyone in sight by order of the government.<\/p>\n

If you loved \u201cThe Crazies,\u201d \u201cReturn of the Living Dead,\u201d \u201cDawn of the Dead,\u201d \u201cDay of the Dead,\u201d \u201cZombi,\u201d \u201cRabid,\u201d \u201cVanishing Point,\u201d \u201cRambo,\u201d and \u201cNightmare City,\u201d you\u2019ll love \u201cZombi 3\u201d as it rips them off liberally. Which is not to say that \u201cZombi 3\u201d doesn\u2019t offer up its own share of spooks, as there are a slew of fun, creepy scenes teeming with flesh eating zombies. One of the better ones involves the group of Italian commandoes watching over a hotel, as they\u2019re slowly bombarded with the dead. There\u2019s also a tense moment on a bridge that injects claustrophobia quite well. I was never quite sure what kind of zombies \u201cZombi 3\u201d was as the rules set for the ghouls here are often fast and loose. Sometimes they run, sometimes they creep up on the victims. Sometimes they can speak and communicate, and other times they just shamble around.<\/p>\n

Sometimes they can hang from ceilings and drop from roofs like cats, and other times they\u2019re stumbling down stairs. In the end, we also find out that they\u2019re cognizant enough to run a radio station and dedicate music to one another. No, seriously! There\u2019s also a ton of muscle bound commandoes engaging in martial arts with zombies, and the most memorable scene involving an infected patient giving birth. \u201cZombi 3\u201d excels in its vague narrative, and its lack of information and exposition becomes null once you get past the tenth shoot out, and zombie invasion. \u201cZombi 3\u201d is the wacky, weird brother to \u201cZombi 2\u201d and \u201cZombi\u201d and if you\u2019re up for some yuks and good old one on one fights with the walking, oozing dead, you\u2019ll have as good a time as I did. It\u2019s not many zombie movies that end on an upbeat eighties rock tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So \u201cZombi 3\u201d is technically \u201cZombi 2\u201d while \u201cZombi 2\u201d is technically \u201cZombi\u201d if you cut out \u201cDawn of the Dead\u201d which was renamed \u201cZombi.\u201d It\u2019s a confusing rabbit hole that goes so deep, you\u2019ll pass out from the confusion. In either case, Bruno Mattei\u2019s (Lucio Fulci\u2019s? Claudio Fragrasso\u2019s?) \u201cZombi 3\u201d is one of those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[58,71,367,477,922,1012,1087,1219,1221],"class_list":["post-29747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-sequel","tag-survival","tag-thriller","tag-zombie-apocalypse","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29749,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29747\/revisions\/29749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}