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Summary: Didn't Care For It...
Review: Barring a few scenes, this is virtually a remake of George Romero's "Day Of The Dead", which came out 3 years before. Some of the scenes near the end of the film when the zombies predictably have "taken over", I found myself laughing more than cringing; suddenly, the zombies have turned into the living dead equivalent of Bruce Lee and become excellent fistfighters! Some also literally leap up from out of nowhere, such as from haybales, underground bunkers, etc. To me, the very last scene takes the cake for total absurdness...the hip and cool radio DJ "Blueheart" (who himself has turned into a zombie, incidentally) proceeds to play a song for "all the undead all over the world"...how ridiculous!It's said that director Lucio Fulci bowed out of this film either a) due to his declining health b) that he disliked the project. c) all of the above. The latter is probably the most accurate in this case. The liner notes were just about as funny to me as the movie; they go into detail as to how much "restoration" went into this DVD; using Italian negatives, restoring a "missing" scene that was only available on a Japanese version VHS video, and so forth. One thing is certain...all of the restoration in the world won't save a bad film.
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Summary: Was it Something I Missed?
Review: For some reason, the name Lucio Fulci makes me buy many and many a movie. Its something of an addiction really, one that I sometimes love (as with Zombie and House by the Cemetery), sometimes question (as with the movie New Gladiators), and sometimes sigh at as the accumulation gods force me to buy. This movie is one of the latter times, something to throw into that questionmark-bearing rollercoaster ride, with loops and curves hitting various highs and lows that can either evoke startled jumps and enamored looks as gore flashes across the screen or assails with yawns and frowns as the movie makes less and less sense. Then there's also the issue of the movie suddenly deciding to forego that somewhat overrated idea many call a plot altogether and bumble around to keep some characters alive. Its hard to fault Lucio for this problem, though, because he did pull out of the creation of this film before its completion after some storyline disagreements. In fact, the movie had to be finished by someone else altogether, and I had often wondered what these motivational factors were. Well, here's what I discovered.
The beginning of the plot (the part that is coherent):
The movie starts out in the most conventional of fashions. Doctors trying to perfect a bioweapon simply known as Death 1 gruesomely perfect a virus that can animate the dead and decide that the army needs to come in and safely remove a sample of it. On the way to the helicopter, a van full of lab-coat clad terrorists with guns that mysteriously fire sometimes and only make popgun sounds at others, temporarily steal the virus away. It costs all these men save one their lives, however, and the survivor is off with a metallic briefcase full of virus, pursuers in tow that have guns that suffer the same fate as the terrorist's guns did, plus a helicopter added to the fray for good measure. In the ensuing chase some rounds are fired from the sky, the terrorist is hit and the case is dropped and the vial containing the virus is broken. Thus the infection begins.
The terrorist stumbles to a hotel, acquires himself a room and starts making a mess right away. After chopping off his hand for some unexplained reason (the virus originally infected him there, but it was showing everywhere else as well), he kills a bit, awaiting the government's reaction that comes in a swift and brutal fashion. Then, in a Return of the Living Dead manner, the infected body is burned and the atmosphere is infected. Enter our main characters, three army men and a camper full of five individuals, who are accosted by a flock of infected birds and subsequently must stop at the now defunct hotel. Here, they begin to make discoveries, horrid ones, about the fate that has quickly begun to take over the town in the most undead of manners, losing some members of their swollen party in the process. The plot thickens (hemorrhages, is spliced into a movie I somehow missed):
After the killing starts, the movie begins to bumble around. The characters separate and run into the supposed zombies; beasts that sometimes shamble and sometimes run, ones that can use weapons and that hide like amusements inside of a haunted house. They seem frightening enough at first, eating and goring anything in sight, until it is discovered that they have a bit of a flaw. They die really easily. Yes, these mawing machines have a resistance to the atypical sharp/blunt weaponry, but hot lead claws through their ranks o so easily. Well, the plot bumbles some more, a new female character is introduced, and then they ban together for the last half of the movie's plot; fleeing. Still, amidst the fleeing, many things happen that really don't seem to make sense. For instance, a cleanup crew of government men that have been ordered to kill everyone run into two of our main characters and basically get into fisticuffs with them instead of simply mowing them down. Later, when the survivors are trying to escape, one of them yells that they are out of shells and that they'll have to make a run for it. This isn't the case later, however, as his gun seems to replenish itself, making me wonder what has just transpired. (And the list goes on and on) Basically, the beginning of the movie was really entertaining but, at the end, I couldn't fight back the yawning perplexion breeding in my head. If you want to see zombies with paper-thin resistance and some gore, I suppose you could watch it. Still, I'd advise you turn it off at the halfway marker.
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Summary: worst zombie movie ever
Review: For the fans of zombie and horror films in general, avoid this piece of garbage at all costs. Now understand that I am a big horror buff and I wasn't really expecting a great movie when I bought this title but I think I could have bought a video camera and did a better job than these guys did. The story is downright stupid, including everything from bird attacks to zombie babies. It's so bad that I didn't even want to waste the rest of my time watching this film and it doesn't even deserve a place next to my other classic zombie films (dawn of the dead, night of the living dead (new and old) 28 days, Zombie, Etc) Do yourself a favor and avoid this movie and don't make a mistake like I did in buying this piece of garbage. Can't wait however for the special 2 disc version of the original Zombie. Still waiting for my order however. Any scoop on it guys????
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Summary: Average Italian Zombie Film
Review: For those who have not seen an Italian Zombie film, well you are missing out on some of the goriest movies out there. Basically if one is interested in the idea than this is a good place to start. This is actually a little tame (but still more extreme than most american films) but has enough gore to satisfy Gore hounds. The idea behind this little piece of Art is that some scientist are developing a new chemical weapon. When the chopper delivering to another military base is attacked, one of the hijackers is infected with the chemical. He makes a run for it and ends up in a hotel. With in a matter of hours he murders a maid and slowly each person killed becomes a Zombie. Meanwhile some tourist and some military men on leave get caught in the quarenteen zone and will be killed by either the troops or zombies. In the end Zombi 3 features the poor acting that so many italian zombie films feature, but plenty of gore. Once again if you are weak of stomach, do not watch this movie.
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Summary: Terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE!
Review: Great cover art and the fact that it's (allegedly) a sequel to ZOMBIE got me interested in this really, really awful movie. Not even much fun on a cheese level, it's just really pointless and seems like they weren't even trying. There were two worthwhile scenes, 1) one of the lead characters is stuck at some resort building where he falls into a large pool. The air is filled with smoke and several zombies slowly emerge. Kind of creepy, it brought to mind all the directorial talent in ZOMBIE that somehow flew the coop here, and 2) the scene with the zombie head in the fridge that flies out and bites somebody. Hilarious! In fact, that one scene is so funny it's almost worth getting the DVD just for that. Actually, no, nevermind. Terrible!
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Summary: a LUCIO FULCI film
Review: Hello Everyone, I'am a zombie movie fanatic. i love all zombie movies, especially the Italian zombie films because they're much more gorier. I was lucky enough to find this movie in a mama & papa store. I don't think anyone will be able to find rent this movie on VHS unless you live in Europe or Italy. Well anyway, this is a movie that equates itself to all the other Italian horror zombie movies such as Nightmare City, Hell of the Living Dead, Tombs of the Blind Dead, Zombie, the Beyond, City of the Living Dead, Zombie Holocaust, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Burial Ground, and the George A. Romero's films. Part of this movie was directed by LUCIO FULCI and the rest was directed by some other director. Lucio Fulci withdrew from the film because he was dissatisfied with the film. In any case, this was a good film. The only difference is that the zombies in this picture have alot of energy, they move about like regular humans. The movie is not as gory as Lucio Fulci's Zombie film though.
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Summary: great fun euro zombi romp
Review: hey whats wrong with this movie? i got my copy from amazon the other day, put it in my dvd player and boy was i supprised, after all the bad press that this film has gotten over the years i really thought this would be a stinker. after all even the genre mag dark side trashed this film but when i saw it coming to dvd i thought what the hey and put in my preorder, well i can tell you if you watch this expecting another zombie or dawn of the dead or day of the dead you will be disapointed if on the other hand if you watch this expecting a fun zombie romp witch allows you to just have some fun, then you will enjoy this movie. in fact people watching this will pick up on nods to return of the living dead, night of the living dead and dawn of the dead. but the film itself will appeal to people who enjoyed movies like burial ground, zombie holocaust nigtmare city. for anyone who has a chip on their shoulder about the politics of this movie, you know loucio starting the movie and bruno finishing it etc. or anyone who cant take these movies for what they are, a bit of ghoulish fun. all i can say is tough do your homework befrore buying. but people who did enjoy movies like burial ground, zombie holocaust and all the movies like them ,should enjoy this euro gold, (stop calling them trash) its more fun if you are in the right frame of mind than most so called blockbusters and just as intelligent. the dvd itself is a ripper the colours and sound are great and the movie is the exetended version. for a movie of this kind,the extras are realy good as well, and cover the problems with this prodution in detail add in trailers ,photo gallary,and more interviews and you have a great little dvd pakage worthy of any serious buffs horror colletion, give it a go
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Summary: Bad Version of a great Italian Zombie film.
Review: I have nothing to say regarding the film because I know that Italian b-movie fans appreciate it. Others should stay away instead of constantly complaining about how bad this is. I thought it was great, nice gore, nice direction and cinematography, nice atmosphere.
However in Media Blasters' edition, the film is obviously remastered and anamorphic widescreen apart from the gory scenes which must have been mastered from some vhs edition. Why is this? I just feel ripped-off and I no more trust this company which offered us some great discs in the past, such as Lenzi's SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS.
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Summary: God-awful
Review: I ignored the reviews, went ahead and bought it-now I can't wait to auction it off. DVD states it's part of the Lucio Fulci Collection-hardly. Granted there are a couple scenes that are OK-but the other 90 minutes are a waste. Reminded me of those old kung fu movies where they sped up the film to make everything move fast-I can only recommend it if you are into getting home at 4:20.
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Summary: " I usually put in a clever quote from film, but none exist"
Review: I knew I was in trouble when I had to adjust the brightness setting of my (new flatscreen mind you) television just to see the night action!! This film is bad, not good bad like ZOMBI or NIGHTS of TERROR, but BAD bad in a ISHTAR, Kevin Costner is WYATT ERP or ANNE HECHE starring in ...sort of way. It's a ripoff of CRAZIES and DAWN with very little actual shock or gore and NO nudity "SIGH" and lets face it, half the reason these flicks get viewed is to remember the golden 80's before actresses got all uppity and refused to strip down for less than a mill.
HONEST NOW. I love good Italian Horror flicks. The atmosphere and murkiness of films like ZOMBI and BEYOND cannot be duplicated anymore sadly. This film however is just cheap junk after the FULCI scenes are played out and the replacement director takes over the project. And believe me it's very obvious!!!!
ONE POSITIVE THING about the flick! The music is hilariously inappropriate and sounds like the theme to a new Saturday cop drama , kinda like the TJ hooker theme. Come to think of it, this film acted out like more of an adventure series than a horror film. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY < THERE ARE MORE IMPROTANT THINGS IN LIFE TO PURCHASE!!!
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