Flying Zombie Heads and Other Things

I'm sure that you're saying that there is a safe country from the zombie epidemic, that there is no possible way that zombies can surface in certain places in the world. Well, that is where you are wrong, and as Zombi 3 shows, it can happen anywhere. Okay, so that point was "proven" already with Hell of the Living Dead, but that movie was really shot in Spain and not where the movie claims to have taken place.

Zombi 3 takes place in the Philippines and begins in a science lab, where some scientists are experimenting with something called the Death One virus. Now, stop and tell me if this sounds familiar to you. Yes, this movie is ripping off Hell of the Living Dead, which should figure to some degree, since the guy who directed the Dawn of the Dead ripoff Bruno Mattei, also had a hand in Zombi 3. Before I go any further, it should be noted that the movie began as a Lucio Fulci film, but he left halfway through and Mattei finished the directing responsibilities, though the official directing credits go to Fulci. Back to the story, the experiment goes awry, the scientists head to the waiting vehicle with the virus secured inside a case, only to be met by some eco terrorists, and one of them runs off with the case. During the chase, the case gets shot, the man who had the case gets infected by the virus, and he begins to look worse before dying, but not before biting one of the bell boys and killing a maid at a hotel in which he took refuge. The army finds him, burns him, and the result is that it releases the virus into the air. Long story short, it affects the birds, which will affect the people who are central to the story.

Now, for the good, bad, and ugly of the movie. First, the good: the flying zombie head that attacks one of the people that were in the party van and the zombie baby that attacks a woman who was also part of that convoy. The bad: zombies should not be able to speak in complete sentences, let alone, in a coherent manner when it is clearly established that said infected person is a zombie. Also, zombies should not be able to move fast...at all. Period. The ugly: the makeup that is used on the zombies in the making of the film. To clarify, that is also a good thing, since it shows a marked improvement from the early days of zombie movies.

Zombi 3 commits a lot of sins when it comes to the "rules of zombie movies," which for the most part, equals disaster. Some comedy relief comes in the form of the radio DJ, who provides a smooth voice to the chaos within the movie, as well as some social commentary on the environment. Logic flies out the window with regularity for no reason on Zombi 3, so those who expect even the slightest hint of such an idea should stay far away from this movie.