Zombie 3 (1988) on Netflix
A group of scientists at a top secret research center in the Phillippines are experimenting with a chemical compound called 'Death One'. It has the universal property of bringing the dead back to life.
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Plot summary
A group of scientists at a top secret research center in the Phillippines are experimenting with a chemical compound called 'Death One'. It has the universal property of bringing the dead back to life. The military, who are funding the research, are more interested in its capability as a biological weapon for the substance causes tissue mutation and eventual death in living subjects. Professor Alan Holder requests permission to leave the project, but before he can do so, the center is attacked in a commando-style raid. The two attackers, whom are presumably agents of another military power, make off with a box containing samples of 'Death One'. The box is damaged by the pursuers' gunfire and one of the commandos is shot and killed. The other accidentally infects himself by touching the fluid leaking from the case, but manages to escape to a nearby hotel. He checks in and holes up in his room, seriously ill. He is apparently rotting away while still alive, and tries to stem the infection by cutting off his own hand with a machete.
Soldiers, wearing white bio-warfare suits, arrive at the hotel and find the man dead, but in the intern he has infected a bellhop and killed a maid. The head of the military clean-up crew, General Morton (Mike Monty) orders everyone in the hotel and the surrounding area to be rounded up and killed to prevent the infection from spreading. Afterward, General Morton orders the casualties buried in a mass grave.
Cast
- Deborah Bergaminias Lia
- Rene Abadezaas Zombie
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Zombie 3 (1988)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Lucio Fulci left Zombi 3 partway through, and accounts of why differ: one says an illness left him unable to film, another that he was in disputes with the producers.
- In a 2002 interview, Bruno Mattei said he shot about 40% of Zombi 3, including all of its early scenes and those featuring soldiers in white anti-contamination suits.
- Claudio Fragasso said he directed extra scenes between the scientists and General Morton (uncredited Mike Monty) that Bruno Mattei is credited with, but let Mattei take the credit to avoid a later conflict with Lucio Fulci.
- Because the main actors could not be brought back to filming, the new scenes shot by Claudio Fragasso and Bruno Mattei for Zombi 3 were turned into subplots.
- Lucio Fulci called the Zombi 3 script "dreadful" and said he could not get it changed, so he modified it with his daughter.
