Zombi 3!

It's been years since I watched this, so I felt a need to dust off the dvd, and I'm glad I did. This movie was a blast. Basically the culmination of Italian zombie movies. It's as if Fulci actually understood the genre for a change, and he understood it perfectly!

This movie wastes no time getting started. We have an outbreak after a sabateur steals a military virus, spreads the love at a nearby resort, and bam! Zombies galore.

What surprised me is how competent this movie was. Some of the scenes were pretty intense. Freaky even, like the gas station zombie in the beginning and how fast he was moving while swinging a machete at the girl. The zombies in this movie aren't predictable. Some shamble, some flail about, and some of them give us good fight scenes and nice kills made even better by the movie's groovy score.

Those fight scenes were pretty great actually. Our protagonists include a few military guys who have scenes where they alone must survive and escape the horde, and since they're not complete dumbasses, you might actually find yourself rooting for them. And even then, they sometimes get overrun, because the zombies in this movie are some volatile bastards.

Not only is this movie action packed, but there's loads of fog and atmosphere. The plot isn't original at this point, but it pulls from all the best sources: Romero's Dead trilogy, The Crazies, Nightmare City, and Return of the Living Dead. There was a good effort in getting the right vibes for some of these scenes, and that struck such a chord with me that, dare I say, this is top-10 zombie material, better than Zombi 2, and probably Fulci's most entertaining movie ever.

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