Demoni 3 (1991)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Umberto Lenzi

Writers:

Umberto Lenzi (story)
Olga Pehar (screenplay)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

They will tear, rip, and bite anyone in their path of vengeance.

Plot:

Three college students, another couple, their housekeeper are besieged at a remote Brazilian plantation by a group of zombies raised by a voodoo curse.

Plot Keywords:

Plantation | Voodoo | Jeep | Brazil | Jungle

Cast

Keith Van Hoven	...	Kevin
Joe Balogh	...	Dick
Sonia Curtis	...	Jessica
Philip Murray	...	Jose
Juliana Teixeira	...	Sonia
Maria Alves	...	Maria
Cléa Simões	...	Wetnurse
Justo Silva	...	Witchdoctor
Rita Monteiro	...	Mucuma Dancer
Felix Lorival	...	Zombie
Paul R. Goodman	...	Zombie
Tony Martins	...	Zombie
Gleis J. Pereira	...	Zombie
Sérgio Costa Andrade	...	Zombie (as Sergio Costa)
Louis Karlson	...	Zombie
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Domiziano Arcangeli	...	Little Boy (uncredited)

Directed by
Umberto Lenzi

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Umberto Lenzi		story
Olga Pehar		screenplay

Produced by
Giuseppe Gargiulo	....	producer

Original Music by
Franco Micalizzi

Cinematography by
Maurizio Dell'Orco

Film Editing by
Vanio Amici

Casting by
Werner Pochath		(as Paul Werner)

Production Design by
Guliana Bertuzzi		(as Giuliana Bertozzi)

Art Direction by
Michele Massimo Tarantini		(as Michael E. Lemick)

Costume Design by
Olga Pehar		(as Olga Lenzi)

Makeup Department
Franco Casagni	....	special makeup effects artist
Pat Pantanella	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Maria Luiza Lorette Dubini	....	unit manager (as Maria Luiza Dubini)
Fabrizio Gargiulo	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Franco Fantasia	....	assistant director (as Frank Farrell)

Sound Department
Gianni D'Amico	....	sound re-recording mixer
Daniel M. Elmor	....	special sound effects
Marius Grant	....	special sound effects
Piero Parisi	....	sound

Special Effects by
Serge Farjala	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Hugh Carrera	....	optical special effects
Franco Casagni	....	special visual effects

Stunts
Perry Caputo	....	stunts
Mark Carradine Jr.	....	stunt coordinator
Lilly Maldovans	....	stunts
Lily Maldovans	....	stunts
Tom Maldovans	....	stunts
Willy Rossen	....	stunts
Mike Ruiz	....	stunts
Mark Rutz	....	stunts
Rody F. Whitman	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Hector Bravo	....	grip
Jerry Cooper	....	second assistant camera
Cesar Duarte	....	still photographer
Jimmy Duarte	....	camera operator
Edmund Fuller	....	electrician
Umberto Lenzi	....	camera operator (as Humphrey Logan)
Paul Little Roy	....	electrician
Humbert Macostini	....	key grip
Mike Pellegrini	....	best boy
César Pina Duarte	....	still photographer (as Cesar Duarte)
Carl Rogers	....	gaffer
Danny Ross	....	electrician
Alexander Silas	....	grip
Robert C. Souza	....	assistant camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Anita Gonsalvez Ruiz	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
Carola Blisset	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Jean Carl Boringer	....	location manager
Oscar Claudio	....	production coordinator
Luiz De Carvalho	....	production assistant
Rita Di Giamberardino	....	production coordinator
Michela Maxson	....	production secretary
Stefania Palma	....	jewels
Olga Pehar	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Filmakers S.r.l.

Distributors

• DomoVideo (Portugal) (video)
• Shriek Show (2003) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Black Demons (USA)
Black Zombies

Runtime:

88 min | Germany:84 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:Unrated | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Finland:K-18

Filming Locations:

Brazil

Company:

Filmakers S.r.l.

Movie Connections:

Follows Dèmoni (1985)

Great for being made late

Although, even if it had been made in 1980, I would still consider it a very good movie. Lenzi manages perfectly to capture the feeling of the worst of the b-movies (which in my world means the best); a sense of the director being completely uninterested in the script; just making the movie because he has to, or working off an idea which he thought was interesting for one day and then just continuing for the sake of it.

The acting and the plot are uninteresting and unimportant. What is interesting is the zombies and the special effects. I don't think I've ever seen real afro-american zombies before, so this was a new exciting thing. They look really frightening and extreme, especially one of them. The deaths in the movie are quite gruesome. I give the movie 9 out of 10 points, for being such a nostalgic shot from the hip. The thing that prevents me from giving it a 10 is that the scenes of dialogue have no charm - and that's because it's from 1991...so no funny men in funny moustaches who say hilarious things.