Three tourists, an American girl (Sonia Curtis, "The Monster Squad"), her British boyfriend (Keith Van Hoven, 'The House of Clocks'), and her brother (Joe Balogh, "Monstrosity") are enjoying the sights & sounds of Brazil. Trouble brews when the brother, who takes all of the local superstitions & rituals seriously, is invited along to an occult ceremony. Soon thereafter, the resurrected corpses of revenge-minded former slaves start stalking the wilderness, and threatening the lives of our protagonists as well as another couple (Philip Murray (in his only credit) and Brazilian actress Juliana Teixeira ('Story of O, the Series')).
As you can see, this movie is about zombies, not demons, but the film was christened "Demoni 3" in order to make it part of Italy's "Demoni" horror series. While there's very little about it that's particularly interesting, the zombies themselves are pretty cool. The makeup effects are good, but these zombies have no blank expressions on their faces. They understandably look far more angry than your garden-variety zombies. (They don't even do any flesh-munching, really, they're just determined to make their chump victims *suffer*.) There's some memorable, appreciable eye trauma, the kind that would make Lucio Fulci proud, and in fact, "Demoni 3" does end up resembling "Zombi 2" a fair bit.
Most of the acting, as you can expect, is not exactly inspired; these characters that they're playing are pretty standard for the genre. The one performer who really takes this enterprise seriously is the striking Maria Alves as the housekeeper Maria, who realizes the danger and is always frantically trying to deal with the situation. The dialogue can be pretty insipid, but that's par for the course. Best of all is the plentiful atmosphere and the music score by Franco Micalizzi.
Scripted by Olga Pehar, based on a story by director Umberto Lenzi.
Five out of 10.
As you can see, this movie is about zombies, not demons, but the film was christened "Demoni 3" in order to make it part of Italy's "Demoni" horror series. While there's very little about it that's particularly interesting, the zombies themselves are pretty cool. The makeup effects are good, but these zombies have no blank expressions on their faces. They understandably look far more angry than your garden-variety zombies. (They don't even do any flesh-munching, really, they're just determined to make their chump victims *suffer*.) There's some memorable, appreciable eye trauma, the kind that would make Lucio Fulci proud, and in fact, "Demoni 3" does end up resembling "Zombi 2" a fair bit.
Most of the acting, as you can expect, is not exactly inspired; these characters that they're playing are pretty standard for the genre. The one performer who really takes this enterprise seriously is the striking Maria Alves as the housekeeper Maria, who realizes the danger and is always frantically trying to deal with the situation. The dialogue can be pretty insipid, but that's par for the course. Best of all is the plentiful atmosphere and the music score by Franco Micalizzi.
Scripted by Olga Pehar, based on a story by director Umberto Lenzi.
Five out of 10.