Black zombies

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Movie
German title Black zombies
Original title Demoni 3
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1991
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Umberto Lenzi
script Olga Pehar
Umberto Lenzi
production Giuseppe Gargiulo
music Franco Micalizzi
camera Maurizio Dell'Orco
cut Vanio Amici
occupation

Black Zombies (Original title: Demoni 3 ) is an Italian horror film from 1991 by director Umberto Lenzi . Lenzi wrote the script together with his wife Olga Pehar .

action

The three students Kevin, Jessica and their superstitious, psychologically unstable half-brother Dick travel to the South American continent on behalf of a record company to record rare samba rhythms. During a stay in Brazil, the reckless Dick, who has a passion for the occult , attended a ritual voodoo evocation ceremony, which he secretly recorded with a tape. In this way he unwittingly becomes an instrument of evil. During the celebrations of the ancient, mysterious Macumba cult, the young man sees eerie things before he wakes up in his hotel room with an amulet on. Since then, the obsessed Dick has suffered from general malaise.

The next day, the three tourists set off on a journey of several hours towards Belo Horizonte , but after a long journey they end up with a technical defect in their off-road vehicle. A few moments later, José, who appears by chance, crosses their path with his girlfriend Sonia. Helpful, the local couple offers the trio their leased, legendary hacienda , a former coffee plantation, as a night camp, which is also gratefully accepted. On entering the remote farm, Dick is greeted with suspicious looks by the Afro-Brazilian housekeeper Maria, who believes she sees something ominous in him - a willless instrument of black magic .

The following night, the apathetic Dick sneaks out of the house to examine his recording. Unfortunately, in the cemetery in the middle of the jungle he plays the tape, which resurrects six former plantation slaves who were tortured to death and who were killed and buried here. From then on, the residents of the house are harassed by the tortured undead , who want to take bloody revenge on six white tormentors. First they brutally kill the unsuspecting Sonia, followed by the shady Maria, who previously tried in vain to drive away the evil. When José is injured by a living corpse, sightings of the partly armed figures increase. The enlightened group initially doubts the existence of such creatures, but soon fights for bare survival.

Jessica registers at different times that Dick is possessed by an evil power that even turns him into the willless murderer of Jose. After the number of the living decimated further, Kevin plans to take action against the monsters with simple incendiary sentences and not to surrender to fate without a fight. At the end of the film, Dick comes to the aid of his sister who is harassed by the slaves. He was fatally injured in a scuffle and all fighting came to a standstill. Kevin and Jessica leave the crime scene and head back to civilization.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a “ late straggler of the zombie horror films of the 70s, who, like its predecessors, only wanted to produce quickly and cheaply, sometimes drastic thrills. “In addition, the mass product is not interested in “ the authentic cults of South American Afro-Americans ”or“ in a plausible story and dramaturgy ”.

The German program magazine TV Spielfilm sums it up in its online edition that “ the horror story 'animated' with voodoo, the Macumba cult and embarrassing clichés is a cinematic stillbirth to be expected from Umberto Lenzi ” that “ misuses exotic rituals for horror effects ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Black Zombies. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ cf. http://www.tvspielfilm.de/filmlexikon?type=filmdetail&film_id=5154 accessed on February 18, 2008