'Zombie Flesh Eaters 3' aka 'After Death' (1989) - Claudio Fragasso.
Much like Umberto Lenzi's equally maligned Haitian Voodoo-inspired 'Black Demons', schlock supremo Claudio 'Troll 2' Fragasso's gory, bullet-shredded zombie cannibal-crazed chow-down is far more entertaining than its middling, lukewarm reputation might suggest it to be. After an especially thrilling intro, replete with a green-slime drooling, Lamberto Bava-esque demon being invoked, and screamingly dragged back into some fiery subterranean hell, Fragasso's remarkably unhinged, volcanic island-set splatter-headed shocker delivers terror thrills, and wickedly splattery Zombie kills with laudable alacrity. Upon this savagely sulphurous, oppressively humid locale, a team of 'scientists' featuring hard-bodied adult film star Jeff Stryker, legendary Italian stuntman (Ottaviano Dell'Acqua), and a group of bellicose 'Zombie Creeping Flesh' style mercenaries accompany the beautiful Candice Daly to this benighted Island hothouse whereupon the 'scientists' misguidedly quote forbidden passages from 'The Book of The dead', thereby immediately drawing the grossly unwanted attention of a mouldering multitude of mush-headed, darkly shrouded, fast-moving, gore-guzzling ghouls, who in the time honoured horror trope sinisterly surround our beleaguered protagonists which gorily heralds a fabulously gruesome siege, ending in a ferociously fatalistic climax, enlivened by a fantastically doomy, pulse-rousingly exciting synth score by maestro Al Festa, with the relentless, generously blood-squibbed Zombie slaughter being expressed by some appropriately apocalyptic 'acting'. Claudio Fragasso's volcanically villainous, Voodoo-Island splatter insanity 'After Death' is not only a gruesomely rampaging, terrifically trashy zombie gut spiller, but acts as a cautionary tale over the myriad dangers inherent of so recklessly reanimating a flesh-craving horde of creepily corroded corpses!!!
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