Zombi 3 is a 1988 Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei and starring Deran Sarafian, Beatrice Ring, and Ottaviano Dell'acqua.

The film is about a group of scientists at a top-secret research facility who are working on a biological weapon called Death One, which mutates and kills the living creatures and reanimates the dead.

In a covert biological weapons laboratory in the Philippines, scientists work on a serum called Death One, which reanimates the dead.

As he prepares to surrender the serum to the military, a group of rival gunmen ambushes the facility, with the lone surviving criminal absconding with Death One.

Dr. Holder initially shows no concern about the virus escaping in such a manner due to its inability to survive more than half a minute in the presence of oxygen until he learns that the criminal accidentally touched the serum and became infected.

Morton orders the patrons and staff to be killed and buried in a mass grave, and the criminal's remains are transported to the facility's incinerator.

The men find a crate of guns left behind by the soldiers and begin fortifying the resort while Carol and one of the G.I.s, Bo, drive off to seek help.

Before fleeing, Kenny, Roger, Patricia, Nancy, and Joe kill many zombies by using their newly acquired weapons, but David is devoured in the skirmish.

The other four escape, as the final stage of Morton's zombie eradication begins and Dr. Holder expresses his fear that the atmospheric infection may not be confined to the island.

They make it to a helicopter, but only Kenny and Patricia escape, as Roger is attacked by the zombies while trying to join them and is killed by the cleanup crew.

[4] Producer Gaudenzi was worried about the film and had second unit director Bruno Mattei brought in to work on the production with Fragasso in order to complete it.

[5] In the United Kingdom, the film was released on DVD under the title of Zombie Flesh Eaters 2, as part of Vipco's Vault of Horror collection.

[15] In Germany, the film was released on DVD initially by Laser Paradise on July 2, 2001, in a Red Edition, and later, on December 31, 2003, by the same label, as part of a box set entitled the Lucio Fulci Collection.

On May 29, 2018, Severin Films released Zombi 3 on DVD and Blu-ray in the U.S., featuring a 2K scan of the original uncut version as well as commentaries and interviews.

From a contemporary review, Philip Nutman and Mario Cortini wrote in Gorezone that Zombi 3 was less original than Fulci's Aenigma, and that its main problem was its budgetary restraints and that "when the makeup FX do happen, they're so damn amateurish that they're embarrassing.