''Demoni 3'' (originally known as ''Black Demons'') is a 1991

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directed by

Umberto Lenzi Umberto Lenzi (6 August 1931 – 19 October 2017) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and novelist. A fan of film since young age, Lenzi studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and made his first film in 1958 which went unr ...

(his last horror film). It was written by Lenzi and his wife Olga Pehar, and the zombie makeup fx were handled by Franco Casagni. Lenzi said in later interviews that this was one of his favorite films, but he felt it was ruined by the low budget and some of the shoddy actors with whom he was forced to work with.

Synopsis

Two American college students, Dick, his sister Jessica, and her English boyfriend Kevin, are traveling through

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on vacation when Dick, after attending a bizarre

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ceremony, develops strange powers. When their jeep breaks down near a small plantation in the jungle outside Rio, the site of a former slave rebellion one hundred years ago, Dick uses his powers to raise from the dead six executed slaves, who target the college kids and the residents of the plantation to seek revenge for their deaths.

Film title

Lenzi intended ''Demoni 3'' to be called ''Black Demons'', and he did not like it when the film was later retitled ''Demoni 3'' on video, because some people thought it was part of

Lamberto Bava Lamberto Bava (born 3 April 1944) is an Italian film director. Born in Rome, Bava began working as an assistant director for his director father Mario Bava. Lamberto co-directed the 1979 television film ''La Venere d'Ille'' with his father and in ...

's ''

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'' series, which it had absolutely nothing to do with. Lamberto Bava also directed a film in 1988 for Italian TV entitled '' The Ogre'' (aka ''House of the Ogre''), which was released on video in the US as ''Demons III: The Ogre''. Despite the American title, it is also not related in any way to Bava's ''Demons'' series. The film that was actually intended to be ''Demoni 3'' was instead released as '' The Church'' (''La Chiesa''), produced by

Dario Argento Dario Argento (; born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film critic, critic. His influential work in the horror film, horror genre during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in the subgenre known as ...

, directed by

Michele Soavi Michele Soavi, sometimes known as Michael Soavi (born 3 July 1957)Baldassarre, Angela (1999) "The Great Dictators: Interviews with Filmmakers of Italian Descent", Guernica Editions, is an Italian filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter best known fo ...

and written by Argento, Soavi and

Franco Ferrini Franco Ferrini (born 5 January 1944) is an Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom * ...

.''The Church'' (1988) - The Movie
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Demoni 3 1991 films 1991 horror films 1990s Italian films 1990s Italian-language films Films about Brazilian slavery Films about Voodoo Films directed by Umberto Lenzi Films scored by Franco Micalizzi Films set on farms Films set in jungles Italian supernatural horror films Italian splatter films Italian zombie films