I was for sure the third film couldn't possibly be as painful as the second one, and boy was I wrong. Just the underground strobe light sequence where you can't decipher what the hell was going on as infected humans, a monster, and our lone survivors are duking it out, I went for the Tylenol. This film deals with those left alive at the end of the second film, dealing with the monsters as they discover three new characters along the way. One is a prepared and confident leader type whose fate is sealed when he attempts to show Secrets how to shoot a pistol. One is a very talented martial artist whose arms are both eaten off leaving him little help to anyone. The third is a prophet who seems to have the gift to ward off the monsters, only to discover that it's the screeching sound of his ear piece causing them to move away. The prophet talks the remaining members from the second film into going underground in the sewer tunnels and this idea, while seeming like an ideal strategy, doesn't help them as infected human freaks, demented and violent, are wandering around. And, behind them comes a monster. Those that remain include Biker Queen(Diane Goldner), Secrets(Hanna Putnam), Greg(Tom Gulager), Lightning(Juan Longoria García), Bartender(Clu Gulager), and Tat Girl(Chelsea Richards). Following the Prophet, they encounter far more danger than possibly realized. At the start of the film, they are able to finally get inside the sheriff's office, getting their revenge on Hobo(William Prael)who kept the building locked tight, by beating him to a pulp. When they realize that this will only service them temporarily, the gang splits up after exiting. Discovering Hobo's meth lab(..in a school bus buried under the earth), Biker Queen and Tat Girl finally believe they will be able to finally flee the premises, encountering engine problems. That's when they meet the Prophet, watching him command the monsters to scatter, and follow him into the sewers.
I don't know what director Gulager was attempting to accomplish with the ending, regarding the giant robot, but I was at my wit's end with the movie anyway. You get plenty of bloody carnage, but seeing what's going on is a major factor I struggled with. I soon just gave up caring and followed the mind-numbingly brain-dead flick until it's conclusion, breathing a sigh of relief as the Elvis impersonator was singing some song in Mexican as the credits rolled. For those that care, Slasher(Carl Anthony Payne II)gets anal raped by a monster who impregnates him, creating a hybrid human creature spawn! When the movie moves underground, almost all of it is incomprehensible and dark. There's some use of "nocturna vision", but even that is shot in such a haphazard manner, I doubt few will be satisfied. And, as the first two films proved, these characters have little worth, so their deaths couldn't come fast enough. John Allen Nelson is Sh#tkicker, the hero stereotype Gulager gets rid of just for the hell of it and Craig Henningsen is Jean Claude Seagal, the kickboxer who doesn't hold onto his arms very long. Josh Blue barely registers as Prophet, under a cloak, he mumbles directions and occasionally tells the monsters to take a hike as others complain of how noisy his hearing aid is, not knowing that it's loud frequency irritates the beasties. Greg goes almost the entire film with that pipe jammed into his face, and Bartender attempts to cauterize Claude Seagal's wounds like in Rambo III blowing the poor kid's other arm off!
