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Three consists of three short horrormovies. Segment one,
Memories
is about a man who suffers from strange disturbing visions after his
wife left him. He has a weird feeling that something bad has happened
to her and when her sister hasn't heard from her in many days he begins
to wonder what really happened to her. Segment two, The Wheel is about
A small jungle society which seems to have been put under a curse, and
it's now up to a young boy to see too that the curse is lifted. The
third story, Going Home is about a man and his son who move into a
building, when the boy starts seeing a little girl in a red dress
he mysteriously disappears one day, now his father has to go look for
him. Unfortunatly for the father, he gets kidnapped by a mad doctor
who believes that his dead wife is still alive...
Memories
Wow, we havn't
seen anything like this in a long time, the movie
is very artsy and there's not really much of a dialogue. When you
start to watch this movie it's kind of slow, but that's actually a
good thing as when the movie is over you feel like you have watched
a long film instead of a short. I was surprised how much I ended
up liking this because you really have to do a lot of thinking
yourself to understand the movie, and who doens't love thinking?
Well at the end everything will be explained so for you anti-
brainers, you will get the movie aswell.
The acting, well, it's good, but since there isn't much of a
dialogue I can't really judge the acting, but, well, It couldn't
have been better if I put it like that. The directing is probably
one of the best jobs I have ever seen, the camera angles work
perfectly and it's like it was shot by 10 different directors as
it uses so many elements to keep the viewer interested, you'd be
surprised how much the directing does for this movie.
I think this movie probably gave me the most jumps I've ever had,
even though it used a lot of loud noices to make you jump. Still,
I can't give the movie five stars as it as a bit too slow and not
a lot is going on in it, and I would also like to have some scary
scene with the little girl involved which I never got. But after
all, I really think this was a well spent 40 minutes!
The Wheel
What the hell
was this? A bad version of Child's Play? A boring
excuse for a horrormovie? This movie was just total rubbish, it
felt as if I was watching a japanese Tempe/Full Moon movie, just
in a really really bad version. The directing is quite bad, and
is totally uninteresting and so is the acting...
I've seen many puppet horror movies before, and I don't think I
enjoyed any of them, but I can say that this is definitly the
worst among the worst! I don't think this movie has anything
going for it at all, if anyone disagrees with me on this movie,
gimme some feedback at the forum, cause this is just what I thought,
perhaps other people will be more fond of this movie than I was.
I was bored out of my bones and would rather sit through the
terrible Blair Witch movie again than to watch this again.
Going Home
The fact that
this movie is more of a powerful drama than a horror-
movie, doesn't make it any less enjoyable. The plot is very sad and
at the end you really feel bad about just about everyone except the
little boy, although I would have wanted to know more after the
ending, but I think the movie would've become too long to be called
a short movie in that case.
The acting is very good and you really get to know the persons
involved, you really get to feel for them. I was reminded of the
1997 movie Winter Lily when I saw this, as it plays much like it,
except that Winter Lily was a lot creepier and was more of a horror
movie than this is. The directing is good but nothing out of the
ordinary like the first of these three movies (Memories).
I can't say that there was anything except for perhaps the end in
this movie taht I didn't like so I can't describe why I didn't give
it a higher rating... It's like, you know when you talk about a
drink like perhaps coca cola or something and you're about to drink
water or milk or something, you are surprised in a bad way since
you were thinking of coca cola and you imagined that you would be
drinking it aswell, hmmm, that sounded wrong, well anyone who knows
what I mean understands why I didn't give this movie a higher rating.
This is still a very good movie and pays back for the terrible movie
you had to sit through before watching this.
We get some chopped of fingers and some brains floating around in a pool
of blood but other than that it's pretty goreless.
Memories depends a lot on the audial part so obviously we get a top-notch
soundtrack here with eerie piano music and echoes. The Wheel doesn't live
up to the first movie at all, here we get some weird asian jungle music
and not the music genre jungle. In Going Home a somewhat depressing and
powerful piano melody plays throughout the movie, well, in the beginning
we get the usual eerie strings that you get in a horrormovie, but I guess
the director of this movie must've changed his mind and totally gone with
the drama feel instead.
All in all, Three is a pretty good movie, if they excluded The Wheel it
would have been a lot better though so I suggest you avoid that one.
Going home is the most successful out of the three and has even gotten
its own DVD release. Personally I liked Memories the most though.
Review By: AnthroFred
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