Three-episode film modeled after Three Of the previous year.
Three Asian horror directors of different nationalities tell stories that range between physical, psychological and metaphysical horror.
The first is Dumplings by Hong Kong director Fruit Chan.
A no-longer-young actress (Miriam Yeung) tries a rather bizarre and terrifying method to stay beautiful: she relies on Mei (Ling Bai) and her care.
Linear but original film, thanks in part to the interesting idea of making the sound of chewing dumplings heard. It will especially strike a chord with female audiences. A rather peculiar version of Death makes you beautiful In some ways...
Follows Cut by Korean Chan-Wook.
A rich, famous, and very good director is taken hostage with his wife in his own home by a psychopath who had appeared in some of his films.
The madman wants at all costs to bring out the director's more evil side....
The theme of revenge, so dear to the Korean director, is handled with a sure hand but without creating a somewhat original story.
It is, however, the most splattering episode of the film but with a very predictable ending.
There is a more extended version of the story that constitutes, in fact, a separate film.
A short story by a somewhat listless but still visionary Takashi entitled Box, a story of an unhealthy relationship between a writer and her publisher.
Ambiguous and mysterious.
Review by Zick
