Three… Extremes (2004)

쓰리, 몬스터

68 min ·R

Horror

anthology

“Three” is an anthology of three horror shorts from three different Asian countries.In "Dumplings" an aging actress wishing to reclaim her youth goes to a woman who makes dumplings that supposedly have regenerative properties; however, they contain a gruesome secret ingredient. In "Box" a soft spoken young woman has a bizarre recurring nightmare about being buried in a box in the snow. Searching for her long lost sister, she realizes her dreams and reality may possibly be connected. In "The Cut" a successful film director and his wife are kidnapped by an extra, who forces the director to play his sadistic games. If he fails, his wife’s fingers will be chopped off one by one every five minutes

Flocks 1

Fruit Chan 1 members · 7 movies

The films of Fruit Chan (陳果, born 1959, Hong Kong) — Hong Kong's most uncompromising independent voice. His Handover Trilogy — Made in Hong Kong (1997), The Longest Summer (1998), and Little Cheung (1999) — was shot without state backing on leftover 16mm film stock, capturing the anxiety, drift, and disillusionment of life on Hong Kong's streets around the 1997 handover with raw handheld immediacy. Made in Hong Kong in particular is one of the great works of independent Asian cinema: a youth film made for almost nothing that burns with genuine feeling. Chan later moved into body-horror genre work — Dumplings (full-length version and the Three Extremes segment) is a savage fable about vanity, consumption and desire — before returning with Coffin Homes (2021) to the cramped, desperate lives of Hong Kong's urban poor. His work is inseparable from the city that made him.