These films give you a rush that most American horror movies don't, even if you're not entirely certain what's going on.
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3 Extremes (2005)
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Reviews Counted:62
Fresh:52
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: This anthology contains brutal, powerful horror stories by three of Asia's top directors.
Theatrical Release:Oct 28, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: THREE...EXTREMES brings together an Asian scream team of filmmakers, featuring a trio of short works by Hong Kong's Fruit Chan (DURIAN DURIAN), Korea's Chanwook Park (OLDBOY), and Japan's Takashi... [More]
Starring: Byung-hun Lee, Pauline Lau, Miriam Yeung, Star
Director: Fruit Chan, Chan Wook Park, Takashi Miike
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Reviews for 3 Extremes
A black-blooded hoot.
10/27/05
Top CriticDon't expect scary from this trilogy of short horror films from a trio of Asia's most interesting directors, which are not so much extreme as twisted.
10/27/05
Blood, grotesquerie and humor mix equally in the first two, but the full combo makes a savory witches' brew for Asian-cinema cultists (or Halloween lovers in need of a gore fix).
10/28/05
Top CriticAll the episodes are interesting and disturbing - perhaps too much so, without any clear reason for the audience to endure the suffering.
07/07/08
For those in the middle, fasten your seat belts for a bumpy ride -- narratively and artistically -- and don't go in on a full stomach.
10/28/05
Top CriticAn arena rock type film event for lovers of Asian cinema.
04/09/05
Three of Asia's best-regarded young filmmakers contribute to this terror trilogy, each giving his segment a distinctive flavor of bleak black comedy and elegant dread.
10/27/05
Top CriticAll three look great and the filmmakers deliver a certain artiness, but their overall triviality and the unpleasantness of the first two make for an extremely distasteful experience.
10/27/05
Top CriticThe Dumplings short may be hard to watch (not to mention stomach), but it's even harder to listen to without getting a major case of the heebie-jeebies.
10/28/05
You can't watch these three mini-movies without wondering what you possibly can take from them, but there's warped creativity at work in all of them, and if you can separate talent from content, you'll see three very adventurous filmmakers at work.
10/28/05
Top CriticAlthough quite different in their respective plotlines, pacing and moods, the trio of segments in Three... Extremes gel together smoothly to form a complementary and memorable final product both fascinating and utterly horrific.
04/09/05
Miike fans may want to pretend he had nothing to do with his segment
10/25/05
What all three of these stories share is the quality found in Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King: An attention to horror as it emerges from everyday life as transformed by fear, fantasy and depravity.
10/27/05
Top CriticA satisfying trio of twisted tales.
11/10/05
This high profile anthology of shorts by Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, and Takashi Miike is related by their chilling structuralist rigor.
02/17/05
The result falls somewhere between psychodrama and horror.
07/05/05
Top CriticThe consistently high production values and legitimately creepy storylines ensure that even those who don’t consider themselves horror fans will likely feel satisfied after this three-course meal.
04/09/05
Three Extremes would be better if it were Two Extremes.
10/27/05
The first is the best, the second most riveting, the third most disturbing, but all will stay with you for weeks.
10/27/05
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