This trilogy provides a sampler of three short horror films from high-profile Asian directors.
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10/27/05
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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
All 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
Miike, known as Japanese cinema's bad-boy shock master, delivers the most textured, delicate and finely crafted episode of the bunch.
10/27/05
Top CriticNot a dish for the faint of heart, perhaps, but for those with a taste for cruelty with a side order of irony and a dash of gore, it will be a perversely delicious treat.
10/27/05
Three Extremes would be better if it were Two Extremes.
10/27/05
A bloody strange movie -- and a surprise.
10/27/05
Top CriticWhat 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 CriticThree 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
Title notwithstanding, Three . . . Extremes really offers only two. The first is one of nausea.
10/27/05
Another pulpy Creepshow movie would be more welcome than a second installment of this stiff stuff.
10/26/05
Miike fans may want to pretend he had nothing to do with his segment
10/25/05
Cross-cultural Asian horror triptych is a bloody good time.
10/22/05
A perfect sampler platter of the best of A-horror.
10/18/05
A trio of horror pics, one, Dumpling, being the best, the other two just fine.
10/10/05
if you're familiar with any of those three directors, you might expect that THREE...EXTREMES lives up to its name. And you would be correct.
09/16/05
So you'd like to see work from a few Asian horror directors, but don't have time to watch three separate movies? Then here's the sampler platter you're looking for!
08/23/05
Park is the one director represented here with both a great "extreme" tale and the means at his disposal to tell it to full effect.
08/04/05
These three directors were allowed to do anything they wanted as long as it was, as the title says, extreme. Believe me, they took it to heart.
07/26/05
The result falls somewhere between psychodrama and horror.
07/05/05
Bracingly twisted.
04/09/05
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