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Sarfaraz A Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, and Takashi Miike directed this horror anthology film set in China, Japan, and Korea. The film is broken into three sections: "Dumplings" (writer: Lilian Lee), "Cut" (writer: Park Chan-wook), and "Box" (writers: Bun Saikou and Haruko Fukushima). Starring Lee Byung-hun and others. Dumplings: In order to recover her youth, a former television actress pays secret visits to a woman and consumes dumplings. The dumplings contain fresh grounded meat from human fetuses. Cut: A lunatic who served as an extra in director's films takes him a hostage along with his pianist wife. The wife's torso and fingers are wired, and the director is restrained. Psycho pushes the director to admit his dark side and chop off his wife's fingers, as well as murder a kidnapped child he has brought with him, in order to save the wife. Box: A small sister locks her sister in a box at the circus where they perform for their master, furious that her sister is treated more fairly than her. During the ruckus, an accident happens, and the box in which her sister is confined lights up. Now an adult, tormented with guilt, and has hallucinations of her sister. I like anthology films since they include at least two or one chapter that I enjoy. The film lacks scary scenes, but it makes extensive use of eerier atmosphere and disturbing torture to heighten the dread. For me, the Japanese chapter "Box" was significantly more frightening and depressing. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/07/25 Full Review Chris M I know each of the three countries has done better than these stories. But this wanted more about shock over scares. Like dumplings that cause youth but their made from unborn chopped up fetuses. Shocking? Yes. Gross? Certainly. Scary? HELL NO! Another one was just torture porn, torture porn isn't scary. Lastly, whatever the hell that third story was, the one thing it wasn't was scary. 3 Extremes to me 3 extremely bad stories. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/19/22 Full Review Audience Member What's with the dumplings and Aunt Mei? Fruit Chan's opener takes it's time to create its atmosphere and the revulsion when the dumplings are revealed. In Park's second, a nice-guy director and his wife are held hostage by a disgruntled extra. Bizarre black moments of ridiculousness, sudden violence and web of piano wire. Miike's third has dreams within dreams, masks and flames. Effective, brutal and creepy. A lovely, disturbing anthology. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member It is absolutely one of the best and must-watching Asian horror movie. The movie is of three short stories, therefore, this seems to be a disadvantage for me at first because I'm worried the quality of the whole movie could be worsened when viewers do not have enough breathing time to fully and trully emerge themselves into the world that three stories want to creat. However, all three stories left me an unforgettable feelings. The first story about abortion and eating human flesh is extremely disgusting and disturbing. It is just so real and accurate in reflecting the dark sides of the society. The second story was the first attempt of Park-chan Wook with this genre but what he did is amazingly impressive. The story shows the evil and abhorent aspects of humans that everyone wants to hide but also contains funny details. The third one is of Takashi Miike again. He one more time makes the most out of silence and chooses present it with images. He actually plays with one's emotions but I like the skillful way he does it. WATCH IT! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie was twisted and made people surprised. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review nefasto r I would say: 1. Creepy and very disturbing. 2. Creepy and beautifully shot ( my beloved Chan-wook Park, of course). 3. Creepy and a bit of a bore. Worthy of a look, especially if you like horrors (which I don't). Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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