Dumplings,” directed by Fruit Chan of Hong Kong, is a fairly corny vignette...the other two are well worth seeing.

| Jun 28, 2022

You can't believe what they're doing here.

Full Review | Nov 7, 2005

An instantly memorable, at times squirm-inducing, assemblage as likely to take your breath away as it is to trigger the gag reflex.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 30, 2005

Asian horror like the new Three ... Extremes beats an American film like Saw II at its own game.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 30, 2005

A strong effort from everyone involved, though they're not all wholly successful.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2005

It's just three gifted filmmakers with vision to spare, daring you to go to their extremes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 28, 2005

One is haunting and wonderful, one is very good, and one spoils the fun.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 28, 2005

Ask three of Asia's most extreme filmmakers to contribute a short horror film each, and the result is, well, extreme.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2005

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).

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2005

It has three stories, and each is extreme. Yet even literalism can be an understatement.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 28, 2005

Makes a persuasive argument for what's wrong with so many horror films today.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2005

Three . . . Extremes will be a must-see only for fans of Asian horror, but it may also send some people looking for full-length films by these gifted filmmakers.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2005

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 28, 2005

Unevenness is the strongest facet of Three... Extremes, a diverse and successfully chilling horror triptych.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 27, 2005

A black-blooded hoot.

Full Review | Oct 27, 2005

The first is the best, the second most riveting, the third most disturbing, but all will stay with you for weeks.

| Oct 27, 2005

This trilogy provides a sampler of three short horror films from high-profile Asian directors.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 27, 2005

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 27, 2005

Miike, known as Japanese cinema's bad-boy shock master, delivers the most textured, delicate and finely crafted episode of the bunch.

| Original Score: B | Oct 27, 2005

A bloody strange movie -- and a surprise.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 27, 2005