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.

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.

Park Chan-wook (The Little Drummer Girl) and Takashi Miike (Rainy Dog) are the best ones but they all show some disgusting but entertaining horror stories

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.

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!

This movie was twisted and made people surprised.

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).

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Portmanteau horror from Korea, China and Japan. The bookend stories are the most successful, especially Audition director Takashi Miike's Box, mainly because they instinctively know that the most chilling horror is low key and implied. Mike's is also very beautiful with a subtle soundtrack. If you enjoy horror these are very interesting and unsettling films.

Not scary and very slow.

3.9/5 Three different styles of horror beautifully showcasing not only the quality of the Asian approach to horror, but also the fact that an anthology, in order to be good and coherent, needs nothing more than actual fucking talent.

An imperfect, but chiiling and well-crafted collection of short Asian horror films

Though "Dumplings" had a pretty cool concept, partway through the films you realise that there's no benefit to putting yourself through them. And it really is an experience you're dragging yourself through, with no way near enough pay off.

Not bad, not quite as good as the first one though. But damn, that last segment "Going Home" is such an emotional gutpunch.

i didn't love it, but overall i liked it. if you're idea of a scary movie includes jump scares and the paranormal, then you won't find these scary; but if you love a good twisted plot, you might. i wasn't too impressed with "Dumplings" at first; but after watching the full released version, i appreciate it much more. the full version includes much more backstory (of course) and a few scenes that i had wished were in the short version; however the short version also had a scene that wasn't included in the full version -- the very last scene. and quite possibly the best ending scene i've seen in a while; makes the whole thing worth it to watch. "Cut" was kind of stupid. i didn't really enjoy this one. it had some "Saw"-esque-ness to it which i did enjoy, but i didn't particularly like the story. i appreciated the plot twist at the end though. i've read a lot of reviews that said "Box" was the worst one of the three -- but i beg to differ. this one was my favorite: it's the only story that i'm still thinking about; and i don't really know what i think... everything about it is so surreal and by the end of it you don't really know what happened. i tried to find some type of analysis on it, courtesy of the google machine, but i really didn't find anything. i did come across one review with some thought provoking ideas, but i don't think we'll ever know what REALLY happened. ugh -- i love when movies are like this, but it's also very frustrating because i want to know what it means!!!!!

6.8/10 The three main stories were strong and interesting, and nonetheless very bizarre. But they were maybe more on the twisted side than on tv scary one. Which isn't bad, but they felt too artsy to be considered real horror. However, they were quite creepy and out there, which is good, and they could well stand on their own. Therefore, it was a good anthology with three memorable horror tales. ~February 28, 2015~

Three, yes, extreme, stories, two with some very squeamish content and all three very stylishly done and artistically presented. The first two stories are very straightforward and the third so symbolic that you interpret it for yourself. Loved the sound effects.

Now, I finally got the chance to watch the segment of Fruit Chan's Dumplings, and it was a lot better as a segment than as a whole movie. I think the problem with the Dumplings movie is that it overstays its welcome and doesn't show as much gross-out moments as this does. The acting is fine, and the effects are still just as good as the whole movie. It tells the backstory of the main character, her purpose, and I got to know a lot about her in the segment. With a lot of information in the segment, it really felt unnecessary to make a movie out of it and I thought it shows enough that got me satisfied. It's not for everyone, but the segment is really great. Man, was the segment of Park Chan-Wook's Cut great. I honestly thought it was going to be a vampire segment at first, but it doesn't go that route which got me curious of where it's going. When it went into the "Saw" based premise, I was a bit worried about it, but it really worked for me. It's just as messed up as Dumplings, but still make its own story. It's exciting to watch, it has a lot of dark humor in it that are really funny, but made me feel bad to laugh at. The acting is terrific, it's very cringeworthy to watch, and it left me wondering about what's going to happen next. If the Saw series ran out of ideas for a sequel, they could take some notes on this as it really knows what it's trying to do. It's not really a horror segment however and is more like a thriller with some dark comedy in it. But it is redeemed by how well-done it is, and this segment should've been a movie itself, not Dumplings. Takashi Miike's Box is the most interesting out of the bunch. It's not as extreme as the other segment, but it does have its messed up moments. It's unsettling to say at least, and there's some moments where it scared me without using any of the jump scares. The acting is good, and there's some imagery in it that freaked me out. The plot is really interesting, and it can get surreal a lot. The ending got me lost at first, but when I think about it, I was starting to realize and understand. I like how it makes me think after watching it until it gets to the point of understanding it. Even though I don't think it's the best segment, despite the fact that some people think it's the best, it's an enjoyable segment that I'm glad that I watched it. Three...Extremes is a fantastic anthology movie that is perhaps my favorite anthology film. If it's not, then it's definitely one of the bests. It's not one of the scariest anthology films I seen, but it sure was messed up and it lives up to the name.

All three shorts are ridiculously disturbing, and they are all inflicted to the audience in the style of exploitative art

Insane sickness. A pattern to follow.