Three... Extremes
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Horror, R, 20-Aug-2004
This spine-chilling horror anthology begins with ‘Dumplings’ by Fruit Chan, which sees a former actress seek out a mysterious woman to make special dumplings with age-reversing properties. ‘Cut’ is Park Chan-wook’s darkly funny offering about a kidnapper who forces a filmmaker into a sadistic game. Finally, in Takashi Miike ‘Box’, a reclusive novelist is haunted by memories of a tragic incident.
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