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The Coming: Dave's a bigshot at a computer company - but then
the company's system starts to act up. At the same time, he starts to have
visions of the end of the world ... so he decides to shut down the
company's computer system entirely, take a few days off and spend them
with his girlfriend while not telling his wife anything about his
vacation. Revenge: After the death of his mother, John tracks
down his father Jack in the Australian Outback digging for gold with his
companion Mike. Initially, John wants revenge on his father for not having
been a father to him (even though it was mommy who walked out on daddy and
not the other way round), then though he decides to stay with Jack and
Mike to do a bit of golddigging. Eventually, daddy strikes a rich vein -
but that's not necessarily a good thing, since not only is he afraid that
his son will still want revenge, but also Mike has an old score to settle
with him. It all ends with John playing the two men (and their greed)
against each other, and after Mike has killed his dad, John shuts him
inside the mine to miserably die amidst all his gold ... The
framing story of this film, a surreal piece about a less than talented
pianist slaughtering his family while practicing, is by far the best of
the whole film, it actually promises something the rest of Fragments of
Terror never manages to keep, an imaginative piece of horror. The
first story, The Coming, is quite the contrary, an endless sequence
of people talking, walking and wondering that never really forms a
narrative (and my synopsis above is guesswork at best) and that ends at a
deliberate point without having said anything. Revenge is an ok
revenge story that could have done with quite a bit of trimming (and it's
no 40 minutes long to begin with) to really amount to anything memorable,
but compared to the first film it's actually almost a relief. In all
though, the film is not worth your time and money, trust me.
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