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In 3 Tagen bist Du tot
Dead in Three Days
Austria 2006
produced by Helmut Grasser for Allegro Film
directed by Andreas Prochaska
starring Sabrina Reiter, Julia Rosa Stöckl, Michael Steinocher, Laurence Rupp, Nadja Vogel, Julian Sharp, Andreas Kiendl, Karl Fischer, Michou Friesz, Amelie Jarolim, Susi Stach, Michael Rastl, Konstantin Reichmuth, Darina Dujmic, Ines Honsel, Claudia-Sofie Jelinek, Tizian Eigner, Coco Huemer, Ada Kolland, Thaddäus Reich, Saskia Scheitz, Ferry Oellinger, Andreas Puehringer, Walter Sachers, Petra Schendl, Silvio Szücs, Elfie Vogel, Kurt Vogel, Raimund Wallisch
written by Thomas Baum, Andreas Prochaska, music by Matthias Weber, special effects by Tissi Brandhofer, Harald Siebler
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A quintet of teens have just graduated from high school and party like
there's no tomorrow - when one of them, Martin (Laurence Rupp),
disappears, and the others, especially his girlfriend Nina (Sabrina
Reiter), start to worry. But when they report the disappearance to the
police, police inspector Kogler (Andreas Kiendl) tells them he can't do
anything before Martin has gone missing for 24 hours - even though he's
Martin's cousin.
Eventually though, our teens find Martin again, killed and dropped into
a local lake. The first suspect is Patrick (Julian Sharp), the weird
classmate of our five teens, but he not only didn't do it, he also saves
Nina's life when she is kidnapped by the killer, even if that costs him
his own.
Then another one of the teens is killed in a terrible manner, Alex
(Nadja Vogel), who is decapitated by teh glass wall of an aquarium, and
it's up to her boyfriend Clemens (Michael Steinocher) to find her.
The remaining three teens, Nina, Clemens and Mona (Julia Rosa Stöckl),
try to figure out who could be behind the murders and soon realice they
have only one common possible enemy, Manfred Haas (Michael Rastl), the
father of a boy who drowned right before their eyes in a frozen lake when
they were playing hockey as kids ... and soon enough, Nina is even sure
that it was actually Haas who attacked her. Thing is though, Haas
committed suicide two years ago, and his wife Erika (Susi Stach) has since
left town. However, our teens are not content with this information and
decide to investigate the Haas's former home on their own, accompanied by
Nina's sister Kerstin (Amelie Jarolim) ... and wouldn't you know it, they
really run into Erika Haas in the house ... and have to realize they are
not really prepared for what they are doing, since Erika Haas - who has
indeed killed Martin, Patrick and Alex and who has abducted Nina wearing
her dead husbands facial skin as a mask - has no problems disposing of
Clemens on the spot, tieing up Kerstin and knocking out Nina. Only Mona is
able to escape and even get the police ... but by that time, Mrs Haas has
already taken Nina out to the lake, tied her to a weight and ddropped her
into the water - even if she fell into the water to her own death as well
-, and only just in time are police divers able to save Nina's life ...
Austria doesn't have much of a film industry in general, and especially
genre movies there are few and far between. In 3 Tagen bist Du tot
however looks and plays just like your typical slasher from wherever, and
by standards of the genre (a genre I have to admit I'm not particularly
fond of), the film is actually pretty good, the story relies less on gore
and the sex-equals-death formula but tells a rather comprehensible
whodunnit plot (of course within genre limitations) that keeps the
audience interested throughout (even if the film gives away way too few
clues to actually be able to really get into the murder mystery until the
very end), asnd features enough suspense scenes to keep the viewer on
edge. Plus the teen actors and actresses (usually a weak point within the
slasher genre) are actually pretty good in this one.
This all makes the film no classic, but definitely better-than-average
genre fodder.
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