Cecilia and her son Martín have a car accident. On the third day after the crash, she wanders by herself on a lonely route and there is no clue of her son. She can't remember what happened d... Read allCecilia and her son Martín have a car accident. On the third day after the crash, she wanders by herself on a lonely route and there is no clue of her son. She can't remember what happened during this time and she is desperately looking for her son. On her quest she finds coincid... Read allCecilia and her son Martín have a car accident. On the third day after the crash, she wanders by herself on a lonely route and there is no clue of her son. She can't remember what happened during this time and she is desperately looking for her son. On her quest she finds coincidences with her case and other police files, which seem to be acts of a brutal hunting. The... Read all
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Very unique low budget film
On the 3rd Day is a great lesson in building suspense. Almost at the beginning of the film, we know something horrific has happened, but we don't know what. The filmmakers take a non-linear method of storytelling, relying primarily on flashbacks, in order to gradually reveal clues leading up to the final shocking moments. There is also a lot of unique mythos created for the film around some familiar concepts to horror fans, making things a bit more interesting. The pacing is perfect and the storytelling method perfectly keeps the audience on the edge of their seats. Anghileri gives an especially powerful performance as Cecilia, making sure the audience truly cares about what happened to her and her son. On top of that, On the 3rd Day has a beautiful musical score to add to the tension as well as delightfully disturbing practical effects. I will say, the practical effects for the final big reveal and an end-credit scene are not my favorite, but a majority of the film is near-perfect.
The narrative is disjointed and jumbled, and the movie is edited with no sense of cointinuity, the story (nothing new or surprising to begin with) feels like a succession of unrelated scenes.
There are plenty of random oniric-like sequences peppered with fx that look like something from a 60's B horror movie, but not in a good way.
Furthermore, there's little to no explanation for anything that the protagonists do, they just wander from one scene to the next doing things because the script demands it (minor spoiler: ten minutes into the movie and just after a quick exchange between them, the doctor decides to take his patient to... a psychic? Why was he so eager to help her, in the first place?. De-rigueur hypnotism session ensues and we have a glimpse into what the big reveal is going to be, and boy, is so cliche and trite, and done with the subtlety and technical prowess of an elementary school play).
Acting, maybe with the exception of Gerardo Romano and the two cameo-length appearances by Arturo Bonín and Rodolfo Ranni, is mediocre.
It could have been a little scary B horror movie with a 60's feel to it, but it ended up being almost like a satire.
1. A bunch of characters who seem pretty unrelated and you have no idea what they have to do with one another.
2. Either dubbing from Spanish, or a drunk audio engineer.
3. Make up your mind: is it a demon or vampire movie, or something completely different?
4. The first 90% of the film had nothing scary and no relevance.
I only gave it 5 stars because the "monster" looked good.
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- TriviaThe film title presumably is a nod to the Resurrection Of Christ. It may also be a reference to certain Vampire Lores in that it usually roughly takes three days for someone infected with Vampireism to be reborn a Nosferatu.
- Quotes
Martin Garro: [on said vampire] Is It Now Gone?
- Crazy creditsAfter the credits Martin comes back to life as a vampire in front of Inspector Ventura moments before he is slain by vampires
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- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
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- 2.39:1
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