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A new pan-Asian thriller entitled <B>Three</B>, an anthology composed of three different short terror stories, ratchets up an excellent sense of panic and tension, that's long on style, atmosphere and mood, and has a genuine scariness that's appropriately unsettling.  </div> <bR> <div> All three films are different approaches to ghost stories, and all three come from different cultures.   The first is from South Korea, Kim Jee-Woon's <I>Memories</I>, an abstract nightmare that uses sound to build a sense of paranoia and terror as a man wakes up one day to discover his wife is no longer there.  The wife awakens on an unfamiliar city street and experiences a similar phenomenon, seeming to suffer from some sort of memory jog, and wanders around the city in a nightmare of helplessness. There's a haunting shot of someone sitting on the floor, rocking back and forth, hair concealing her face - and as the camera moves around her, there's a palpable sense of fear at what might be revealed.  </div> <bR> <div> The second piece from Thai director Nonzee Nimibutr, is more elaborate and ambitious.  <I>The Wheel</I> is a more classic ghost story that deals with a familiar horror film plot - age-old curse that's violated, and the revenge that's exacted.  When a desperate and poverty-stricken street performer appropriates a coffin of puppets belonging to a dead man, he suffers the consequences.  There's a fine sense of the macabre in the masks themselves and the fascinating theatrical puppet and performance scenes.  </div> <bR> <div> And the final piece is a kicker, not the least of which because it was helmed by one of the world's best modern cinematographers.  From Hong Kong comes <I>Going Home</I>, director Peter Ho-Sun Chan's twist on the old mad scientist re-animator story.  A depressed cop, whose son has mysteriously vanished, almost accidentally discovers some grisly goings on next door.  A mentally unhinged acupuncturist has developed an unhealthy fascination with his wife's dead body that extends well beyond "Till death do us part."  Ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who has lensed Wong Kar-Wai's best work (<B>Happy Together</B>,<B> In the Mood for Love</B>), greatly enhances the story's creepy subject with an excellent control of light, color and shadow.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Three</B>, with its creepy-awful atmosphere and uneasy and impending rise of terror that permeates each segment - is a true horror film, and much more in tune with something sinister that's about to happen, rather than what just did.   </div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="591" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> Lee Shoquist © 2003</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> <A HREF="mailto:info@reelmoviecritic.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@reelmoviecritic.com"><U><U>lee@reelmoviecritic.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>