Dead in 3 Days is a 2006 Austrian teen slasher flick. It is a fairly predictable film, with every death scene heralded a mile away. While this is not surprising, the fact that this film is a cut above American slasher flicks is. A group of teens who have just graduated from "high school" receive mysterious text messages saying that they will be "dead in three days." What happens next is standard. The teens are picked off one by one while they scurry around, trying to figure out why this is happening to them. This familiarly harkens back to I Know What You Did Last Summer. The actors are all unknowns who do a fine job. They are not just a bunch of clueless, idiotic drunks running around screaming. Granted, they are just a bunch of teenagers, but they show much more emotion and seem to care more about doing a good job than Sarah Michelle Geller did in I Know What You Did Last Summer.
This movie is a first for Austria, being a slasher flick. And I have to say that it is not all that bad. It is set and filmed in the rural Austrian village of Ebensee, with many shots of the beautiful lake and surrounding town. The cinematography is excellent for a movie filmed with 2 million Euro. While the blood and gore aspect of this movie is lacking, with only one really violent death scene, what is shown is respectably done. The movie does run a little long at over an hour and a half for being what it is. About an hour and twenty minutes in, I was ready for it to be over. Overall, this movie is predictable, not scary, but not bad either. Respectable acting by unknowns and decent filmography makes this a movie worth watching at least once. 3 out of 5.
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