Thr3e coming to theatres

Horror movie vetern Bill Moseley talked with Fangoria about his latest project. What makes me interested is the film will be an adaptation of Ted Dekker's thriller Thr3e. If it is anything like the book, I will love this movie. In fact, as soon as I finished the book, I told my wife, "This should be a movie." Looks like someone else had the same idea.

Comments

[seeker]

I don't like horror, but I did watch Cube 2: Hypercube this past week (alone, wife won't watch), and it was almost as good as the first Cube movie. Nice psychological profiles and interactions. The more recent one didn't have enough gore ;) - not that I like gore, but part of the fun of the first movie was watching the just desserts on the mean people.

[Sam]

Wait...Th3re? Isn't that title unfortunately like Se7en? Booo! Booooo on an uncreative title. Also, how can you like horror? Only us Satan worshippers like horror. I'm calling your preacher.

(Hey, where do you guys come down on the beliefs on Se7en's John Doe? You pro-or-con?)

[Aaron]

I must be out of the loop, I hadn't even heard of a Cube 1 much less a Cube 2.

Thr3e is nothing like Se7en, trust me. A lot more psychological and mental.

As far as liking horror, it totally depends on the type. I think slasher movies are boring and predictable. They are gruesome just for the sake of being gruesome. But movies that are more psychological and Hitcockian I like. I love the Ring (Ring 2 not so much), Birds still freaks me out.

As far as John Doe from Se7en. It's been awhile since I watched the movie remind me what his beliefs are.

[Sam]

I wasn't necessarily being serious. He's a guy that kills his victims based on the Se7en deadly sins. He sees the world rotting and claims to want to cleanse it. I don't actually think that anybody agrees with him, but he bases his beliefs on the older literary works that discuss Heaven and Hell.

I was just wondering why Thr3e's title looks, visually, like Se7en's.

The Cube movies are interesting, but ever-so-slightly overrated. As for me, I'm a zombie fan. A pure zombie fan. None of this running zombies nonsense.

[Aaron]

Okay, I just wasn't quite sure about which one he was. I did find it "interesting" to hear people who do crazy things for their beliefs. I'm not sure how you can translate a discussion of Heaven and Hell into committing unbelievably horrible acts. (But it did make an interesting premise for a movie.)

Actually Thr3e is written like THR3E, so the 3 and the E look even more similar. Just as in Se7en the number used in the title is very important to the plot of the movie/book. Everything basically revolves around the number. It is also a teaser to the shock ending.

If you get a chance see the movie, of course the book is better, but I have hopes that the movie will be good as well.

[seeker]

I don't do slasher movies because the protagonist is often tormented by fear. Having grown up a victim of fear (the small kid who got bullied), I resent these films and refuse to be carried along by fear. I much prefer the empowerment of action movies, where the main character does NOT let fear rule him, but instead, decides to kick *ss.

I also don't like gore for gore's sake, but don't mind it too much if it's the bad guy getting his just desserts, or if it's central to the plot (war movies). But victims, especially female ones, I just don't like to watch.

I never liked zombie movies until I saw Resident Evil, which was excellent - but I think the sci-fi element made it more palatable to me.

The Cube movies are a bit overrated, but I think they do deserve some credit, esp. the first one.

I never saw Se7en, nor the Devil's Rejects, both of which sound like well-done movies.

I don't enjoy twisted morality plays like the Saw movies (which I won't see). It's just not worth polluting myself for the sake of "entertainment." But that's me. I didn't see Silence of the Lambs for the same reason - I don't really need to live inside the mind of a severely twisted person and their fear-filled victim for two hours just for fun.

Ebert and Roeper recently reviewed The Hills Have Eyes as a "bloody splatter movie", and gave it two thumbs down - gore for gore's sake just is dumb.

I don't like movies like the Ring (again, fear), but it was well done.

I also don't really like demon posession movies because most of them are, again, filled with people ruled by fear, when a good dose of faith would either cast out the demons, or the use of a shotgun to shoot the poor posessed bastard could end of story.

My favorite "macabre" movie is probably The Cell - Vincent DeNofrio (sp?) is fantastic, and it is a visually stunning movie, and has a nice church-abuse link-in to the plot.

[Sam]

You guys are so strange. If Brent Bozell heard about what the both of you were watching, he'd be burning your homes to the ground.

[seeker]

Guess I'll have to google Brent Bozell.

I think violent movies are one of the vices of many christians (porno aside) that go unchallenged. However, there is a strong artistic current in churches as well that likes to defy a rigid approach to the arts.

I always like hanging out with the worship musicians, because they are the most open to artistic stuff that is outside of the sometimes stale xian arts culture. They are less judgemental if they find you listen to "secular" music (all of us real musicians do). You'd be surprised how many worship guitarists listen to harder music (though very few like me who occasionally listen to actual hard music like Killswitch Engage).

[Evil_Lonnie]

This touches on something from my childhood...

I had some friends growing up that were strict Baptists. I used to go over to their house all the time and they were able to watch Rambo, Maximum Overdrive and all sorts of other movies that were, at times, rather violent. However, when a love scene was on, their mother would come in and fast forward through it.

I know this experience doesn't speak to every Christian household, but I would say that it speaks to a trend... Why is sex perceived as the greater taboo when violence obviously has much scarier implications?

[Kal-El]

It doesn't matter what sect of Christianity you come from, even Catholicism, sin is never pluralized in the Bible, sin is sin. The greater sin is what you do when your conviction is telling you not to do.