In 3 days you will be dead

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Movie
Original title In 3 days you will be dead
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Andreas Prochaska
script Thomas Baum ,
Andreas Prochaska
production Helmut Grasser ( Allegro Film )
music Matthias Weber
camera David Slama
cut Karin Hartusch
occupation

You're dead in 3 days is an Austrian horror thriller by Andreas Prochaska from 2006. The film is about a young clique in the Upper Austrian Salzkammergut who one day is confronted with death threats via SMS, which are soon followed by deeds.

action

A clique celebrates the high school diploma . Suddenly everyone receives a text message with the text: “You will be dead in 3 days!” None of the friends pays special attention to the text message, they believe it is a bad joke. But on the same day Martin, Nina's friend, disappears without a trace. Nina immediately believes in a crime and goes to the local police station, where she is turned away by the police officer. There is nothing he can do as long as the person is not gone 24 hours. The next day, Martin's body appears in the Traunsee . He was handcuffed and thrown into the water with a weight. A little later Nina is tied up and kidnapped. In a house by the lake she comes to and tries desperately to free herself. Suddenly Patrick comes to her aid. If the clique originally suspected Patrick of wanting revenge on them for teasing in childhood, he now frees Nina. On the run, however, Patrick is grabbed and killed, while Nina escapes, runs into the street and is hit by a police car.

After a day in the hospital, Nina believes that she has briefly seen the hooded face of the perpetrator and, together with her friends, has a suspicion that she can identify the killer. It is said to be the father of Fabian Haas. The boy broke into the lake a few years ago while playing ice hockey with the gang. While the others fled, he was apparently rescued, but died three days after the accident. But the police find out that Fabian's father has hanged himself in the meantime.

On the same day Alex, a girl from the gang, is found cruelly murdered in the family hotel. From now on, the remaining friends are under police protection, consisting of a single officer in front of Nina's house, to which her friends have temporarily moved. Early in the morning they decide to drive to the allegedly abandoned house where the Haas family used to live. Nina's younger sister should call the police if they are not back by eight o'clock. But she follows the three on her bike. While watching the house, she is suddenly grabbed, handcuffed and brought into the house. The friends already in the house hear the gagged girl's attempts to scream and find her on the ground floor. While trying to free her, a woman enters the room who turns out to be Erika Haas, Fabian's mother. One of the friends points the gun he had taken with him and tells her to leave. Instead, the woman suddenly stabs his stomach with a knife. There is a fight. Nina is tied up, Mona falls on a sharp fence post while trying to escape.

While Nina is being driven onto the lake, Mona can pull herself up again and crawl to the next street. At the same moment the policeman, who also wanted to check the house on the lake again, drives past. He calls for reinforcements and has the seriously injured girl taken to the hospital. A special unit frees Nina's sister, who is still tied up in the house.

When Nina is about to be thrown into the lake herself, she can grab a knife that fell on the ground next to her and stab it in the murderess' stomach. This then falls into the lake. Nina believes she is safe, but then realizes that she, the woman and a concrete block are tied to the same rope. She tries to cut herself loose, but is dragged into the water. In the meantime, however, the special forces have discovered the boat and divers can free Nina. In the hospital she wakes up next to Mona.

background

The film is unique in Austrian film history as it is the first commercially-oriented film production whose protagonists are exclusively cast with amateur actors and which was shot in the regional dialect. Well-known actors can only be found in supporting roles. It is also one of the first slasher films in Austria.

The film with an average budget of just two million euros for a current Austrian film should stand up to the comparison with established and much more elaborately produced US teen horror films and prove that this genre is also possible in Austria. In order to keep the film in language and choice of actors Austrian , a co-production with Germany, which would have made a higher budget and thus a more complex production possible, was deliberately avoided. The use of amateur actors speaking in dialect against the background of the pristine backdrop of the Salzkammergut also has the effect of making the film look more authentic.

The proof was that a teenie shocker based on the tried and tested US model can also be successfully implemented in Austria. With 82,500 moviegoers, the film is the second most successful Austrian production of 2006 after We Feed the World .

Production information

The film was shot between August and September 2005 in Upper Austria's Ebensee , in Pinsdorf , in Bad Ischl , Vienna and Korneuburg (the hospital scenes). Funding came from the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund (EUR 21,951 reference funds ) and the State of Upper Austria . In addition, the film was produced within the framework of the film / television agreement .

The film was presented to the public for the first time on August 7, 2006 at the Locarno International Film Festival . The Austrian premiere took place on September 15, 2006 in the Ebensee cinema . The regular film release in Austria was September 22, 2006. In German-speaking Switzerland, the film was released on January 18, 2007, in Germany on February 22, 2007. In addition to the 82,618 admissions that the film had in Austria, 28,934 people also saw the film in Turkey, 10,068 in Germany, 5,092 in Spain and 1,934 in Switzerland.

continuation

In 2007, Allegro Film and director Andreas Prochaska started work on the sequel In 3 Days You're Dead 2 due to the success . Sabrina Reiter , whose character Nina survived in the first part and is now overtaken by the past, which she actually wanted to forget, is the main actress.

In winter she goes in search of her friend Mona and comes to a lonely mountain farm in Tyrol, where she not only uncovered a crime, but was captured and almost killed by the strange family who lived there. Only at the end does she realize again that the search for Mona was pointless because she had already died in the first film.

The film was shot in the Salzkammergut and Tyrol / Kaunertal in February and March 2008. The film was released in Austrian cinemas on December 25, 2008. It had its Austrian premiere on December 12th in Innsbruck Metropol Multiplexx.

Trivia

Laurence Rupp and Sabrina Reiter, who act as lovers in the film, also got closer in their private lives and have a son named Finn.

When the film was released in Austria, the election campaign for the 2006 National Council election was in full swing. Thus, on billboards and pillars, there was an unintentionally comical clash between the “In 3 days you're dead” campaign, which announced the film in large letters, with the ÖVP election campaign, which almost exclusively featured Wolfgang Schuessel.

Reviews

  • www.filmstarts.de : All in all, the quality of the film has much more in common with its American predecessors than Euro horror garbage like Swimming Pool (2001). And this is how “You are dead in 3 days” according to the motto “Well stolen is better than badly made yourself”, whereby the unsuitable Austrian accent and the petty-bourgeois sluggishness of the rustic village turn out to be surprising plus points.
  • Profile in the edition of September 18, 2006: The formulas of the youth culture-based blood opera Hollywood-style (see “ I know what you did last summer ”) can also be transferred to the Salzkammergut without major friction losses, and even increased in their effectiveness : Confidently staged and carried by a motivated ensemble, “In 3 days you are dead” establishes the provincial idyll as a landscape of fear, in which young people's worries about their existence experience their lifeworldly grounding and at the same time are brought to a metaphorical exaggeration.
  • film-dienst 4/2007: Teen slasher film that adheres to the rules of the genre, played credibly and staged solidly. He skillfully uses various water metaphors to refer to a crime long ago.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ You'll be dead in 3 days in: Lumiere - database of movie attendance figures in Europe (accessed on January 23, 2009)
  2. ↑ www.filminstitut.at: You'll be dead in 3 days - Part 2 , Austrian Film Institute (page accessed on January 10, 2008)