A quintet of teens have just graduated from high school and party like there's no tomorrow - when one of them, Martin (Laurence Rupp), disappears, and the others, especially his girlfriend Nina (Sabrina Reiter), start to worry. But when they report the disappearance to the police, police inspector Kogler (Andreas Kiendl) tells them he can't do anything before Martin has gone missing for 24 hours - even though he's Martin's cousin.

Eventually though, our teens find Martin again, killed and dropped into a local lake. The first suspect is Patrick (Julian Sharp), the weird classmate of our five teens, but he not only didn't do it, he also saves Nina's life when she is kidnapped by the killer, even if that costs him his own.

Then another one of the teens is killed in a terrible manner, Alex (Nadja Vogel), who is decapitated by teh glass wall of an aquarium, and it's up to her boyfriend Clemens (Michael Steinocher) to find her.

The remaining three teens, Nina, Clemens and Mona (Julia Rosa St�ckl), try to figure out who could be behind the murders and soon realice they have only one common possible enemy, Manfred Haas (Michael Rastl), the father of a boy who drowned right before their eyes in a frozen lake when they were playing hockey as kids ... and soon enough, Nina is even sure that it was actually Haas who attacked her. Thing is though, Haas committed suicide two years ago, and his wife Erika (Susi Stach) has since left town. However, our teens are not content with this information and decide to investigate the Haas's former home on their own, accompanied by Nina's sister Kerstin (Amelie Jarolim) ... and wouldn't you know it, they really run into Erika Haas in the house ... and have to realize they are not really prepared for what they are doing, since Erika Haas - who has indeed killed Martin, Patrick and Alex and who has abducted Nina wearing her dead husbands facial skin as a mask - has no problems disposing of Clemens on the spot, tieing up Kerstin and knocking out Nina. Only Mona is able to escape and even get the police ... but by that time, Mrs Haas has already taken Nina out to the lake, tied her to a weight and ddropped her into the water - even if she fell into the water to her own death as well -, and only just in time are police divers able to save Nina's life ...

Austria doesn't have much of a film industry in general, and especially genre movies there are few and far between. In 3 Tagen bist Du tot however looks and plays just like your typical slasher from wherever, and by standards of the genre (a genre I have to admit I'm not particularly fond of), the film is actually pretty good, the story relies less on gore and the sex-equals-death formula but tells a rather comprehensible whodunnit plot (of course within genre limitations) that keeps the audience interested throughout (even if the film gives away way too few clues to actually be able to really get into the murder mystery until the very end), asnd features enough suspense scenes to keep the viewer on edge. Plus the teen actors and actresses (usually a weak point within the slasher genre) are actually pretty good in this one.

This all makes the film no classic, but definitely better-than-average genre fodder.

review � by Mike Haberfelner

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