Three students, Asma, Max and Nico, are sure they ahve failed their
maths testwhich means they would have to repeat the whole year - again.
Unless they ... break into the school that night, exchange their bad tests
for good ones they ahve prepared at home, and turn out to be triumphant at
the end of the day.
Now breaking in and finding and exchanging the tests is the easy bit,
but then they run across the caretaker, and seeing him, Nico and Max take
off in a hurry ... but Asma - he never made it out, his mother has even
informed the police.
So Nico and Max have the great idea to break into the school again
the next night, but what was an ordinary school building, their school
building the other night has now turned into a nightmare, full of hooded
and masked figures, Satanist symbols, doors they just went through that
keep disappearing, a mazelike combination of hallways, and then they even
meet Asma, with his hands cut off and sawed onto his body where his feet
should be. Or is it all just Nico's nightmare, and has he actually been
killing Asma, the caretaker and possibly Max too ?
I don't know ...
And quite frankly, I don't care either.
Lidris Cuadrade di Tre is not a good film, its simply shit,
pretentious shit maybe, but still shit. At the beginning, the film is more
than a little reminiscent of The
Blair Witch Project, the story is pretty much exactly the same:
Three kids going somewhere to look for something, but instead the horror
gets them. But where The
Blair Witch Project was fresh and inventive, Lidris Cuadrade di Tre
remains derivative and totally lacks the panache of the other movie. But
the atmosphere of the film is really destroyed when our heroes meet the
Satanists, performing an overly clichéd ritual, and when they find the
whole place littered with Satanic synbols. One simply can't help but
wonder why, especially when during the remaining movie, the Satanist theme
is repeatedly dropped and picked up again rather at will. And of course it
doesn't help either that the lead characters remain totally flat and one
can't help but not caring about them - thanks also partly to dull,
uninvolving performances of all three leads.
To sum it up, a complte waste of time.
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