3 Dead Girls (2007)
Black CAB Productions
R1 / NTSC DVD
Director: Christopher Alan Broadstone
Writer: Christopher Alan Broadstone
Starring: Tony Simmons & Lora Cunningham
Review by Brian Harris

Scream For Me: A troubled serial killer has more than just his tortured past and a dead body to worry about when a vicious rapist discovers his intended target has already met a terrible fate at the hands of another. Living...dead...hedonism knows no boundaries and only one person is leaving is walking out of that apartment alive.

My Skin!: George believes he's gotten away with the perfect crime after murdering his wife but things get complicated when the Grim Reaper is forced to arrive before his scheduled visit. Sometimes...there are worse punishments than death and George will soon learn it's not nice to fuck with the natural order of things.

Human No More: A emotionally distraught detective, having lost his family to a bloodthirsty murderer, can no longer find peace within himself in such an unjust world so he gives up on God, The Devil and mankind itself. What is a man without his humanity?

Christopher Alan Broadstone's short films are exactly what one might expect to see coming from an auteur-in-the-making. His story, colors & dialogue set him apart from the usual dreary horror "filmmaking" herd we've become too familiar (and bored) with. Words like "visionary," "savage" and "arthouse exploitation" immediately come to mind when watching CAB's shorts. He has an eye for color like Argento's Suspiria, a taste for the disturbing like Craven's Last House on the Left and an understanding of claustrophobic tension like Polanski's Repulsion.

One question kept echoing in my mind over and over again while watching 3 Dead Girls is, "Why the hell hasn't somebody given this guy a shot and a budget?"

While CAB deserves every bit of praise and credit for these minor masterpieces, actor Tony Simmons, prominently featured in each short, is without a doubt one of the most versatile actors I've seen in years. Bravo!

Honorable mention should definitely be given to cinematographers Stewart M. Eastman & Schwarz Nipfargen for their fantastic work on these shorts. They were able to capture the colors, lightning and imagery perfectly.
 

• Screen Format: Widescreen (1.85:1) / Color
• Hi-Def Transfer: Scream For Me
• Audio: Dolby Stereo
• Subtitles: N/A
• Running time: 52 mins.

• 3 Tonys Intro
• 11 Audio Commentaries
• Photo Galleries
• Trailers
• 7 Behind The Scenes Featurettes

Buy it. It's highly unlikely, at this point in time, you'll be able to rent this and, in my opinion, it's well worth owning. Don't be a scumbag or bootlegging douche and borrow or download this, just get off your lazy duff and purchase a copy along with Chris Broadstone's full-length novel, Puzzleman. You can't go wrong fo the price and you know goddamn well you spent more than $20 on absolute garbage like those copies of Battlefield Earth and Mariah Carey's Glimmer you hide underneath your mattress when your friends come over! Douche.

The only thing that could have made this DVD better would have been an extra short film, night vision home video of Christopher Alan Broadstone stroking his "dirty tamale" to the "Topless Adrienne Barbeau" scene in Swamp Thing and detailed instructions on how to create your own fembot.

"A stunning assault on the senses; as gorgeous as it is disturbing!"