Three Tales of Terror VIII

Three Tales of Terror VIII is a 2008 Patagonian supernatural horror thriller anthology film produced by Burniston Films, and the 9th installment of the long-running Patagonian horror anthology film franchise Three Tales of Terror, also created by Burniston. The film revolves around three segments as with the preceding installments.

The first segment, "The Nightmare", revolves around a pair of lovers who are tracked down by the boyfriend's ex-girlfriend in their nightmares. The second segment, "Mommy Dolly" is focused on a possessed doll's attack on a family and consequently the doll's backstory. The third and final segment, "Masked", satirizes the masking fetish community and revolves around a group of maskers who camp at a forest, getting attacked one by one by a vampire.

The Nightmare
Lovers Michelle and Dave appear to be going on a date at a theme park in Viedma, but as they exit the park they are encountered by an anonymous person who warns them against sleeping, fearing that they may die. As the stranger leaves she is strangled and beheaded by a figure wearing a red cloak.

Michelle wakes up in her dormitory, revealing the opening scene to have been a dream, and in the process draws a picture of the mysterious cloaked figure, recalling about how her grandfather died of a nightmare. When Michelle's office mate Gary enters, Michelle tries to explain her nightmare, but Gary shrugs it off. When Michelle opens her grandfather's room, an eerie presence starts disturbing objects in the room. It is then revealed that Michelle is a vendor at an antiques shop. One day she is visited by a handsome biker in leather, who is revealed to be a younger masked man named Edward, and accompanied by his friend Dave. Dave also reveals that he brought along his reluctant ex-girlfriend, Linda, whose mysterious aura shocks Michelle.

Later that day a customer arrives to order a few tealights, and notices that the customer is holding a piece of paper with what appears to be a spell for enabling its users to dream of their loved ones and vice versa. The spell must be recited after a candle is lit before bedtime. However, if the candle is consumed and the user fails to wake up, the user dies. Eager to try out the spell, Michelle is allowed to keep the parchment but Linda steals it from her in an attempt to try it out for herself. Michelle buys her own candle, recovers the spell, and tries it out herself. With the spell performed, Michelle, Dave and Linda are somehow transported into their collective dream without them realizing.

The apparition from the opening scene tries to kill the lovers but the event is passed off as a hallucination. Michelle then complains to Dave about insomnia, but the figure reappears and vanishes. With Michelle and Dave successfully proposing to each other, Linda arrives just in time and berates Dave for his infidelity, leading her to chase Michelle and Dave out of the shop and into an overpass. Michelle stumbles, breaking her leg, and when the figure reappears, Dave bravely confronts it and the two throw themselves out of the overpass, before this is revealed to be another nightmare.

Michelle wakes up just in time before the candle is fully consumed, and when she runs to the hospital she realizes that Dave and Linda fell into a coma after the spell was carried out, which explains how she, Gary, and Edward were no longer able to feel their presence. Michelle realizes that Linda died since she never woke up before the candle was consumed, and Michelle was the only survivor among those who tried the spell that day. Michelle also overhears Gary telling them that he had found Linda unconscious minutes prior, and that Edward found Dave apparently dead whilst at the antiques shop. Michelle has a revelation as well: her grandfather actually died of a stroke and not a nightmare as she initially believed, and she breaks it out to the two.

Back in the dream world, Dave dreams of Linda hugging him against his will, revealing that the red cloaked woman was Linda, angry at Dave for rejecting her in Michelle's favor. Michelle tries to wake Dave up, but the latter is trapped in the dream world. Struggling and left with no choice, Dave announces that he is ending his relationship with Michelle and will love Linda instead, leaving a victorious Linda to finally strangle and then decapitate him in the dream world, just as he finally flatlines in the real world. A heartbroken Michelle accepts her boyfriend's fate, but Dave temporarily awakens and in a trance, tells her that he now belongs to Linda before relapsing into death. Michelle wails in anguish while Linda is heard laughing maniacally.

The epilogue reveals Linda dating with a now-headless Dave before their corpses disintegrate into skeletal figures, and the camera pans down to reveal their graves. Michelle is heard weeping.

Mommy Dolly
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Masked
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