Three Tales of Terror IX

Three Tales of Terror IX is a 2012 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. It was directed by Gwen Matei, and starred an ensemble cast composed of Elizabeth Philips, Catherine Davies, Edward Wine, and Lauren Wendt.

The film revolves around three horror stories as with the preceding installments. The first segment, "Dead Bride's Dress", revolves around a gown possessed by a vengeful bride who is out for revenge on her descendant. The second segment, "Stolen Body", revolves around a nurse who gets possessed by a demonic spirit by way of one of her patients. The final segment, "The Attack", revolves around a family who are trapped in the wreckage of the Nickelodeon Universe theme park during an alien invasion.

Dead Bride's Dress
Newly-engaged couple Katie and Edward are planning their wedding ceremony. While Katie is driving with a friend of hers, a fashion designer named Tom, they run over a woman. They go outside only to find nothing but a wedding veil and leave. After visiting a thrift store, Katie finds and purchases a secondhand wedding gown before asking Tom to fix it. The gown suddenly springs to life and kills a seamstress, and while Katie and Edward dine at a fancy restaurant, they are stalked by an old man. Katie then suffers nightmares of a woman wearing the gown and an old house. The gown on the other hand attacks and kills Tom, with him uttering the famous line "You're just a useless gown, I can tear you to shreds!" before being killed.

Once the repaired dress is given to her, Katie's nightmares continue. After realizing that Tom had been murdered by the possessed dress, the same old man stalking her while she was dining with Edward appears, asking her to cancel the wedding, although his warnings are ignored. Katie is left with no option but to return the gown to the store she bought it from, and her suspicion about the dress is raised since she knows it killed Tom and featured in her nightmares. Edward disregards these realizations and chooses to sleep with Katie again. Despite the gown coming to life again one night, it is set on fire by the couple before going back to sleep.

Searching for a church to hold their wedding in, they notice and enter a castle akin to the one in Katie's nightmares. She notices a painting of a woman wearing the same gown as the one responsible for the murders. Just before the couple leave, the same old man appears. While Katie initially berates him for constantly surveilling her, the old man ends up telling her the dress's backstory. It was owned by Maria, the sister of a German prisoner during World War II, who had been cheated on by her husband, a British trooper named Peter, on the eve of her wedding. She thus murdered the wife and was shot by Peter in retaliation. With her dying breath, she places a curse on herself and her gown so that any bride related to Peter would be killed the same way.

Peter then stopped making love with women, but did fall in love with a military nurse named Patricia. Before the relationship ended, Patricia gave birth to a boy, who turned out to be Katie's father. The old man reveals himself as Peter, Katie's grandfather, and tells Katie that she is the first woman related to his bloodline. Peter then urges her again to call the wedding off because the curse will not stop unless Maria kills either Edward or Peter on the night of the wedding.

While designing a new gown, she becomes suspicious and worried about it being the same gown that will kill her, due to its uncanny resemblance to the original dress. She wears it anyway, and on the day of their wedding, Katie gets possessed by Maria. In a rage, she destroys the church and kills Edward. Peter stops her, admitting his infidelity and begging her to take him so he can be with Edward. Maria does so, destroying the church in a way that the chandelier smashes Peter's head and reduces it to bits, before taking herself and Peter to be married off in the underworld.

The film ends with the ghosts of Peter and Maria, finally married with the latter turned evil, pulling off the final jumpscare.

Stolen Body
Christine Bustamante is a troubled intern doctor working at the pediatric ward of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Viedma. She is assigned to a girl suffering with what appears to be the flu. The girl behaves angrily towards Christine during her treatment, and before Christine leaves, the girl tells her that she needs a priest, but Christine insists that she is sick with the flu. The girl then shouts at Christine revealing that she is under demonic possession. The girl attacks Christine and runs across the hospital hallways laughing diabolically until she inadvertently throws herself off the hospital to her death, letting out a final cackle of madness before passing out.

Christine's family had been murdered by bandits 2 years ago, forcing her to turn to atheism, before being sent to live with her religious aunt Joyce and eventually reconciling with her Catholic beliefs. She has flashbacks of her family one night, and then experiences nightmares about the patient she last treated. The next morning, Christine begins to suffer hallucinations and hear mysterious voices around her before seeing her ex-boyfriend, a Hispanic Criollo named Raul, performing mass at the Our Lady of Mercy Cathedral. She tries to tell her new boyfriend, aspiring hip-hop producer Steven, about her story only for Steven to dismiss it as a dream. Steven then runs into the possessed girl, who murders him.

Dr. Zane, Christine's colleague, visits Joyce to discuss with her about Christine's unusual behavior. After Joyce explains to Dr. Zane all that happened with Christine, Dr. Zane assures her that she is merely emotionally repressed. Dr. Zane enters Christine's room and tries to reason with her, only for Christine to reveal that she has been possessed herself, attacking Dr. Zane who narrowly escapes murder as Joyce watches on in horror. Panicked, Joyce tries to call Raul and an exorcist named Fr. Peter to perform an exorcism on Christine, however they face a setback as the entrance to their house has been barricaded by multiple effigies of Catholic figures, including the Virgin Mary.

Arriving at the house just in time, Raul and Fr. Peter are attacked by the possessed Christine. Fr. Peter manages to say a few prayers, causing Christine to collapse. Raul's exorcism attempt on Christine fails, and the demonic Christine attacks her ex-boyfriend, who manages to save himself. Christine's demon uses the power of illusion to lure Fr. Peter to the top of a palm tree, and the demon scares Fr. Peter into throwing himself off the tree to his death. The demon within Christine taunts Raul about his relationship with the latter, but Raul tells Christine to fight the demon within her. His attempt ends in vain as she shatters a mirror with her demonic prowess and uses the shards to injure Raul.

With one final attack, the possessed Christine lunges at Raul and lets out a demonic scream, causing him to suffer a fatal heart attack. Christine, now forever merged with the demon, leaves Raul for dead, and sets the house ablaze as she walks away, letting out the same diabolical cackle the girl from the hospital made in the beginning of the segment. The segment finishes with Christine pulling off a similar jumpscare.

The Attack
On December 21, 2012, which happens to fall on the date of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar reaching B'aktun 13, the Kramer family go to the Nickelodeon Universe theme park inside the Rediffusion Television studios in Meliepully. The family go on many of the rides, including the Fairly Odd Coaster and the Jellyfish Gondolas. As the Kramers look for another ride to go on, the theme park is destroyed by an explosion from an unknown source. The family finds themselves trapped in the destroyed theme park with DJs/comedians Zed and Zane, who were planning to visit the park.

After encountering a strange alien capable of electrocuting anything in its path, the Kramers are approached by conspiracy theorist John Ratched, who blames the earlier explosion on invading aliens. They then run into a lobster-like alien who runs away with Zed and presumably kills him. Making their way through the wreckage, they find a little girl traumatized by what happened. An anonymous survivor then runs toward them, telling them that he is being chased by one of the alien creatures. Zane tries to kill the creature, only to be attacked. The alien's headless body pursues the Kramers, the girl, and Ratched.

An unidentified teenage boy is heard, and the Kramers, along with Ratched and the girl, approach it only to realize that they have been led into a trap, with the alien using the boy as bait to lure survivors. The alien kills Ratched and disposes of the boy, while the Kramers flee. They run into a geeky arcade-goer, the only person who knows the emergency exits, and take him along with them. A smaller version of the lobster-like alien chases them off, but it is quickly killed by Khan, an Indian criminal disguising as a white man. Khan had been arrested for trying to kidnap the little girl by posing as his father, but the explosion allowed him to steal a shotgun from the security guard.

After spotting and following a hooded figure in the dark, the survivors realize that said figure is the aliens' overlord. The aliens' mothership then arrives to suck everyone into it, with the geek being lifted away to his doom. He tries to shoot the alien overlord but it keeps teleporting, leaving them no other option. The group finally reach the destroyed Rediffusion newsroom, which has been taken over by multiple of the lobster-like aliens and their mother, who is noticeably bigger and is covered in spikes. Khan gets the Kramers and the girl to leave.

While Khan tries to shoot as many lobster-like aliens as they can, he is eventually killed by the gestator. The Kramers and the little girl manage to escape and overlook the destruction brought upon the now-infested Meliepully, with the ruins of the FRS Broadcasting Tower, the RPL World Headquarters being demolished by alien lasers, and the Place d'Armes set ablaze. The deceased survivors: Zed and Zane, Ratched, the geek and Khan, now hooded figures, appear behind the Kramers, telling them that they have been chosen to be the last of their kind, and will have to start a new generation of humans to fight the aliens off.

Dead Bride's Dress

 * Elizabeth Philips as Katie Downes
 * Randolph Caldecott as Edward Peterson
 * Nate Ruiz as Tom
 * Lauren Wendt as Maria Lowe
 * Patrick Mladinic as Jacob Downes

Stolen Body

 * Kate Mayoraz as Christine Bustamante
 * JJ Winston as Raul Santiago
 * Wesley Heredia as Steven Hague
 * Marcelo Gomez as Father Peter Dandridge

The Attack

 * Edward Wine as Peter Kramer
 * Anna Shelburne as Laura Kramer
 * Julia Metzger as Marianne Kramer
 * Huw Lyons as Finn Kramer
 * Zed and Zane as themselves