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.

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 man who gets possessed by a character from his favorite video game after a paranormally-induced glitch. 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, they notice and enter a house 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 tries to make the church collapse so she can kill Edward, however Peter stops her, admitting his infidelity and begging her to take him instead of 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 wedding continues, but the gown walks towards them and bows, asking for forgiveness. It is implied that she was forgiven, which was confirmed by the creator.

Stolen Body

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The Attack

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