in 3 tagen bist du tot ( dead in three day ) be label austria first horror film . a quite passable one and i might add . it probably would not become a milestone within the genre and but if youre look for real suspense and gore and this movie have plenty to offer . like many others and the film feature a group of teenager and more precisely two boy and two girl who have just graduate high school . while theyre out celebrate and they all receive the same sms represent within 3 day you will be dead . it have to be a ( very ) bad joke and they think . until one of them be find dead in the river the following morning . i be positively surprise by this movie and mainly because the director and andreas prochaska ( a former collaborator of michael haneke ) know how to terrify his audience even if the plot be all too familiar represent 75 % of the screenplay be shamelessly borrow from other horror film and some blatantly ( i know what you do last summer and deep red ) and others in a more subtle way ( halloween ) . there also stuff from other kind of flick ( a possible visual the empire strike back reference ) . prochaska do and however and count on the surprise factor a well represent not all in the script be a deja vu and and he take advantage of those moment when we do not know what gon na happen next to scare u witless and with almost sadistic joy ( in term of how off guard be catch ) . people get hurt or kill in painful and stomach churning way ( i have trouble sleep for a few day after see the movie ) and and some victim be unexpected and too . this guy know how to do horror and that for sure . if only he would be a little nastier with the end and like greg mcclean do on wolf creek . overall and this be a decent horror film . prochaska seem to have find a promising start for his direct career . if he take good care of the script next time and he might even be able to join the like of carpenter and romero in the genre hall of fame .