III Slices of Life

Plot synopsis:
"Sexual parasites, disembowelment, zombies, serial killers, demon children, violent vixens, rabid office workers, aliens, mummies, skeleton warriors, vampires, werewolves, dragons, medusa, beasts, giants, robots, cyclops' and angry mmbryos all spring to life from the flesh covered sketch books featured in Anthony G. Sumner’s (Gallery of Fear) Slices of Life.
Mira (Kaylee Williams) awakens in front of a seedy roadside motel with amnesia. She searches for clues to her identity in the pages of three bound sketchbooks, in which each book represents a different aspect of everyday life, maybe her life.
WORK LIFE
A lowly clerk at a nano technology firm unleashes a deadly virus at the office headquarters, giving new meaning to the term corporate zombie.
HOME LIFE
As local girls begin to disappear, a young pregnant woman is haunted by visions of evil demonic children hell bent on stealing her unborn fetus.
SEX LIFE
A young brother and sister on the run from a sexually abusive home life, take refuge in a countryside Victorian manor- only to discover the monsters hidden in this house have been looking for a new home.
Convinced that the characters from these books are roaming around the motel, Mira’s reality begins to crumble. Are these visions real or is she going insane? Desperate, Mira turns to the motel caretakers (Marv Blauvelt and Helene Alter-Dyche), only to discover the true evil bound in the flesh covered books and the destiny they hold for her.
At home… at work… at play… terror is never far away."

Tags: violence

Review:
I was hoping to be able to look past the budget and enjoy the film.Unfortunately it is impossible to look past non professional actors and watch a film in which this will be the only movie the main characters will be in because it just makes you want to cringe wit every line of dialog spoken.This has three stories and a wraparound story much like Creep show.
The only story bearable is the final of the three.The movie is not scary, has zero tension, and when it attempts humor it falls flat on its face.I do not recommend this movie to even die hard horror fans.
I do believe the stories could have been rewritten and made into a good little horror flick.
After reading the six reviews here, and then watching the film, I can only conclude that these six are either friends of the actors, or they work for the production company.
Dreadful.In Home Life the acting improved, and it showed some early promise of wit, but the wretched screen play fizzled out before the end.
And yet this part was the pick of a bad lot.Sex Life, had it been played for humor, might have been marginally entertaining, especially the scene that's a takeoff on the movie TEETH, but on steroids.
The last one is of the "kids run out of gas and find a place" variety which manages to throw a history twist and but then goes straight into the dumpster halfway in.This movie could've been a WHOLE lot better and that's the real waste here (and why the movie gets only a 3)..
After the first story I was ready to turn it off but instead I went to IMDb.com and saw the good reviews and thought maybe one of the other stories would have some redeeming factors, unfortunately I was wrong if you have already rented this movie quickly burn it..
But this - uh, movie - this is one of the most boring, lame and totally dumb films I have ever seen.
I read some of the first reviews, but like my predecessor said, they must have been friends of either the director or the production company.
As a fan of low budget and indie films I was so disappointed in this movie.
I have seen better acting in grade school plays, seriously it amazes me that these "actors" are not embarrassed by this disaster of a film.
Half of them were surely even written by the same person as they end in the same way, with an enthusiastic, "If you want to see a great movie or great horror or a good time or whatever, see Slices of Life" followed by an exclamation point.
I think it's disheartening to see that some people worked so hard (it isn't easy, I know that, whether you're making something good or bad, filmmaking requires some real effort) on something that turned out to be garbage.All that there's left to say is, if you want to see a great horror movie with gore-galore and plenty of laughs.....
From the first few minutes of "Slices of Life" you can clearly see that this movie will be dumb, dull and amateurish - but in fact it is much worse than one might imagine.In this textbook example of mediocrity you can find more or less each and every aspect of a horrible movie: annoying and stupid characters, senseless and retarded plot(s), terrible sound and miserable special effects.
And of course basically non-existent acting in general.Considering that it was just an indie movie without a huge budget, I would gladly overlook those poor effects and maybe the stiff acting - but the plot was so stupid (in all short stories) and there were so many flaws and continuity errors, that there is no excuse anymore.
I have seen students with no experience or funds making and posting better short clips/movies/songs/spoofs on Youtube than this pathetic movie, Not only it disappoints you for seeking a good horror movie but it will make you hold a grudge against these no life actors who made this terrible joke.If this is what they call acting is,then I guess I'm done watching movies...
It is so lame and badly acted that words aren't enough..the only way one can understand the viewers pain is to actually watch the movies themselves..
Or 3 Slices of Life as the film seems be called in the credits is a low-budget anthology film featuring amateur actors and lots of gore.
As she reads each the film fades into to tell the story.
As each story ends she find that they are describing real events W.O.R.M – a lonely nerd working in the basement of a large marketing company thinks he has found a solution to getting people to like him but his plan goes very wrong.
After taking him to the hospital they return to house and find his daughter locked up in the basement.The amateur acting film is definitely going to be a major turn-off for most people especially in the wraparound story but I kept watching and I have to say that the stories and the special effects really made it worth the effort.
This movie was forced upon me at a friends house and I should be clear that I did not enjoy it at all.Firstly I'd like to mention the acting.
Each one of the "actors" puts up a truly terrible performance and I don't believe that it's a matter of them trying to do it on purpose, these are just purely untalented people.The production value of the film is also laughable.
It looks like some kid filmed it and used any number of computer programs to add his own gore and silly effects after he was done.The stories themselves were pretty predictable as you could easily tell how they were going to come twisting around since the poorly written script and even more awfully acted portion instantly gave away any surprises that would be coming later in that particular story.This has to be one of the most awful "films" I've ever seen, if not the absolute worst.
Making bold statements as fact such as 'only people involved in this movie submitted all the decent reviews' are ridiculous, because how could you possibly know that!?
I am purely a horror movie fan with a great love of independent cinema.
Slices of Life is a gem.Focusing on three stories (Work Life, Home Life and Sex Life) with a genuinely intriguing wrap around story (featuring a very sweet and vulnerable Kaylee Williams) the film far exceeds expectations considering its very low budget.The first tale 'WORM' (Work Life) is a hilarious story of a nano virus gone horribly wrong; resulting in a blood bath of body horror and out and out gore.
Admittedly it is the least enjoyable of the three but that isn't to take away from its worth.Second up 'Amber Alert' (Home Life) is a dark tale of kidnapped children, a young pregnant woman haunted by demonic forces and a deeply disturbing truth which rears its head at the end in gory fashion - *ahem* sledgehammer scene!!!
Toya Turner as the pregnant-lead-in-peril shines here as her character 'Vonda' and she really raises the bar for acting within independent horror.Finally you have the craziest segment of the bunch 'Pink Snapper' involving a brother and sister on the run, a house masking a terrible secret and gore galore.
Deneen Melody plays the perfect damaged women character, 'Susan', in this tale who, after supposedly killing her abusive uncle, stumbles upon an even greater horror, along with her brother Eric (Galen Shloeming).
This one was my favourite of the bunch and really ended the anthology part of the movie on a blood splattered high.The wrap around segment ties things up in an interesting and highly original fashion but again I wouldn't want to spoil anything.
Slices of Life is one of those indie horror flicks that needs to be seen – it's well made, well acted and really delivers the horror goods.
I am sure I will be accused of being the director's brother on the back of this but I don't mind - I truly loved Slices of Life and I know it's very quickly finding its audience which is just fantastic..
"Slices" hearkens back to those horror anthologies of the '80s where there are a number of story segments (in this case three of them) along with a wraparound story that brings them all together.
Each story has its own tone, look, and feel that probably owes much to the film's length of production, with each segment looking better than the last.
I don't remember the segments names, but story-wise there are Office Techno-Zombies, Demon Kids, Vagina Monsters, and Magic Books of Flesh!
I went with a couple of friends, and each of us had a different favorite story segment.Considering how low budget the film must have been, the end result is very impressive.
The 'movie' looks as though it was shot with a poor quality home video camera.
Obviously, I wasn't anything great or even good but at least something entertaining which '3 Slices of Life' fails to deliver..
Anthony's writing and directing and Eric's cinematography brought to life the anguished and tormented characters, so well portrayed by the wonderfully-talented actors!
I recommend this movie to anyone looking for a good horror movie that doesn't take itself too seriously..
I saw this film at its premiere at the Chicago Horror Society Festival and found it to be a lot of of fun and pretty creepy.
Slices of Life is an anthology of three short horror films with a wraparound story to tie the films together.
The stories themselves are a lot of fun - very reminiscent of Tales from the Crypt, Creep Show, and other 80's horror.
These are definitely actresses to keep your eye on!Check out Slices of Life - it's a great low-budget indie horror movie that feels like a 80's film.
SLICES OF LIFE really does have something for every horror fan.
The first segment, "Work Life," focuses on an unpopular clerk at a Nano Technology firm who unleashes a bizarre virus that transforms the workers into an assortment of zombies.
"Home Life" tells of a young pregnant woman who is tormented by visions of demonic children while a series of local girls mysteriously disappear.
In the final segment, "Sex Life," a young brother and sister flee a sexually abusive home life and seek refuge in a countryside Victorian manor, where further horrors await them.
This indie film truly is better than any big-budget studio horror produced today..
I almost had zero expectation from this Movie But It turned Out to be One of the Best Anthology Movies i have ever seen in Hollywood.I wonder why the rating is 3.2 and which mean people have rated this movie Below 7 as it deserves above 6 at least.SLICES OF LIFE is a combination of 3 Horror stories.
WORK LIFE is a story of a lowly clerk at a nano technology firm unleashes a deadly virus at the office headquarters, giving new meaning to the term corporate zombie.The story is lil weak compared to other two.
HOME LIFE is a story of a local girls begin to disappear, a young pregnant woman is haunted by visions of evil demonic children hell bent on stealing her unborn fetus.I found it to be the best of the three stories.Visual effects has impressed me a lot.SEX LIFE is a story of a young brother and sister on the run from a sexually abusive home life.The Twist at the end of this story will make you shock for sure.On the Flip side, The Original story of a girl working in a hotel doesn't make any sense.Overall SLICES OF LIFE is a Horror Anthology at its very Best.You can't afford to Miss this Flick being a Horror Fan.Highly Recommended.9/10 from My side..
I feel like direction may have been seriously lacking for the multitude of actors in this film.
Work life features meaningless dialogue with characters who have no impact on the story (stretching a thin plot for length).
Not caring much about or for the protagonist means the climax (if not the whole story) is meaningless...which a girl who likes a guy who feels lonely being shot in the head is a pretty poor climax regardless.
Home Life (book 2) starts out promising but quickly falls flat as the set up is trumped by an over eager jump into the horror.
The 4th frame story is just weak and pointless with zero pay off as of course the girl named Mira is in fact Irma...must have taken a page from Troll 2.
Look, bottom line is this should have been just the stories as shorts, this way the proper funds and time could be allocated to make the stories more interesting and the final screen product more valuable and entertaining.
Romero's CREEPSHOW but also owning much to the classic British omnibus flicks from Amicus and other studios (TALES FROM THE CRYPT [1972] comes to mind), 3 SLICES OF LIFE -- I shall drop the Romans as the end credits revert to the Latin -- is a mixed bag but one that, in the end, I liked.
The best episode in the trilogy, SEX LIFE, closes the film.
The acting in SEX LIFE is, likewise, far better than in the preceding segments, HOME LIFE and WORK LIFE.
However, SEX LIFE (as with the rest of the segments) suffers from director-writer Anthony G.
SEX LIFE is good enough to stand alone without the baggage of 3 SLICE's framing story or the other pieces, of which the framing story is the most valid.
The second segment, HOME LIFE is also smartly framed, presenting some truly frightening ghost children who haunt the very pregnant protagonist.
The bane of many low-budget horror movie directors is they give up and rely on banal in-jokes and references to other movies to cover up obvious plot holes; or, they are just lazy and think a good wink and a nod in the direction of zombified George Romero-isms will tide them over.
Sumner cheats us in the latter way in the first tale, WORK LIFE.
3 SLICES OF LIFE succeeds admirably in some ways, especially in the last segment.
When i read the review, the idea looked nice: 3 stories in one movie.The opening looked promising, a girl wakes up, confused, and is put back to work by her (weird, drunk?) boss.
When she reads it, you see the story.The idea of the first sequence is nice; to program people to like you.
and i do NOT mean that the acting or the story is so nice/great: A brother and sister escape from their father, who sexually abuses his daughter.
Weird story..Overall, the zombies in the movie look like they have been made by the "zombie booth" app for your smart phone, awful and not scary at all.
I laughed out loud a couple of times because of the crappy sfx and storyline.I recommend to NOT watch this movie is you are an "experienced" horror fan, you will end up laughing out loud and regret the fact that you wasted an hour and a half of your precious time.
Even then i would not recommend you to watch this movie, but instead look a bit further.The idea of the movie is nice, but the result is really disappointing and a total waste of time!.
This is by far the best indie horror film I've seen, and I've seen many!
Horror anthology low on scares and humor, terrible on acting and cinematography..
Oi, there's a rotary telephone receiver.The first book was about WORM; the protagonist is an office drone named William, who works at Nimrod Enterprises.After completing the WORM section, Mira talks to Tiny and Irma, then starts reading again.
This time, it is the Amber Alert section of the picture book.Vonda and Ally visit Mira, then Mira starts reading the Pink Snapper segment.After Mira finishes Pink Snapper, a drunk comes in followed by Susan.
Mira kills Irma, and Irma's spirit (or whatever) passes to Irma as low energy lightning.------Work Life Segment: W.O.R.M---WilliamOne meaning of WORM is the derisive nickname that a lazy co-worker gives William.
The authorities contain this, and lock up William because he started it, because he did not turn into a zombie, and they don't understand why not.------Home Life Segment: Amber Alert--Vonda, Lamont, AllyVonda is quite pregnant.
The baby decides to show up about then as well.This segment has a happy ending, except for Lamont.------Sex Life Segment: Pink Snapper---Susan, EricSusan gets a call from her brother Eric while her drunken cop uncle Jack sleeps.
Sort of.------Scores-------Cinematography: 0/10 Sound: 8/10 Acting: 0/10 Hire some actors next time.Screenplay: 4/10 Not executed well, but there were story ideas in each segment, and the ending made sense, given the nonsense that preceded it.
This is a really low budget movie but I totally enjoyed it.
The stories are fun and have a twist, the production value and effects are really good and it never takes itself too seriously.
I recommend this to low budget horror fans who liked the first Evil Dead, Basket Case, Bad Taste and other imaginative low budget horror movies.
It definitely has that low budget-indie feel to it but you quickly forgive that because you immediately get sucked into the story.I loved the concept, plus there are definitely some very creepy and bloody moments..
The not-so-good story would be the Home Life segment (also titled Amber Alert).
The better segments include Work Life: W.O.R.M.
The wraparound segment was not so great, since I expected quite a better twist ending.
The stories are at the core of the movie.
But who watches anthology horror movies for the framing device?
I'm not a fan of computer work that looks fake, and there's a decent amount in this story.
The story itself is probably better than this filming let on.