If you're looking for bone-chilling, hair raising and teeth chattering movie entertainment, then this film is not for you. However, if you want some comedy relief with some ghostly tales mixed in, then this movie is for you. This film, a sequel to 01:00 A.M. and 02:00 A.M., is an anthology of three stories, each one depicting the protagonists' encounter with ghosts. Based on the title of this film, all ghosts appear at the stroke of 3:00 AM.
The first story deals with the spirit of a deceased school-girl accused of stealing a backpack (the accusation led her to commit suicide), who appears before a TV reporter and a skeptical psychologist to deny the theft and proclaim her innocence. The second story deals with a group of vacationing blabbermouth girls and their encounter with an apparition of a woman and a young boy at their island resort; and the third story deals with two construction workers' eerie run-in with a phantom of a man roaming around the building site.
The acting is OK; much of the actors were overzealous and overacted in their roles. The stories were a little intriguing, more suspenseful than the stories in the previous film but not as captivating as the first film. In addition, I thought the first story ***spoiler ahead*** created too much irony; the young girl's suicidal death could have been prevented if she would just have located the receipt for the backpack, proving she in fact bought it herself. ***spoiler ends*** While the film is loaded with some silly comedy and crude innuendos, there are actually some scary and creepy scenes, especially in the second and third stories.
The music score is chilling and the directing is not bad overall. Despite some of the silly acting, it's not a bad film for some comedy and moderate horror entertainment.
Grade B-
The first story deals with the spirit of a deceased school-girl accused of stealing a backpack (the accusation led her to commit suicide), who appears before a TV reporter and a skeptical psychologist to deny the theft and proclaim her innocence. The second story deals with a group of vacationing blabbermouth girls and their encounter with an apparition of a woman and a young boy at their island resort; and the third story deals with two construction workers' eerie run-in with a phantom of a man roaming around the building site.
The acting is OK; much of the actors were overzealous and overacted in their roles. The stories were a little intriguing, more suspenseful than the stories in the previous film but not as captivating as the first film. In addition, I thought the first story ***spoiler ahead*** created too much irony; the young girl's suicidal death could have been prevented if she would just have located the receipt for the backpack, proving she in fact bought it herself. ***spoiler ends*** While the film is loaded with some silly comedy and crude innuendos, there are actually some scary and creepy scenes, especially in the second and third stories.
The music score is chilling and the directing is not bad overall. Despite some of the silly acting, it's not a bad film for some comedy and moderate horror entertainment.
Grade B-
