Director David Lynch is known for his surrealist aesthetics of experimental cinematography and embraces it ten-fold in his 2011 cursed short film, The 3Rs. The short is under two minutes long, but contains a wealth of horror and confusion. Its most perplexing and haunting aspect is its meditation on the question, “How many rocks does Pete have?”
Lynch gained notoriety with his nuanced indie body horror film Eraserhead (1977) that explores the fears of fatherhood. Prior to the completion of his first full feature, he mastered the craft of experimental filmography while attending the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He created various shorts that explored the nuances of everyday life and adulthood. It was under this setting that he became a father for the first time and conceived of the idea for Eraserhead. Despite the successes of his feature length films, his shorts have retained a sense of wonderment among fans. Major studios have even requested that Lynch transform his short films into larger bodies of work.
This fact alone lends to the importance of The 3Rs and the exploration of the nuanced chaos that he portrays in just under two-minutes. It is uncomfortable to say the least but that’s a key component of Lynchian films. The 3Rs is shot entirely in black and white to create a sense of ambiguity, shaky camerawork, and inexplicable sounds from off screen. Remarkably, David Lynch created one of the shortest and most unsettling horror films of all time; this is what makes The 3Rs a cursed cinematic masterpiece.
The Curse of The 3Rs Explained
While Lynch initially released the short as a trailer at the Vienna Film Festival in 2011, it appears that nothing every truly came from it in the form of a full feature. Regardless, his ability to captivate an audience with the absurdist complexities of the short earned it cursed credentials. It is reminiscent of Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) season 3, episode 8, “Part 8”, which is shot entirely in black and white, features the same sounds of static in the 2011 short, and creates a sense of disillusion in the viewer. By utilizing this technique, Lynch draws the viewer away from Pete in The 3Rs and replaces the question of how many rocks he may have to what happened to him and why.
Aesthetically, it resembles shorts common to unsettling and extreme cinema offerings which feature symbolic representations of murder, mayhem, chaos, and anything under the umbrella of horror. The 3Rs is not a literal cursed film, but its imagery leaves a lasting impression that unsettles the viewer well after walking away from the screen and creates the feeling of it being cursed. This short arrived six years before the reboot of Twin Peaks. In that regard, the fact that the elements within The 3Rs such as the appearance of Pete, the static, disillusionment, and off-screen sounds lend to the idea that the short was a prototype for the iconic return.
In short, there is no proof that The 3Rs is cursed in any capacity. The length of the short alongside its disturbing imagery resembles the VHS tape discovered in The Ring (2002) that kills people in seven days, but there is no proof that this short has such power. The 3Rs is David Lynch at his prime, it leaves questions open ended, provokes more question to be asked, and offers an audience an intense viewing experience with surreal aesthetics in just under two minutes.
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