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The Third Key (1983)

The Third Key poster
Original title
Treći ključ
Directed by
Zoran Tadić
Genre
horror film
Country
Yugoslavia
Runtime
1h 22m
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man becomes entangled in a bureaucratic system that traps him in a maze of corruption. He struggles to hold onto his identity as the world around him grows increasingly soulless and threatening.

tensebleakslow-burnunsettlingalienatingcerebralclaustrophobicsuspenseful

What happens

for the 1956 Ealing Studios film directed by Charles Frend, see The Long Arm (film). The Third Key (Treći ključ) is a 1983 Croatian film directed by Zoran Tadić, starring Božidar Alić and Vedrana Međimorec. A Kafkian horror film, indirectly touching on the topic of corruption, in showing the alienation and soullessness of modern agglomerations it resembles somewhat the film Someone's Watching Me! by John Carpenter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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