3096 Days ( 2013 )

Movie review score

3096 Days - " Devil is Within "

One truly horrifying movie among many other films made based on True events. This film a German Biopic is based on the true story of Natascha Kampusch a 10-year old girl and her eight-year struggle being kidnapped by Wolfgang Priklopil. In this movie the actual names have been changed Wolfgang Priklopil as Thure Lindhardt and Natascha Kampusch as Antonia Campbell.

A cute little 10 year old girl Antonia abducted by a maniac Thure while on her way to school in year 1998 and this idiot sadist Psychopath had a Secret Basement in his mansion from where it would still lead to a underground Dungeon like Vietnamese dug rabbit holes or Nazi's small underground bunkers. This Dungeon which you can see in below pictures can itself be one horrible prison ever built. He took her , locked her down not one day or one month but instead for a complete 8 years and one must understand the pain she would have gone through each day being in that prison. She was totally traumatized as she was subjected to physical and mental abuses n tortures , she lost of pounds during her captive as she was made to starve and she did attempt suicide several attempts before she finally escaped from clutches of this maniac on year 2006. Priklopil later had no choice but to ran into a running train commits suicide after Natascha escaped. But this is all in biography of her and you could see that on many documentary links i provided. But what matters is how perfectly this movie was made depicting her pain and life in Dungeon through 3096 days.

Maker Sherry Hormann really did a great job replicating the scenarios , places and that goes to even the Dungeon in Thure basement. I guess he really gave attention to detail and brought it as close to real time events. Though the movie had short run time which it couldn't show more incidents in detail on what happened through 3096 days but Sherry did manage to capture important parts necessary to give the right impact to the viewers. This is one of most disturbing movie seen and you couldnt stop empathizing yourself for that poor girl by placing yourself in her shoes . Every scene was horrible and the way he uses her tortures her , abuses her was more inhuman. This is one of finest biopics i have seen and a very haunting movie to the core. We notice biopics of famous people but sometimes we forget to even look at people like Natascha for she proved to be a example for resistance , perseverance and determination. This is a much recommended movie for any movie fan and i urge you to watch it. Donot not miss it.

Thure Lindhardt and Antonia Campbell in movie

For those who are interested to know the true story of it...Got through below article , pics and links but first watch the movie

Article :-

For more than eight years she was held captive in an underground dungeon, at the mercy of a deranged kidnapper who called her 'my slave'.In her compelling autobiography - serialized exclusively in the Daily Mail from today - Miss Kampusch describes how she was:

    Locked inside a 'hermetically sealed' concrete jail
    Beaten up to 200 times a week until she heard her own spine 'snap';
    Manacled to her captor while they slept together in his bed;
    Forced to shave off her hair and work half-naked as a domestic slave;
    Driven to repeated suicide attempts to end her life in captivity.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1309296/Natascha-Kampusch-autobiography-Girl-snatched-stranger-held-8-years.html#ixzz2nB5qdG1f

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwomu8ulzzI ( Inside look at Priklopil's House )

Real Story:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAxRCnoa9Aw ( Abductee Natascha Kampusch speaks out about her 8 years in captivity )

Documentry :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIUVni5-jUE ( The case of Natascha Kampusch - Part 1 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twWDtt28IUI ( The case of Natascha Kampusch - Part 2 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Te8PS2mY8w ( The case of Natascha Kampusch - Part 3 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPZa4vJlmNc ( Natascha Kampusch First Interview after abduction - Interview part 1 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqV63gR54ao ( Natascha Kampusch First Interview after abduction - Interview part 2 )
Trivia : In late 2012, there were concerns about Campbell-Hughes' drastic weigh-loss for the film, however she stated in an interview in the Evening Standard that she wanted "to suffer as much as she - Kampusch - did". She also noted that she has received a torn achilles tendon, a broken toe, a fractured rib and various cuts and bruises, due to the set of film being similar to the dungeon Kampusch was placed in

Below are Real Pics :-