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The Three Trials is a 2006 American surreal dark drama film by musician Randy Greif.

Plot
Catherine (Molinee Green) is a novitiate who suffers from a unique form of narcolepsy. When she catches a priest (Michael Q. Schmidt) and nun (Sirena Scott) engaging in bizarre sex, she is punished by the priest who sends her on three personal trials to test her resolve and her suitability as a nun. She attempts to lose herself in the worlds of religion, adolescent fantasy, and finally a masochistic devotion to a man. That man, a plastic surgeon who becomes her husband, has evolved from a yeti-like creature to accommodate her masochism with increasingly extreme and bizarre rituals.

"Catherine witnesses the sexual encounter of the Father of her convent and the Mother Superior. For her 'crime' of being a witness, she is taken to a gothic cathedral (portrayed as a monstrous boiler room in a fire-destroyed building) and is made to confess, under the shady and powerful hands of 'The Fixer' and 'The Right Arm Of God'. She dreams of living in a lovely castle, and inhabits that dream, until she learns of a plan to sacrifice her because she has become an object of sexual desire for the rulers of the castle. With the help of her friend, Julia, Catherine escapes by sewing herself into the skin of the fox in the fox hunt. Surrounding the castle, in the forest, she encounters a furry beast who saves her from the hunters and takes her to live with him in a cave. As they fall in love, he becomes more human, but as he evolves, finally into a plastic surgeon, he becomes more cruel, but she insists on even more cruel behavior. It remains unclear as to whether these events are part of Catherine's own fantasy world, or, in fact, actually happening. Catherine is treated to small kindnesses and formal romance in between acts of masochistic perversion. In a desperate attempt to completely disappear into her lover, she demands for him to take away her free will and to live in a state of complete devotion. At the conclusion, Catherine is taken to 'the theater' where that devotion is put to the ultimate test in what becomes a ritual of transformation."

Read more: http://twitchfilm.com/2006/11/update-on-randy-greifs-the-three-trials.html#ixzz34QFhBI9v

Cast

 * Molinee Green as Catherine
 * Max Herholz as Beast
 * Michael Q. Schmidt as Priest
 * Åsa Wallander as Julia
 * Thomas Crnkovich as The Fixer
 * Peter Choyce as Creepy Man
 * Buddy Luv as he Right Arm of God
 * Sirena Scott as Mother Superior Rachel
 * Sasha Peralta as Terri
 * Valentine Snow as Reading Nymph
 * Anna B. as Walking Nymph
 * Sherri Wheatley as Bellydancer
 * Helios as Fire Performer
 * Tiffany Trenda as Fire Performer
 * Mike Lynn as Leper, Waiter
 * Randy Greif as Hunter
 * Sharon Yablon as Doctor's Receptionist
 * Robert Rawlinson as Man in cage
 * Brandy Bayliss as Dominatrix Deadwood

Release
The film premiered in Los Angeles on February 10, 2006 and had DVD release on October 10, 2007, 2 days before screening at the Lausanne Underground Film Festival in Switzerland.

Reception

 * JoBlo
 * Twitchfilm
 * Mondo Digital