The Third Part of the Night1972

Horror Vault's take

Against the brutal backdrop of Nazi-occupied Poland, one man's world is shattered in an instant of savage violence — and what follows is a descent into something far stranger than grief. Director Andrzej Żuławski crafts a hallucinatory wartime nightmare in which reality bends, familiar faces multiply, and the boundaries of self begin to dissolve. Drawing on his own family's wartime experiences, the film blurs historical horror with surreal psychological dread in ways that feel both deeply personal and deeply unsettling. This is Polish cinema at its most visceral and uncompromising.

Content: Violence, Death Of Family Members Including A Child, Depictions Of Wartime Atrocity, Disturbing Surreal Imagery, Themes Of Disease And Death