Seeing “Three Extremes” is like receiving a small box of fancy chocolates. The chocolates look delicate, gently crafted, and pretty. But then you bite into one and the taste is unusually complex: kind of sour and disgusting but oddly engaging. Maybe this analogy isn’t the best. The point is this: “Three Extremes” gives you three intensely artful and haunting movies. They have their moments of utter gross-out but they’re all pieced together through a lens of fragile beauty. They are human stories with the occasional deranged twist.

The three short films are a sampling of the most popular contemporary East Asian horror directors: Chan-wook Park (“Oldboy,” “Joint Security Area”), Takashi Miike (“Ichi the Killer,” “Audition”) and Fruit Chan. I’d be lying if I said I was familiar with Fruit Chan’s work, but I emphasize that his contribution is shot by THE Christopher Doyle. Mr. Doyle is responsible for the cinematography of “In the Mood for Love” and “2046,” whose beauty entranced us all last weekend. But the three movies in “Three Extremes” are still twisted horror fun. I watched them on a crappy import DVD in Jordan Schulkin’s living room and their intensity was a solid punch in the gut. See these on the big screen.There are some other films this week: The Misfits (Friday at 8 p.m.), Newsies (Saturday at Midnight!), and Elephant Man (next Thursday at 8 p.m.). But wutevs. None of them got 3X the EAST ASIAN HORROR CINEMA!