Horror Stories III

The Korean anthology series continues in Horror Stories 3, where a martian seeking asylum (?) shares three stories that, no, don't really have any relation to the interstitial, but hey, that's how the format goes.

HS3 starts out extraordinarily beautiful, with amazing art design that continues through the first story, where pre-industrial travelers arrive at a strange village. And this first story is interesting too, a few scares, a decent bit of creep-- nothing that will blow you away, just a solid enough story.

But the second and third stories are just phoned-in schlock, utterly forgettable, without even the beauty of the earlier parts of the film. A nasty truck driver harasses an unlikable couple, and it's very hard to care about any of them; then, a near-future domestic robot servant goes cuckoo. They're the sort of stories you might see on the fourth season of an anthology television show, where the writers had run out of ideas they wanted to tell and were just filling up time.

The production values are high throughout the film, there is a bit of gore, and there are jump scares and dream sequences, but they're not overdone. Still, the stories and characters put me to sleep. Time must be up for the Horror Stories series.

An Analogy of horror tales stemming from a core story that involves a young (and charming) space traveler who docks upon an extraterrestrial space craft whose inhabitants are hostile to the human race. The stories were interesting enough to keep my attention and mostly avoided redundant tropes. Give it a shot if you like horror anthologies. Its well worth a play but I doubt If I'll remember ever watching it after posting this review.