School Tales the Series (2022) Season 1
Unspeakable horrors roam the halls of high school in this anthology featuring ghost stories directed by seasoned Thai horror directors.
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Duration : 6h 37min
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Horror is always well-suited to an anthological format. There’s something malleable about the genre that just works as a buffet; here’s a ghost story to start, followed by a bit of demonic possession and a light helping of monster madness. You can have a curse here and a witch there without anything feeling too out of place. Such things are never consistent, pretty much by design, but they’re almost always interesting.
School Tales The Series, a new Thai horror anthology now streaming on Netflix, is pretty interesting. It’s also, like most anthologies, a mixed bag, with some stand-out high points and some clear lows. But the clue is in the title. “School tales” implies a continuity of setting, and while these are eight distinct 50-minute stories, they’re all united by similar backdrops and themes, similarly-aged characters, and some overlapping ideas. There are upsides and downsides to the approach. Most of us were sick of school before we left, after all.
First, the upsides. It’s always worth reminding ourselves how many resonant and crucial themes are bundled up in our school years — bullying, sexuality, self-acceptance, academic pressure, and so on, and so forth. These are all compelling angles to approach horror from, and as is often the case, School Tales is good at developing a social horror that is far more terrifying than anything supernatural. When the supernatural stuff does appear, it’s mostly treated with a little restraint. Whether it’s for budget reasons — I suspect so — or a stylistic choice, most of the bloodletting occurs off-screen here, or is at least glimpsed in the gaps between drapes or as shadows cast ominously against walls.