School Tales

A series to pass the time

I watched School Tales mostly because I had nothing else to watch, but it ended up surprising me. While the visual effects leave something to be desired, the storytelling truly delivers. If you pay attention to the narratives, the fear creeps in, and I couldn’t help but put myself in the characters’ shoes, questioning what I’d do in their place. Each episode tells a different story, and there’s a strong sense of karma that reminds me of Girl From Nowhere's Nanno. It seems deeply tied to regional beliefs or cultural ideas, adding an intriguing layer to the horror.

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Started INTERESTING but Ended as a NOT SO IMPRESSIVE ONE!

Movie and the Series are Not Related.
The common point in the movie n the series is that both are about Rumoured Haunting Ghost stories in High School, shared by the students, late in the night for fun n to pass the time but the haunting actually happening 😂

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Movie started VERY INTERESTING with GOOD Horror Suspense n Jump Scares but ended with a NOT SO POSITIVE IMPRESSION!

The Second Half of the movie is BORING.

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A group of High School students / members of school's Marching Band on one night in the school, Each took turns to share a haunting ghost story rumoured in their school.
There are 4 such stories.

(All these 4 high school haunting stories are very simple, just like rumoured ghost stories that we enjoyed gossiping about, in secret whispers with friends in school days and getting scared for no reason 😂
Same Vibe, screaming for no reason! Haha
Simple but Scary for no reason back then :) )

Later, those 4 students are haunted by the ghosts, same like how they said in the stories.

Here these haunting scenes are VERY GOOD. The horror vibe, the scary suspense, those Jump scares, all are GOOD n will be loved n enjoyed by Horror Lovers :)

And everyone in the friends group together, started solving the haunting stories to ward off the ghosts peacefully, by finding a solution to each ghost story.
From here, the movie got BORING.
The Ending to each story looked PLAIN, Rushed n Boring!

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There's a 5th ghost story (the last one). It gave mixed feelings - not impressive, not bad!

Everything looked simple but a bit confusing at times with the characters.

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Instead of as an Anthology of 5 Different Unrelated Stories happening one after the other,
Here the movie has all 5 Different Haunting Stories Unrelated but Connected by all friends Sharing, Experiencing the Haunting that is happening in parallel n Solving all stories, TOGETHER.

I liked this idea of writing the intertwined stories , All in One!
(stories are not related but everyone experienced it at the same time).

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Good to see few known actors :)
Acting n Direction are mediocre.

Overall, can watch this for fun n to pass the time.
Not Very Boring n at the same time, Not Very Good.

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My RATING is 7 /10.
(7 for the initial interesting horror suspense n jump scares - Good Horror Vibe)

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