Two Sentence Horror Stories is a horror anthology series made for the digital age that is inspired by the virality of online fictive horror stories that are two sentences long. This series is featured only on Netflix, and it’s third season has just recently been released on January 16th, 2022. Each episode is roughly 20 minutes long and features an interpretive take on the horror story that the episode is based off of. This allows viewers to see a live version of these stories play out, while still leaving them guessing at how it will end, as the show only lets viewers see what it is based on at the very end.
The show takes a diverse cast of characters to make commentary on various social issues while also keeping an engaging plot to keep viewers hooked until the last second and have them leaving with an open mind. This show can spend twenty minutes showing us a clip into the lives of characters we will never see again and have us rooting for them to survive or cheering for their deaths at the claws of the story.
For an example of how this series provides an amazingly new light into horror as a genre, I’ll give us a look at the 8th episode of the 3rd season, “Erased”. Erased is based on the story “There’s a stranger in my house… I think it’s me.” This could have been some boring story about amnesia and someone breaking into the wrong house but the writer of this episode, Liz Hsiao Lan Alper, wrote a story about a woman desperately trying to keep Hawaiian culture alive.
Ms. Alper created a shot into a painful reality for many people and used the aspect of horror to illustrate how terrifying this is for the people it is affecting while also showing what could happen to other cultures as an effect of gentrification and culture erasure. This is a show that utilizes on screen terror to show the horror of various social, emotional, or physical horrors. If this has made you interested in watching, I will warn you, the show does show many potentially triggering things, as well as scenes of gore, so I would advise looking up the content before watching
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