These rules occasionally include human sacrifice and Grace is chucked into a to-the-death game of hide and seek on her wedding night.
Unexpectedly Grace wins, killing the whole Le Domas family, but now this opens up a seat at the table of the global cabal of Satanists. Mr Le Bail's rules say she must contest for this.
CW: bloody violence throughout
This time it's a launch for DNA genealogy startup and the bag contains one of their testing kits. On a whim she submits it and hears back in a few days she's related to a wealthy English family. She meets up with the foppish Oliver (Hugh Skinner) who's been put in touch with her and he invites her to a big family wedding. With nothing much else going on in her life she accepts.
No good will come of this.
CW: mild jump scares and some bloodletting
It seems his intentions are genuine: he's trying to agree an international treaty on access to the new wonder material Adamantium found on Celestial Island and reaches out to Captain America (Anthony Mackie), who he once imprisoned, to reform the Avengers.
However following an assassination attempt Ross reverts to paranoid form leaving Cap to find out what's really going on.
Now three years later the medical supplies that keep his son alive are exhausted so Will (Anthony Mackie) decides he has to go down into the nearest city to search for more. He is accompanied by hunter Katie (Maddie Hasson) and antisocial scientist Nina (Morena Baccarin) who has been working on something that might kill the "Reapers". She just needs to get to her old lab...
No good will come of this.
A young woman (Samara Weaving) and her lover (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) attempt to flee the community.
No good will come of this.
CW: bloody violence, bloody weird
Out of the night comes F.W. Colqhoun (Robert Carlyle), a Scottish immigrant with a dread tale of cannibalism amongst travellers lost in the mountains not that far away.
The Fort's First Nation scout warns of The Wendigo: what a man who has eaten human flesh becomes but nonetheless an expedition to the caves is organised.
No good will come of this.
CW: cannibalism
The crew are a superstitious lot and when they spot she's a redhead almost turn back and put her ashore.
Some time into the outward leg they strike something large which they get entangled with and as Siobhán has said she wishes to do a dive they send her down to see what it is.
No good will come of this.
CW: injury detail, body horror, suicide
In the basement her stepdaughter Alice (Pyper Braun) finds an old Teddy Bear and christens it Chauncey.
No good will come of this.
In his last few minutes Reese mocks those around him and launches into a rendition of "Time is on my side" before expiring.
Soon afterwards people start dying in ways uncannily similar to Reese's victims so Hobbes starts digging into the footage from the documentary in case something from that might reveal clues to who his accomplice/copycat is.
No good will come of this.
However the linking stuff is a kind of nonsensical Police chase with an ice cream truck that also causes "viral violence" or something harking back to the cursed footage ideas we've had before but it's just laboured beyond belief.
Then there's the SK8R Boys one which is just trash, where did this idea even come from it's like it was created because the director knew people who could skateboard.
Not great 5/10.
It's a mixed bag. One of the stories is chopped up and used as linking items but when it gets to the end doesn't really go anywhere. The standouts are "Stowaway" where a lone UFO hunting podcaster tracks down and boards an alien ship and "Dream Girl" where Indian paparazzi try to get candid shots of a starlet.
I've not watched one of these before as I'd expected quite low rent straight to streaming horror and that was pretty much what I got. It's hard to rate anthologies fairly but I think overall this comes in at about 5/10. It suffered from some segments having a weak premise but good execution, vice-versa or just not enough time/money spent on it to fully develop.
Still interesting though despite my low overall rating and I might give other instalments a look.
No good will come of this.
CW: bullying
Nobody crosses the Mayor but local crime boss Mr Besegai decides to raid the party and steal the cash. When the rumour gets out he's going to try roll the Mayor nobody will take the job except the desperate: ex-con Cobby (Casey Affleck) and down on his luck ex-Marine Rory (Matt Damon).
No good will come of this.
No good will come of this.
On the way to visit her parents a man claiming to be a real spy (Sam Rockwell) tells her she's in danger and that she must go with him.
No good will come of this.
While searching for rebels and in need of resupply a Motherworld dreadnought "The King's Gaze" comes to the agricultural settlement Veldt and Admiral Noble (Ed Skrein) demands the locals hand over their entire harvest.
Leaving a small contingent behind the dreadnought departs with Noble promising to return in ten weeks.
Following a fatal altercation with the ill-disciplined Motherland troops, Kora (Sophia Boutella) an offworlder they've taken in, makes it clear that this now means the Veldt will be razed to the ground and they must recruit people able to fight and defend themselves when "The King's Gaze" returns.
Kora and the farmer Gunnar (Michiel Huisman) begin their search for rebels, mercenaries and outcasts willing to stand up to the Motherworld.
Being quite naive about this sort of thing he immediately comes to the attention of multiple Intelligence agencies causing a scramble to get hold of the device.
Will works as a therapist, seeing patients in his home office. One day a troubled man comes to see him without an appointment.
No good will come of this.
CW: Jump scares
Currently they're touring rural France looking for things to feature on their YouTube channel.
When the expected destination is crowded with tourists, Ben gets a tip on a flooded valley with an intact house at the bottom from a local.
No good will come of this.
CW: jump scares, drowning
It is months after the arrival of spectral forces that drive most who see them to suicide and the streets are littered with corpses and the detritus of societal collapse. The only way to travel outdoors is to cover your eyes and resist the tempting whispers to look.
Some who see become zealots, forcefully making the reluctant look and these are the greatest threat of all.
CW: suicide by various means