Netflix's "Love, Death and Robots" series returns for a Third run. Overall, I enjoyed the first two seasons and wrote short individual reviews for each episode and I think I'll take the same approach here.
A special forces team are tracking a hostage across the mountains of Afghanistan. They track and follow the terrorists into a cave system and, after discovering some skeletons, stripped of all flesh, discover that the dark holds a threat worse than any they were anticipating. But as they head deeper and deeper in, they discover an ancient horror, imprisoned, but yearning for freedom.
I often like the idea of the usage of Eldritch horror in media, more than I end up liking the execution, but this was, I thought, pretty well done. It's not extraordinary visually, but about par with higher end video game cut scenes - which makes sense if it was made in the unreal engine. The characters played by Joe Manganiello, Jai Courtney and Christian Serratos looked like the actors enough that I recognised them without the voices. The vocal performances are fine though, even if there's not much in the way of emotion to display and the dialogue isn't up to much.
It's a solid little short story combining an initial genuine threat with the more psychological aspects of the ancient evil using it's powers on the survivors to try and get out.
A special forces team are tracking a hostage across the mountains of Afghanistan. They track and follow the terrorists into a cave system and, after discovering some skeletons, stripped of all flesh, discover that the dark holds a threat worse than any they were anticipating. But as they head deeper and deeper in, they discover an ancient horror, imprisoned, but yearning for freedom.
I often like the idea of the usage of Eldritch horror in media, more than I end up liking the execution, but this was, I thought, pretty well done. It's not extraordinary visually, but about par with higher end video game cut scenes - which makes sense if it was made in the unreal engine. The characters played by Joe Manganiello, Jai Courtney and Christian Serratos looked like the actors enough that I recognised them without the voices. The vocal performances are fine though, even if there's not much in the way of emotion to display and the dialogue isn't up to much.
It's a solid little short story combining an initial genuine threat with the more psychological aspects of the ancient evil using it's powers on the survivors to try and get out.