Watched all eight episodes of Thailand's School Tales: The Series. I have always admired Thai storytellers for their originality and their fertile imagination, and I continue to do so. 

This series is comprised of eight stories set in middle schools, the characters students, teachers, and staff members. The eight stories are: 

--"7AM ," in which classroom subjects mysteriously appear on a blackboard, and any student who comes without the corresponding textbook dies.

--"Vengeful Spell," in which a senior student casts curses on her classmates and places it in a box of curses for other students to find.

--"Beautiful," about a beauty potion available online, with a grisly term of agreement for its users. This seems to be a spinoff and an interpolation of a similar story from an earlier Thai horror anthology.

--"The Book of Corpses," about a student who committed suicide after recording her suffering in a journal--to me the worst episode because of many non-sequiturs, among them the unlikely location of a rest room directly above a library circulation desk, a rest room door that locks from the outside rather than from the inside, a student being trapped for three months inside a rest room that has windows with glass jalousies that can either be smashed or taken down, and a highly unlikely bullying situation.

--"Headless Teacher," a horror comedy about two boys who play detective when their ogress teacher is murdered and beheaded.

--"Lunch," about a boy who plays self-righteous vlogger to expose the soup ingredients used by a cafeteria cook. This episode is the best of the lot. Watching it, one cannot predict exactly how it will end. On top of everything, the actor who plays the protagonist, Kong--Tonhon Tantivejakul--does his acting homework, internalizes his character successfully, and delivers the most truthful and the most sensitive performance of all. Here is one Thai actor to watch out for.

--"Curse," about a bullied student who encounters a ghost nurse in an abandoned infirmary and wishes his tormentors dead.

--"A Walk in School," about two boys who roam their school at night with a video camera to debunk all the ghost stories they ever heard of.

There is, however, too much bullying in this series, as though there are no other interesting ways to generate conflict in the stories. It also retains a lot of 20th-century horror movie conventions such as excessive screaming, exploring in the dark, and running away from ghosts who always manage to catch up.

It is unfortunate, indeed, that many adolescent issues in movies are ultimately boring, and I am afraid that they will remain so for the next 50 years.