Main cast: Cherprang Areekul (Eye), Duangporn Sontikhan (Mom), and Praewa Suthamphong (Elle)
Director: Prueksa Amaruji

From what the marketing materials tell me, Terror Tuesday: Extreme is a horror anthology series based on stories shared to the Thai radio program of the same name (that’s Angkhan Khlumpong in Thai language).

Well, whoever shared the story of Our Little Sister must have been inspired by Richard Matheson because there are certainly shades of Bobby from Trilogy of Terror II.

Here, poor little Elle dies in a car accident at the opening of the episode. You see, the car she is in with her mom and her sister Eye somehow does a 180 flip and lands on its roof. Elle steps out right into the highway, and because in horror movies truck drivers just blast their horns instead of hitting the breaks, Elle is soon a bloody omelet on the road.

Cut to later, when Eye is all depressed and despondent while her mother is barely any better. Then, one day her mom commissions her medium to channel Elle’s soul into a doll, which of course has to be a creepy looking one. The medium states that there are a few rules that they have to follow at all times.

One, “feed” it every day by having it at the dining tables during family meals and offering it food and such, which of course it can’t eat because it’s a doll. Still, it’s the thought that counts.

Two, always put the doll back into its box before midnight. The medium emphasizes that this rule must never ever be broken. 

Three, don’t take the doll beyond an area in the house grounds delineated by a sacred red string set up by the medium. Doing so will break the spell binding Elle’s soul to the doll.

Mom is pleased, believing that Elle is with them again. Eye, however, knows better. Her suspicion heightens when the doll starts pulling off the predictable LOUD! JUMP! SCARES! all around her. That’s before Mom starts acting insane and even violent — corrupted by the doll perhaps?

Now, this episode is very predictable because it’s basically a collection of quintessential Asian horror tropes associated with creepy dolls, but the cast is actually pretty decent. The acting is just enough to deliver believable emotions without going over the top, and there is a blessed lack of high-pitched screaming one typically expects from such a show. 

It’s just that the episode is very predictable, right down to the ass pull twist for the sake of a twist — another played out and tired cliché as far as Asian horror is concerned.

Hence, this is an okay season-opener. It’s not the most memorable one, but it’s good enough to get me wanting to find out whether the rest of this season will get better.