Look, I’m as tolerant of weirdness in my movies as the next guy.  I can watch Nick Nolte without throwing up OR screaming.  But man…when I watched Ghost Stories Volume 3 from the good folks at the former ADV (there’s only two volumes left–we’ll hit them next week after the big Friday premier of Whatever Shows Up In My Area This Week), my every weird vibe started pinging like a steel drum at a shotgun convention.

Anyway, we’re still in with our crew, Satsuke’s actually a bigger bitch than ever, Keiichirou is actually less coherent, Momoko now comes with Vaguely Creepy Past involving drugs and freaky sex, Hajime’s still sort-of hitting on Satsuke and Leo, thankfully, is still Leo.

And the ghosts are actually pulling our kids into the spirit world.

There’s a whole lot of contact with the spirit world here, plus one whole episode is devoted to hearing how Satsuke and Keiichirou’s MOM DIED.  Seriously, I don’t want to hear about how the two year old Keiichirou went to get apple juice from a vending machine and got back JUST IN TIME to hear his mom die.  I mean, the hell?  What do we do for an encore, skin a puppy and roll it in salt while he watches?  There are just some things you don’t do!

But just when I think it can’t get more horrible, they go and break the tension as only Ghost Stories can…by giving Satsuke and Keiichirou’s dad a shot with two nurses.  Rock.

Yes, I KNOW his wife was on her deathbed at the time.  So it’s heavily conflicted rock, but still.  Rock.