Installment #3, which a much bigger special effects budget and largely used well. Most notable for the inclusion of the bizarre “Parallel Monsters”, about a scientist who opens a doorway to a monstrous mirror dimension and agrees to swap places with his parallel self for 15 minutes, probably one of my favorite horror shorts that I’ve seen. I actually kind thought this one was consistent and slightly better than the other two, which of course means the critics all panned it hardest of the three. Not sure what’s wrong with people. I still wouldn’t go out of my way to see it, but would personally rewatch “Parallel Monsters” every now and again just because it’s so damn weird. It also marks the first-person-shooter style finally jumping the shark completely, as we see footage that could never be found (like a camera eaten by a monster showing the inside of the monster’s esophagus) or adds post-production (like freezeframes during otherwise-cool scenes attacking re-animated skeleton supposedly captured on GoPro video.) Like they forgot the whole thing “found footage” was even supposed to be.
