Andrew Undi Lee’s hour-long anthology series comprises five short and unsettling stories that explore different aspects of the immigration experience
Charles An as a ravenous goblin in Friend or Foe, an episode of Night Bloomers. The five-part horror anthology series from the Korean Australia diaspora is screening on SBS.Charles An as a ravenous goblin in Friend or Foe, an episode of Night Bloomers. The five-part horror anthology series from the Korean Australia diaspora is screening on SBS.nthology productions are by nature fickle beasts, requiring dramatic vignettes that are narratively separate but connected in tone or atmosphere.
All sorts of strange goings-on are scattered across its roughly one-hour cumulative runtime, from the appearance of a rotund blue-skinned goblin to rituals for the dead and various creepy apparitions. Between each segment there’s vision of a dancer in a traditional Korean hanbok, juxtaposed against a black background, performing “a cleansing dance to expel the evil in the world by untying the knots between the living and dead”.
But each vignette was over too quickly and left me wanting more. This speaks both to Lee’s impressive ability to quickly immerse viewers in interesting scenarios and also Night Bloomers’ incomplete feel.