With all the weak paranormal horror recently in film with more

>>18769650
Feel like Junji Ito strikes the perfect balance between cosmic horrors and damaged people

>>18769665
How is that a balance? What's the difference between cosmic horror & damaged people. Synonym existence.

>>18769665
But the damaged people aren't always just that. With a lot of big name horror (at least in western media), it focuses totally on the psyche of the damaged. Junji's casts are normally driven by some indescribable supernatural force. Everything from Glyceride to his opus Uzumaki, there's something there behind it all. A threat that is literally incomprehensible is more scary than something you can explain. "Oh, he's got X disorder, so that's why he does this." does not equate to unfathomable horrors.

>>18769650
Maybe Ben Wheatley?

>>18769681
yeah, but those are also metaphors for damaged people, which makes it beautiful. It heightens the reality by turning to the supernatural, and suggests the answer is somewhere between the two, in a way that the "he's got X disorder" kind of works can't

all of junji ito's longer graphic novels have already been made into films.

dont watch any of them though they all suck really hardcore. like they suck SUPER BAD. kinda ruined the stories for me. such a shame.

Man, do NOT start reading that book at midnight. I got to the part with the dad and the circular bath and now that image haunts me.