Junji ito spiral5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() I hadn’t heard much about it, other than vague murmurings that perhaps Junji Ito’s work was unfilmable. The few images that I’ve seen from the film suggested some faithfulness to the manga as well. It was released in 2000, right around the time that Ringu and The Grudge were redefining Japanese horror. That being said, I’ve always wanted to see Uzumaki, anyway. (To be clear, the Tomie series of films has been financially successful – I think there are something like 9 films in the series.) (The less said about the unsatisfying Gyo anime the better.) Ito himself has expressed a disappointment with the various films and shows made of his work, opining that perhaps there are some things that just cannot translate from one medium to another. The adaptations of Junji Ito’s work have, thus far, not been particularly successful as far as conveying that dichotomy of creeping unease and outright visceral horror. Or a man will be obsessed with spirals, filming snails for hours, and then he’s twisted into a tiny wooden tub, broken and disfigured. You’ll get small elements, like a girl’s hair slowly getting more curly, and then it will become a large, draining entity that kills people. ![]() It’s one of the most Lovecraftian things I’ve ever read, and I mean that in the best possible way.īecause it’s Junji Ito, the comic is a series of increasingly disturbing events and actions punctuated by the occasional horrific body horror. That sounds incredibly stupid, but it’s a disturbing and fantastic story about people dealing with an unknown and unknowable force that warps and destroys the lives of the main characters and everyone around them. Originally published in Big Comic Spirits in Japan during 1998 through 1999, it’s a story about a small city in Japan that is cursed by spirals. My absolute favorite of his longer works has always been Uzumaki, though. Most of his output has been shorter stories, but I’ve got a few of the big collections – Gyo of course, as well as Tomie, a series about an unkillable schoolgirl who engenders jealousy and rage in those around her (you can see my review of one of the many film adaptations of Tomie here). I stumbled across a copy of Gyo at my local comic shop in the early 2000’s and just happened to flip open to a page with a huge shark on mechanical legs attacking a couple in a house.Īnyway, I bought it and looked around for anything else I could find by the same artist. The mild-mannered master of horror manga has written and drawn some of my favorite graphic nightmares, series and stories that combine the unsettling with the over-the-top horrifying. ![]()
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