i insist you stay a little longer
May. 4th, 2009 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intertribalI spent yesterday watching Rose Red, reading J-horror reviews on evildread.com (a cute little site), and researching Junji Ito, the guy behind Uzumaki and Tomie. I've always been intrigued by Uzumaki but not wholely impressed by Tomie - not that I've read either manga, but I've seen Tomie the movie and I found it rather ho-hum. Uzumaki, on the other hand, I would love to read, and Gyo looks even better.
Okay, I should restate that. Uzumaki looks disgusting and disturbing (people turning themselves into spirals by putting themselves in washing machines? dead bodies lodged on springs? - I still can't believe they made a movie out of this, but they did) and Gyo even more so (thank the good lord no one's made a movie out of this one). I've been able to gather that it's about a town that's invaded by an infection that produces a gas from necrotic tissue that powers machines, and basically the townspeople become zombie-corpses lodged on mechanical "legs". I don't really get it either, but the first thing that invades is this. And who could resist that?!
Probably a lot of people could resist that, come to think of it, but I guess I'm not one of them. I'm thinking about going down to Kinokuniya and buying myself a copy. I'll probably have to put it in the freezer a few times - I had a nasty childhood experience with a horror manga at a friend's house... to this day I can remember two of the stories contained therein (they weren't very original, but hey, I was ten at the time) - but I'm just so curious.
Clearly, I've been thinking a lot about horror lately.
Okay, I should restate that. Uzumaki looks disgusting and disturbing (people turning themselves into spirals by putting themselves in washing machines? dead bodies lodged on springs? - I still can't believe they made a movie out of this, but they did) and Gyo even more so (thank the good lord no one's made a movie out of this one). I've been able to gather that it's about a town that's invaded by an infection that produces a gas from necrotic tissue that powers machines, and basically the townspeople become zombie-corpses lodged on mechanical "legs". I don't really get it either, but the first thing that invades is this. And who could resist that?!
Probably a lot of people could resist that, come to think of it, but I guess I'm not one of them. I'm thinking about going down to Kinokuniya and buying myself a copy. I'll probably have to put it in the freezer a few times - I had a nasty childhood experience with a horror manga at a friend's house... to this day I can remember two of the stories contained therein (they weren't very original, but hey, I was ten at the time) - but I'm just so curious.
Clearly, I've been thinking a lot about horror lately.
