Tomie: Photo takes the saying, “the camera never lies,” to a new level. Episode 9: Tomie: Photo Tomie.Ī high school photographer’s about to learn that her classmate, Tomie, is more than she seems. Where Four X Four Walls withholds the scares, The Sandman’s Lair pays in spades. In The Sandman’s Lair, a man is afraid to fall asleep and asks his friend to help keep him awake. Fortunately for our amusement, peculiar problems require peculiar solutions. Soichi’s hellbent on pranking his brother in some of the most peculiar ways in Four X Four Walls. Episode 4: Four X Four Walls / The Sandman’s Lair Soichi from Four X Four Walls. Mold is a slow burn that’s better upon a second watch, but Library Vision is too melodramatic.

The second story, Library Vision, chronicles the mental descent of a bibliophile’s psychosis after a few of his books go missing. Episode 6: Mold / Library Vision A still from Library Vision.Īn impossibly accelerated mold growth consumes a home in Mold, the first story of the episode. Although the episode isn’t irredeemable, the horror and comedy elements are bested elsewhere in the series.

Their latest ooky and kooky pursuit is conducting a seance in honor of their guest: a photographer interested in the supernatural. Here are each of the episodes ranked: Episode 1: The Strange Hikizuri Siblings The six Hikizuri siblings.Ī little more than strange, the Hikizuri siblings are like the Addams family of Ito’s world. The anthology series adapts twenty supernatural and cosmic horror manga from Junji Ito, a mangaka master of horror, into twelve anime episodes. Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre hit Netflix on January 19, 2023.

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