Episode 10: Unendurable Labyrinth / The Bully The Bully has some of the scariest visuals in the series. This story is too short, which doesn’t do the extremely interesting plot justice. A strange beast washes up on a beach in The Thing That Drifted Ashore. The best part of this story is, by far, the bloody climax. Episode 8: Layers of Fear / The Thing That Drifted Ashore The Thing That Drifted Ashore.Īn archaeologist discovers a strange tomb of many layers and unleashes a curse in Layers of Fear. Immediately, her final form in the short story Mansion comes to mind. The succubus’s resume boasts several other more frightening forms and fusions. Of the many stories Ito’s written about Tomie, this isn’t among the most intriguing. 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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