9/18/2023 0 Comments Spiral 1998![]() And these spirals are artistically powerful, beautiful, horrifying. ![]() It reminds me of how the threatening bird population seems to grow in Hitchcock's The Birds. Some theories are hinted at: The sort of aesthetic need to see patterns? Or is that OCD? Collective madness centered in a single coastal Japanese town? This pattern is everywhere, though at first you just see it through the eyes of one man, then others see it, and then everyone sees it, and we see it! AUGH!!! Help!! They. No real reason why that we can say for sure. Uzumaki, or spirals, seem to take over a town. It proceeds less from plot than from images of spirals, of the vortex, proliferating with a growing intensity. and gory, at times, creepy, nightmare-inducing (maybe). I like some of Joe Hill's work such as Locke and Key, and that works to unsettle me, but this is different, atmospheric, black and white. Since Tomie, many of his works have been adapted for TV and the cinema.Ĭan a comic-a horror manga, in this case-creep you out or even scare you? You know movies can do it, such as Psycho or Halloween. In 1998, during the horror boom that followed the success of Ringu, Tomie was adapted into a movie. Eventually, unable to cope with her coy flirtation and their desire to possess Tomie completely, they are inevitably compelled to kill her - only to discover that, regardless of the method they chose to dispose of her body, her body will always regenerate. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen.īefore Uzumaki, Ito was best known for Tomie, a comic series about a beautiful, teasing and eternally youthful high school girl who inspires her stricken admirers to murder each other in fits of jealous rage. ![]() His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. ![]() The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. ![]() Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby - even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga. Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. ![]()
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