Junji Ito makes some beautiful, beautiful pieces but his stories are so utterly nonsensical and cruel that its hard to have anything more than a momentary shiver. If manga aesthetics can get you to you,

I agree on The Beyond and the ability to fight back and defeat evil. That evil in that film is so overwhelming and inchoate that you cannot protect yourself from it let alone drive it back or defeat it

Exactly this, cheah. The novels of my beloved 60s and 70s horror paperback era are slim little 150-200 word things. You can sit down and complete one in an evening, or spread it out over a week of dips

As someone on the outside with no skin in the game other than a long, long forgotten wallet with a single coin mined in ye darkest of ages when you could do so with consumer hardware... Conceptually, I