How Media Scares Us: The Work of Junji Ito

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[@helena_8478]

Normal horror fans: scared of: ghosts, monsters, vampires.. Junji Ito fans: scared of : spirals, balloons, Grease

[@willyeeton4390]

I'm pretty uneasy with mountains now. Those fucken holes man.

[@ogithesergal4182]

And apparently, apologies.

[@angrykobold5970]

I'm scared of fish now

[@cxlv1n]

Chairs.

[@kiwoxgen9929]

@Daruxma 4hi parasyte is not junji ito's work

[@annaisabanana6848]

not jumpscaring me was scarier than jumpscaring me

[@USER11493]

Anticipation is scary, man.

[@death_XP]

even after the black screen, I was still waiting for something, and it scares me

[@javihernandez8267]

I just covered my ears in panic and faced away

[@cappa_likes_flowers]

Made me realize how dark my room was 😖

[@mochiattoart514]

I know. Just jumpscare me, dude.

[@fleromor]

Favorite thing about Ito is that he creates some of the greatest horror manga in existence but when he's interviewed he's just Some Guy™ that loves his cats

[@calowenby1654]

I think the people who create the weirdest art are often pretty regular people. For instance, from what I've seen of his interviews John Waters seems like a fun and affable guy.

[@colette782]

@@calowenby1654 i think it's more of this idea that they're really comfortable with themselves and the deepest parts of their psyches. theyre in touch with their subconscious and took the time to explore their shadows and bring them to light.

[@JBJMMA]

@@calowenby1654 same with fujimoto tatsuki

[@lanny007]

@@JBJMMA nah hes as fucked up as his manga lmao

[@JBJMMA]

@@lanny007 a masochist

[@prismafay702]

Spirited Away freaked me out when her parents became pigs in the very beginning of the film. Something of it was very disturbing and grotesque as they slammed down food. No face as well had a very unsettling presence whether it be a neutral being or not. Another film that did this was The Last Unicorn. Although it's a sad story, there are plenty of horror aspects that stay in your brain whether you're a child or adult. Strange disfigured faces and disgruntled voices and bizarre creatures really feed that emotion of fear and stress.

[@dorkslayer9495]

same... made me quit watching the movie in disney channel as a kid

[@mar35962]

nah fr SPIRITED away that moment kinda hit me in as in like a trauma of absent parenting like the ones who were supposed to care your needs and protect you doesn't

[@AnonymousDumboOctopus]

Yea the pig scene was horrifying to me as a child.

[@megumegi]

Yes! When in spirited away her parents turned into pigs and shes just alone in that world, i felt a sense of dread, of being alone. Like that fear when you were young and you are with your parents in the mall and you are scared of being left by them

[@wateryosman1728]

OMG LITERALLY!! The Last Unicorn was so unsettling when I watched it as a little child, like it was a good movie, and a sad one but god DAMN was it scary

[@timkunken4253]

“Jump scares are the equivalent to a comedian tickling you to make you laugh” -some tweet I read

[@TheGoukaruma]

It's more like a sucker punch compaired to real martial arts. It's maybe effective but doesn't take much skill and doesn't work when you expect it.

[@UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal]

Holy shit thats such an accurate comparison

[@ripghotihook]

Jump scares can be done well, but relying on them is moronic.

[@lilyp396]

LivingOnLifeDyingfromLife187 What a boomer

[@lilyp396]

LivingOnLifeDyingfromLife187 Kk but what if I wasn’t making a joke? You legit sound like ur fuckin 58 or something

[@nnndogs]

i appreciated you not jumpscaring me.

[@extragroovy735]

The anticipation was worse though

[@mateal_2769]

Half of your likes is because of your profil picture

[@Dannohasho]

@@mateal_2769 Jealous much?

[@mateal_2769]

Nope it's just hilarious

[@Dannohasho]

@@mateal_2769 Fair enough

[@brookeb4563]

Slug girl is the Junji Ito story that made me feel most uncomfortable, mostly due to personal phobias. It was like he knew exactly what would make me personally feel uneasy and amped it up to 10

[@KittyTrackz]

after reading it, if i stick out my tounge far enough, i get nauseous. i read it like a month ago.

[@user-nb5jo2xi1g]

My mouth feels uncomfy whenever I get reminded of the "Slug Girl" I feel compelled to drink water and take a shower

[@mihaleben6051]

@@user-nb5jo2xi1g what? I wouldnt wanna Theres slug in the water. No cat tho.

[@ashleyshanks6821]

He has a special preoccupation with slugs, snails, and worms. Flatworms feature prominently in Tomie. Uzumaki has a thing with snails. Some horror writers do spiders, Junji does slugs and worms.

[@LL-tr5et]

​@@ashleyshanks6821love him for that. my arachnophobia physically can't handle spider stuff (not in a horror way. in a "if i look at a spider too long i want to scratch my skin off" way) so ito's work is somewhat of a relief

[@fulviopontarollo2952]

Also in Junji Ito’s works there is a fair share of characters that _know_ what they are doing / the situation they’re putting themselves in will turn into death or worse, and they are scared as hell by it, but also still feel compelled to go on and fall into the corruption and horror The same way we as the readers know that very likely by the end of the story we’ll get scared / unsettled as hell, sometimes for quite some time after finishing reading, but we still feel compelled to turn those damn pages until the end

[@promienodrzutowysamuel790]

I feel like you are specifically referring to The Enigma of Amigara fault

[@noel2641]

@@promienodrzutowysamuel790 well that, uzamaki, tomi? I think. But the one with the girl that every guy simps for, and more. Most of the characters in his writing tends to be aware of the dangers, but fall into it, due to desiring something, often something not large, but minor or by needing something to survive. The majority of them tend to feel really human due to it. Wait a

[@lillyw2695]

like in fashion model when the guy is like "horrifying woman whose face has terrorized me for months? yeah i should definitely go into the woods with her that'll definitely turn out well"

[@Mawuli12345]

​@@noel2641 nah

[@1WEareBUFO1]

The little Boys in the lighthouse in Uzumaki. For example.

[@charlottehankins9563]

Jump scares aren’t horror, they’re simply streams of adrenaline. That’s it.

[@HadesWTF]

Jump scares aren't scares. They're a momentary startle.

[@aquafreshfan3022]

“A man could jump out in front of me and mug me, but that’s not horror. That’s just living in the U.K” ~ Pyrocynical

[@Polomanart]

@@aquafreshfan3022 😂

[@NeODeLeuX]

Horror vs Terror. Horror is the reaction to the jumpscare, the jolt of adrenaline and fear you get from it while Terror is what Silent hill builds upon, your expectations of what's to come and the feeling of everlasting uneasiness every time you open a door or enter a new place.

[@MrMarinus18]

So what you are saying is that they are more a tool for action than for horror.

[@domothemonster1309]

Lets be honest, Courage the Cowardly Dog did a great job at scaring us .

[@thatguy-qb6up]

Bruh I legit could not watch that as a child.

[@tinakupa5167]

Duuuude to this day I'm still traumatized, they only aired that ish at night.

[@thegirlwholovedhercrushbac9278]

I’m still can’t watch the mummy episode

[@asheru9254]

@@thegirlwholovedhercrushbac9278Naah that weird barber and the cat were scarier than Ramses slabs🤣

[@madisunie]

Terrifying but lovely

[@minchic894]

I love how waiting for the Fake jumpscare scared me more than a Real one. Emotions are always stronger that reactions

[@live_possesion_5195]

I found Uzumaki years ago, and I thought it was enthralling. The disgusting wrongness of it all drew me in. The disgust I felt when seeing the mother's stomach about to burst with children fed on blood. It was exquisite.

[@amazing7235]

Ugh don't remind me, I just finished reading it

[@niyaodom1944]

That was…a sentence that I simultaneously wish I never read and also fills me with the worst morbid curiosity-

[@_fedmar_]

What was exquisiste? The story, the children, or the blood? Guess we'll never know.

[@bolson42]

That one felt the worst for me. I don’t think it was all that well written but it was so incredibly fucked up compared to everything else.

[@ashleyshanks6821]

THESE MUSHROOMS ARE DELICIOUS.

[@Tamaki742]

Funfact about Danny's actor, for years he never knew that he was in a horror movie until he actually watched The Shining himself. Kubrick didn't want him to get traumatized as a kid so he hid anything that might hint that it's a horror set to the guy. Once he accidentally got into the set where Jack Nicholson is holding the axe, and Nicholson immediately danced so the kid wouldn't ask questions.

[@scarletshadow4350]

Tamaki742 omg REALLY! Poor thing! That's honestly kind of funny!

[@chrisossu2070]

Considering how much of a prick Kubrick was to the rest of the cast, that's honestly kind of heartwarming that he'd be that considerate towards Danny's actor.

[@ujjwalmishra8962]

huh what a nice guy

[@RazorRyan100]

Ok then why was he being a prick kamalindsey?

[@RazorRyan100]

He probably didnt understand what he was saying or what he was pretending to be. Besides there are plenty of lies they could come up with for that.

[@PaytonSwan]

"I kid you not, he turns himself into a spiral. Scariest shit I've ever seen."

[@ej-jz5rc]

spiral rick

[@MotobugGaming]

Teehee

[@ej-jz5rc]

@@MotobugGaming oh shit

[@emiliianoportillo1311]

"I TURNED MY SELF INTO AN ELDRITCH SPIRAL MORRRTTTY!!!"

[@pundertalefan4391]

Is that quote from something?

[@kainenfecteau9001]

Another media that (understandably) gets often overlooked when discussing horror is music. People have this idea that music has to be pleasant, so horror is automatically swept under the rug because unsettling is seen as opposite to pleasant. One of my favourite albums is Mutant by Arca, and the best description of it that I’ve heard is that it’s like an exorcism. I do enjoy listening to it a lot, and I think it’s one of the few albums I know of that I think could fit under the horror category, if such a genre were to exist.

[@Kikuomiku7]

Kikuo is a very good horror music artist, as a good starter horror song by him would be cotton candy I think

[@rhettgiepert4022]

like LORN

[@squelar844]

Anyone who's curious if music could be scary or not, go listen to Frankie Teardrop by Suicide. (I have more examples but this is just.., just listen to it)

[@thatbitchnoemie]

​@@squelar844 Try the album "Transformalin" by Diagnose Lebensgefahr

[@sandyman3070]

Exactly! The album Psychosadistic Design by Vulvodynia is absolutely disgusting. It’s death metal, which even though I enjoy the genre, is undoubtedly harsh on the ears. But where the album really gets gross is the lyrics. Every song describes, in great detail, horrible crimes against humanity, and it’s genuinely hard to read through them without getting nauseous. I mean fuck, just look at the titles. “Forced Fecal Ingestion”, “Castration Multilation” Is it enjoyable? No. Because it’s not meant to be. And it’s pretty fuckin cool that they did that.

[@PaulFJarnes]

Analog Horror like the Mandela Catalog, the backroom and even stuff like the trollge incidents demonstrates how the internet as a media can be used as a unique vehicle for horror

[@te-ter]

Horror is what cripples your mind, not your stomach.

[@cupoframen928]

The stomach cripples your body ;)

[@subscribetopizzatheonlyrea7322]

It cripples both

[@timesweeper9778]

That's terror

[@distantsea]

@@timesweeper9778 stephen king fan?

[@timesweeper9778]

@@distantsea A bit. Not much though.

[@ErraticPillow]

i admire your sincerity of totally not putting a actual jump-scare in there, anyone else would have.

[@romulusnuma116]

Actually I've seem more people do what he did then people who do put jump scares when they talk about them but I appreciate it I don't deal well with horror

[@kneza96BG]

yms wouldn't xD

[@ononon2earth]

Erraticpillow LOL your thumbnail makes it look like you're especially thankful he didn't! XD

[@drakeford3238]

I literally said "Come on wolf, get on with it" right before he said he wasn't going to do one. I could not stop laughing.

[@RidKain]

I was expecting one at the end of the video.

[@lol-wn4bd]

junji's work is prime example of 'never let them know your next move'

[@zoobatzjr371]

The entirety of Junji Ito's Cat Diary is him basically confronting his fear of cats because his wife wanted some. It's one of the funniest and most wholesome things I've ever read but he makes sure you understand why he's scared of them. Definitely worth a read.

[@dontsubfortheloveofgod]

Remember the time that Ito made a slice-of-life of him and his wife trying to impress their cats, but refused to change his vertigo-inducing bodyhorror art style?

[@alyssahopson5926]

oh my god what?

[@beatrizlopezsales6867]

@@alyssahopson5926 Junji Ito's Cat Diary, search it, it's hilarious, the "cat with a face" panels are from that.

[@noname-kx4cu]

Well apparently, he actually wanted to draw cute things but he apparently couldn't figure out how to do that so leaned into the creepy style. He's actually a really wholesome person which is kind of surprising.

[@simi5558]

@@noname-kx4cu art usaly shows the opposite side of someone persona ex miyazaki

[@katendress6142]

@@noname-kx4cu A lot of horror people are really nice. Maybe because they can get rid of their inner darkness in their fiction?

[@word2believe]

I think the show "courage the cowardly dog" did the best horror animation in any cartoon ive seen, even today I think its creepy.

[@LaLabutterfly]

Bluer Sora Right!!! I always thought so as well. There was a particular eerie-ness. I think the thin line between normalcy and fright is quite good which makes for a good horror movie/show. A good horror movie for me is when it's so subtle that it'll seep through the cracks of the conscious mind and unravel your deepest fears subconsciously.

[@nihal2055]

yup couldn't agree more

[@Minahme-ob4kj]

Bluer Sora For me it's gotta be Coraline and Courage the cowardly dog as my number one picks for the scariest animations.

[@SangonomiyaCockMe]

"you're not perfect"

[@markwickham7338]

The forced proportions and perspectives always made me uncomfortable

[@VexCasper]

Ito's work feels almost like the flip side of Hayao Miyazaki's creations: where Miyazaki embraces the mundane and infuses it with whimsy, Ito inverts it into twisted distortions of possibility. Both examine the cracks of our reality and explore them as a vehicle to carry their respective themes, but where Miyazaki sees fantastical beauty in the unknown, Ito treats us to the underbelly of uncertainty. There's something so surreal that permeates Japanese horror, where its subjects are presented as something that simply *is*, but is not explicable; where victims aren't punished so much as they become unfortunate, silent casualties to entropic forces. Ito's contributions showcase why J-Horror, at its finest, is so uniquely existentially threatening.

[@pundertalefan4391]

I want to see a hybrid.

[@strawberrytiramisu]

Higurashi When They Cry is a really good anime. It has scenes where you just know somethings not right with the characters. They’ll go from talking to staring at eachother as the camera angle flips back and forth from their faces. No sounds but birds chirping or crickets singing can be heard. Then they go back to normal. Those scenes are just bone chilling to me.

[@aiolichan]

yes i was just about to comment this!! definitely recommend when they cry

[@ashleyshanks6821]

That anime is a prime example of when something looks really dumb (sorry, I am not a fan of the art style at all) but the story is so. Freaking. Addictive.

[@yourgaythoughts1949]

A thing that terrifies me about Junji Itos work is that the horrific events always happen to innocent people without explanation

[@lilscenechick1995]

That's true I have yet to read one of his works where the character is experiencing things due to consequences of their own actions (like in modern horror films). It just...happens.

[@CuteLittleLily]

The spring guy. He got kinda bullied right? Dunno kinda forgot

[@elsangdorj1406]

Not really innocent people . Some deserved it lul

[@gypsyfreak7934]

kek lul well all part in part of life I think the manga is trying to tell us that there is no innocent people just people

[@elsangdorj1406]

@@gypsyfreak7934 based

[@existentialcrisis8321]

I see horror as an organic thing, kinda like comedy in a weird way. It's not something you can force, it's something that should come naturally and evolve naturally.

[@supereyepatchwolf3007]

Thats a really good way of putting it, fair play dood

[@joee7809]

Existential Crisis like a good fart if you have to force it it's sh*t

[@existentialcrisis8321]

Joee Exactly. If you force a fart to be more then it is, it could end up a disappointment.

[@probablyapossum]

your name in combination with your icon and what you're saying is amazing

[@queersaint]

I think good comedy works exactly like good horror - it's a subversion of what we are expecting. It's just, instead of a funny joke, it's something terrifying.

[@juggypockets]

an animator who has a cute style but also manages to creep me out when intended is cuptoast. her style is cute, bubbly, and simple yet “cat on mars”, “amnesia was her name”, “two times”, and others i cannot remember have made my skin crawl. for some her art style might take away any scariness are for others they might think that there’s nothing scary at all. but the idea of being the last living person because you were in space when the earth blew up and slowly running out of food and your will to survive, is quite terrifying.

[@Beano5]

Are you talking about cuptoast?

[@itzthirteen]

@@Beano5 yes they are talking about cup also why did u reply this comment is 4 months ago

[@Beano5]

@@itzthirteen idk lmao

[@impockets]

another artist with a normally cute/upbeat style who is surprisingly good at horror is shen(bike cuck guy lol). he makes pretty good horror illustrations for scary story comics every halloween

[@xxangelthebearxx]

ooo i love cuptoast

[@music_YT2023]

Puella Magi Madoka Magica was pretty horrifying; it was the first time I had seen the magic girl genre portrayed as psychological horror. The anime remake of the manga really captured that spirit, too.

[@zylieacaria4601]

bro, the series was such a slowburn. I was 13 watching it, and got bored so skipped it to the end.. I'll never forget what that last ep showed me n made me feel ever...

[@colleen5100]

This omg I was thinking of that as I was scrolling through..I love psychological horror animes and also love magical girl animes and that put together. Legitimately one of my favs

[@amyvasquez4268]

Madoka is probably one of my favorite animes. Man, its themes of hope and despair are soooo amazingly well done.

[@elmonko5068]

I guess the story of Uzumaki spiralled out of control

[@rainbow-lm9uq]

l e a v e

[@bradley8614]

That was pretty funny

[@techyn8502]

OMG that was so fuNny haha lol *puts gun to head*

[@KK-jt8fd]

b u d m t s s s s s.

[@slowspectre9612]

Davog Devenney u r my new best friend omfg

[@shi1883]

"I'm not going to, but i could have." [H UMONGOUS EXHALE OF RELIEF, FAITH IN HUMANITY RESTORE D]

[@galacticat7144]

Tbh I expected it even after he said that, but it still wouldn’t have been a good jumpscare for reasons explained in here so it makes perfect sense why he didn’t do it

[@MsAnimefan95]

@@galacticat7144 It did a pretty good job of building the tension.

[@charlottecoville3147]

I was flippin waiting for it to punch my computer

[@caprisun21]

came directly to the comments after he said that, thinking he was still gonna do it 😂

[@anachronism5271]

CONSIDER: a truck went by and beeped effectively jump scaring me.

[@just_a_bi_nerd]

Another horror series I find that works with these more abstract concepts is The Magnus Archives, it's a podcast with 200 episodes and it slowly transforms from unsettling one off stories to full lovecraftian horror, it's wonderful.

[@unstablelmao]

ive loved junji ito for YEARS and it makes me so happy someone else if finally appreciating his work as much as i do :D

[@SamuraiMujuru]

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown"

[@prestonnoneya3767]

Yotunfrau, a lotta people who were cool authors, scientists, and nice people in the past were mega racists, doesn’t discredit what they did!

[@2HandHangerDunksOnly]

racism isn't real, just like Hewlett Packard's "shorts"

[@rebelton3421]

It can also relate to the fear of death which goverment or whoever benefits from us uses it.

[@ashertheprophet9601]

Amen brother

[@qusigh]

And that's y I don't want to see a joker origin movie

[@chuuchuu1503]

i guess things really... _spiralled_ out of control with uzumaki

[@megumiseyelashes6706]

I wanna hate this but I can't

[@wunderwaffeyt4077]

Ha.....ha....haha

[@400cabal]

I stepped on a snail the other day and it haunts me

[@asei231]

Idk why but after reading a different comment the inside of my ear hurts.. I'm terrified.

[@pink.lemonade7715]

Badum tsss

[@IdkANickname]

Junji ito’s work has never scared me but is has disgusted me in a way I’ve never felt before (And I don’t say that lightly). The imagery he creates causes a pure emotional response which is amazing

[@Glitch-Gremlin]

Honestly jump scares are so hated, because they're increadibly easy to pull off...and INCREDIBLY EFFECTIVE. most people hate it when the "easy road" is taken, but jump scares work on a primal level due to ambush predators working that way. We fear it because its built into us to fear it. Just like the unknown.

[@willardh.yeahright8801]

Perfect Blue was one of the scariest things I have ever seen. It was confusing and had no jumpscares.

[@proweeb4141]

Satoshi Kon is a great director who puts his works creep factor to the max

[@kyliesmith521]

I’m still thinking about it months later. Just the pure unease in certain scenes is stuck in my brain

[@momoz1]

the movie makes you SO uneasy

[@alpaca9994]

When he said he doesn't think perfect blue was friteninng I completely disagre as it may not have the creepy visuals it's the realism and the fact that this could happen to anyone type that makes it fritening

[@chilbongers]

will watch.

[@alatreon7451]

This is why the SCP foundation is so good at being scary when it wants to be.

[@sonamnechen8733]

I agree

[@kieranmcginley1262]

Saw this as the first comment, the comment algorithm has chose you. I expect this to blow up

[@user-yc3tf4wz2x]

I also agree Edit: but it depends

[@cuze.e]

I disagree

[@techmasterkat9048]

The one about a watchtower with hundreds of levels above it creeps me out hard.

[@ashleyshanks6821]

One thing I find striking about Junji Ito's work is that in many stories, the bizarre and horrifying often happens on a large scale. Most horror plays on the fear of being alone. In works like Uzumaki, you could be with your family, your boyfriend, your classmates, or your whole town, and it wouldn't make a difference at all. Suddenly people you've known your whole life could be infected by the horrifying thing and they're no longer safe. I also love how everyone who retains their sanity adjusts to and deals with the bizarre. The difference between build up, suspense, dread, atmosphere, etc, and momentary thrills is why I skew towards supernatural horror in movies over slasher flicks. Although I have seen quite a few supernatural horrors that try to be scary by borrowing from slasher flicks. I think we all know ghosts aren't scary because they might kill us. In most cases they can't even touch us.

[@bamb1n013]

The fact that you incorporated Silent Hill OST , is an instantaneous subscribe. Also , because I appreciate how smoothly put together your content is :)

[@rabbit-exe3606]

the main thing about Ito's work that always disturbed me was how he warps people - their bodies, their minds, their sense of self - into these horrible infested things. and worse, the affliction causing this is often contagious, or otherwise inescapable. there's nothing you can do to prevent yourself from being twisted and warped by a spiral, it'll just start happening to you and you can't stop it. loss of bodily autonomy or form is one of the scariest things I've found in his art

[@siiri2802]

you worded it so good! you can run away from monsters but not yourself

[@pokaay3163]

Yeah, I think that's another big part of why his stories are so effective- it's just plot that unravels itself as you're reading and as you can't understand it, you also can't escape it. Even if you were to enter each story with the mindset that you know the gist of what's gonna happen (freaky images, bad endings), that's about the only thing he lets you predict. With the rest you are subject to inevitably grow attached to certain characters simply because you follow their adventure or they stick out with some sort of sympathy or relatability, and then you watch as their world is twisted, and maybe even them, too. Even if they come out "alright" in the end, the story will always find a way to leave their situation off on an unnerving note, like things will never be the same again. coupled with his mastery of art and how he can convey feelings not only through narrative themes but by the stroke of his pen alone, it's a great pairing with amazing potential (that he has shown) for a genre like horror.

[@alisonsandoval860]

That's called body horror

[@xlintx]

When the screen went black I thought there was gonna be a jump scare I was wrong but I saw my face so does it count?

[@dilucmain9130]

honestly same

[@screwnicorn4731]

Yes because you are scary ugly

[@karenannadonnelly]

Lol same

[@invader_whoa3919]

I’m the 666th like 😏

[@pixelmei7767]

Mood

[@fluffcake]

Junji Ito's whole collection of manga is way better than most modern horror movies today

[@ranchsoda7759]

I keep rewatching this over and over again as a lover of horror art, junji ito, and a horror artist myself the points made in this video are spot on and i will always remember them

[@blakethegreat3093]

What made me feel weird or scared as a kid is when the parents in Spirited Away turn into pigs and when Neo in the matrix got the big thing implanted in his belly button.

[@jf2801]

You mean Neo?

[@blakethegreat3093]

J F yeah shit

[@TheRaymanFan]

yeah it was the bit where neo's mouth closed up that freaked me out so much as a kid

[@whiitekloak1038]

Yeah spirited away

[@edenm.1114]

I REALLLY didn’t want my parents turning into pigs, so the thought of that fucked me up too lol

[@dusanlekic3505]

"There's nothing frightening about a spiral" -Me being anxious everytime when I see a spiral after reading Uzumaki

[@ilhamimran1213]

Dusan Lekic i felt this

[@ll7273]

there's a snail in your ear. :v

[@proweeb4141]

The last page legit made me question everything I just read, I was starting to drawn into the spiral. I was so drawn to his skill to turn this simple concept of a spiral and turn it into a terrifying thing, over and over again

[@dusanlekic3505]

@@proweeb4141 Yeah, that's what one of the greatest horror story telling manga artist does to you

[@VampDollV]

lmfaooo i thought i was the only one

[@jubjub4119]

You know a video analysis of something is good when they don’t even bring up the thing they’re analyzing until half way through the video

[@kazutoralovebot]

i have an entire junji ito collection, because his art is so mesmerizing. i love it sm.

[@bflopez06]

Because I read Junji Ito's novels I can never look at windows, ceilings, floors, containers and much more the same way again.

[@jayjo8607]

@Hecantonchire s I have developed phobia for dreams, long dreams to me more accurate

[@sara.s.7032]

I can't look at birds the same...

[@Averagebhaiyaar234]

@@jayjo8607 WHERE IS MAMI

[@jdprettynails]

There's a famous sculpture of a wall with a person-shaped hole in it and I remember seeing a picture of it posted and all the Junji Ito fans were in the comments freaking out and ever since then I've been curious to read his stuff. But I'm also not a fan of horror, I just can't handle feeling frightened very well. Which is super frustrating because I feel like I'm missing out on some really interesting stories.

[@JadeAnnabelArt]

@@jdprettynails If it helps, I'm also scared of horrors. But I started to slowly introduce myself with 'easier' horrors, and watching 'how to survive' or 'how it was made'. Dissecting the horror (Like in this video, where we learn it's the fear of the unknown/uncanny valley) helps logic out the fear, I suppose. For example, I was scared of Saw, I was worried I'd be kidnapped for something stupid and die. But watching how the traps were made really helped me create a barrier between fiction and reality that helped me consume horror more easily.

[@salsabilak3520]

4:30 when the screen is faded to black I immediately put my phone far from my face lol

[@naji_moarmy6808]

ME TOO LOL

[@nerdhouse1368]

Same

[@AbThere]

Dude I was so waiting for something

[@libraeevee9467]

I put it on mute and prepared to look away

[@matthewkim812]

i saw my reflection and through my phone out he window

[@_minty_fresh_]

I've found this weird phenomenon where despite the fact I'm a massive scaredy cat who hates feeling scared, I'm way better at handling phycological horror then other people my age. I think it's because I've gotten used to making things less spooky in my head, it's like my ape brain has built a thick skin towards it.

[@bagrbagros4964]

I discovered Junji Ito last summer and ive read his short horror stiories and enjoyed it very much, then I bought his Spirals and from that book he has been my favirute author of manga

[@ashii4248]

Psychological horror has this long lasting fear effect that stays with you even after seeing it. Jump scares are made for just that one moment.

[@dogdog7883]

Thats why i prefer jumpscares 😭

[@samuelmarkby2441]

I’ve actually met someone who has a fear of certain geometric shapes and pattern, spirals being on of them. It’s amazing what he can find a spiral in. Simple pictures or paintings that look to have no spirals at basic glance, he will find one. It’s unnerving when you start to think how these little things are everywhere without notice.

[@jonahj9519]

Did you recommend Uzumaki to him?

[@fiveotree_]

Jonah J Calm down, Satan.

[@tahataimur1859]

nah it isn't unnerving at all. Why tf would it be? I understand it might be for this particular person but normal ppl? hell no.

[@edgarroberts8740]

Yeah, it is weird how specific fears can be. I once saw a reddit post where someone said a music video gave them serious feelings of dread because it had this little mini-video in one corner, the size of its frames changing in a loop quickly, so that it was sort of pulsating. (FYI, the video is Streaky, by Death Grips.)

[@_gremlinboy]

Since spirals are so recurring in nature it makes a lot of sense to develop a fear of them, and for that reason it's worse because we do see and create them constantly

[@justanotherupscaspirant8837]

You know an artist is god-tier when just watching a KZbin video about someone else explaining his work was enough to make me feel this undercurrent of dread throughout. Honestly, even if you had shown a jumpscare at the start, the 2nd half of the video is still about 10x more terrifying. Hats off to Junji Ito and to you for introducing me to this body of work. Excuse me while I dive into the world of horror manga

[@00Meowmeow]

Ghost hunt was a paranormal ghost hunting anime that is fantastic. It plays on that silly real life ghost hunting trope but takes it to a fictional world where you can really immerse yourself in the lore of the universe which is closely relatd to our own. It played really well with the creepiness

[@victhyosis]

One thing that made me unsettled while reading a few of Junji Ito's work is that sometimes only one character(and you!) finds the events happening to be weird, while the others accept it as normal. The world has gone insane but that character is still normal. And you feel cornered along with them.

[@Outlawsrevenge1020]

Yes, exactly! Underrated comment!

[@creativename8275]

Yes, I felt that it was so weird in Uzumaki how the protagonist girl seemed so nonchalant about it all. Only her boyfriend seems to be taking things seriously, and ~he's~ the one who comes off as unhinged at times

[@victoriaaz6014]

@@creativename8275 sadly he never left the city, lol

[@nicoco678]

@@victoriaaz6014 THAT'S what made him extremely likable tho imo. He obviously desperately wanted to leave but stayed to help out his girlfriend, completely selfless.

[@lottefrp3683]

Nicely expressed point. Similar to being in a dream and waking up to realise maybe that wasn't so natural. Neil Gaiman has a similar method, American Gods uses it a lot.

[@Alex._-._..-.-_.._]

Two videos and I'm already convinced he would make the most intense English teacher ever

[@Sillymodezeenith]

Absolutely. I’m sick right now and have been on a binge of his videos, and holy shit I’d pay to listen to him rant for hours.

[@beam8776]

The way you explain junji itos talent is so perfect. U sum it up so well

[@manjmazi]

Courage the Coward;y dog is a classic example of animation and horror. It used to scare the wits out of me and I still remember some scenes vividly

[@sushidevil4244]

i remember the first time ive watched spirited away, the scene where her parents turned into pigs terrified me so much

[@m511hh4]

Saammee

[@fairoadiary]

sushi devil “no name” creature scared me

[@MetalHeadManic612]

Woooooooord.

[@obliteratesgm6370]

M 511hh MEEE FUCKING TOOO

[@fronschka]

I had dreams about that years later when I already forgotten from which movie it was because I was that young

[@attractivecrayon7579]

Over the garden wall is an underrated masterpiece with amazing visuals and aesthetic choice and it can be truly horrifying at times

[@loliaku2051]

Hi There The Beasts true form terrified me

[@sleepiesalem]

Loli Aku The thing that scared me about the beast was that he had such a “normal” sounding voice and the fact that they just always had him in the shadows and all the build up and previous paranoia from the previous episodes to just reveal how horrifying the beast looks.

[@rubenjaramillo1486]

Yo that’s what I was gonna say, it’s not scary in general but that aesthetic should be mentioned and it never leaves the show even after they show what really happened

[@touriannavanalstine]

I'm so glad someone else noticed this about the show 🥺

[@truthseeker9833]

Not really

[@herpaderp1551]

This was a compelling description of Itos work, I’m a massive fan and I have to say you definitely nailed it dude.

[@Eterco]

I think Horror works best without dramatic cuts to shock you, but rather, slow, paced, menacing pans and movement to allow you to slowly realize what is happening

[@Eroxi3]

Please watch Mononoke, it’s a BEAUTIFULLY animated horror anime that is incredible at creating an unsettling atmosphere and story. I’m not talking about Princess Mononoke, just Mononoke. You won’t regret it

[@shihuasun1973]

Mononoke is such a great show (but doesn't get the attention it deserves)! I also recommend Ayakashi which is like a prequel to this series

[@ohwell7101]

just finished watching perfect blue, i was looking for more horror anime, thank you i'll check it out :D

[@dankpepe2110]

@@shihuasun1973 i see, you're a man of culture as well.

[@mustfinish5024]

@@ohwell7101 Can you recommend me some?

[@klemmaofthedollars332]

Shiki is also a great psychological horror

[@usagichanp]

The thing I love about Junji Ito’s stories is how they can make me feel actually physically sick. They make you squirm. I can’t remember the name of it, but that one short where a family is addicted to drinking grease made me ill. That page where the brother (I think? Maybe the dad) pours his grease/pus filled pimples onto the main girl’s face stayed with me forever. He is unlike any other mangaka out there.

[@nerorivera6049]

That one is called glyceride, I just finished reading it and I think I'm traumatized

[@gerardkeay8821]

Glyceride genuinely took me off of fried food. So I did a cosplay of yui...

[@panaceayt]

I'm not one to have nightmares (seriously, I've had maybe 3 in my lifetime), but Glyceride made me so disgusted that I nearly threw up mid-nightmare.

[@joeisgoingout7224]

After reading it my friends decided to torture me with it so that was fun

[@Zeithri]

But that's not horror. That's disgust.

[@ninapilgrim]

Also: I love that Gyo's "origin story" is just Ito watching "Jaws" and thinking: "Well, that was fun.. But what if these sharks had.. LEGS?" I was gonna say most wholesome horror master in the world, but as it happens Stephen King as a person is pretty wholesome too.

[@lillyrith]

4:20-I’ve always appreciated how elegantly you prove your point about anticipatory vs. kneejerk horror with this little bit you do right here.

[@serenasaystoday]

Junji ito gives you that feeling of a nightmare that you cant explain when you wake up

[@jdprettynails]

Ooh that's a great comparison. I've had nightmares that utterly terrified me, but when I explain it to my fiancé it sounds so mundane. "I was sitting in our living room watching TV and.....there was a really sudden zoom effect." I woke up drenched in cold sweat because of this dream!

[@goldflo91]

And you keep that nightmare to yourself because you can't share it with people around you, like it's your own burden

[@yagottapaythetrolltoll3127]

Yes! One that's stuck with me for years still makes no sense everytime I try to explain it to people. It was just me, lying in a field, staring at the night stars. All of a sudden, I felt as if I was being pulled into the night sky, like the solar system itself was exerting some unstoppable force on me. My field of vision expanded as I was pulled into the overwhelming cosmos. In that instant, I understood the true size of the universe and felt engulfed by it. I don't think it's scary to read, but when I dreamt it, it filled me with such anxiety and discomfort that I woke up very startled

[@yaoshiily]

When I was younger (like 8 to 11 years old) I used to have nightmares similar to the spiral ones. but, instead of that, it was about smooth and straight stuff like silk, thread, straight hair etc. and there was a weird eery voice that was raspy whisper-talking to me about this stuff. It was creepy, I didn't know how to explain it. every time I had that nightmare I used to jolt up awake in a cold sweat and either cry in my room (that I used to share with my siblings and our maid, It was split between us 'cause we used to live in a small two bedroom apartment) and wait 'till I fall asleep or go to the living room and sit at the couch that was next to my parent's room (because I didn't want to wake anyone up) and cry until one of them hears me and comes out, and if they don't I just cry myself to sleep. I'm 14 now and we moved out of that apartment when I was 11, and I've only had it once since we moved. So thank god I don't have them anymore.

[@MK-zj6hz]

@@jdprettynails me when I see a sudden zoom effect -> 💀

[@ash1rose]

I’ve always believed the best horror comes from corrupting the ordinary; things we’ve always viewed as innocuous or even endearing. If I want to avoid the monster in the woods, I’ll just stay out of the woods, but I can’t avoid what I live with every day.

[@-shlorble-8552]

Very well put!

[@shyanmarie4405]

When you challenge people's perception of normalicy, then horror takes on a whole new form. It seems to scare people more than say, a jumpscare of a demonic face. All of our lives, even as children, monsters were seen as otherworldly, gargoilish beings. Now, Junji challenged our perception of monsters by making them human. Such as 'Dissolving Classroom', he took something as innocent as an apology and made it deadly.

[@woulfhound]

Unless the woods begins to encroach upon and consume your home, or the monster just comes out of the woods. Then what? You might want to reconsider your beliefs. Since you don't seem familiar with the horror of monsters finding ways invade your safe spaces. You're only afraid of the familiar becoming unfamiliar. Don't be so quick to dismiss one type of horror for another.

[@wildlyrebellious]

That's the element of cosmic horror.

[@joanesperanza7519]

As Abigail Hill started as a lovely girl in the beginning of The Favourite, and turned out to be a disgusting character.

[@taratorsysspanak6793]

Another movie I was truly horrified by was Requirem for a dream, it's not particularly a horror but the fact that everything that was shown there is true somewhere in the world and the excellence of the cinematography or more like the technique that it was made (short and fast clips) A masterpiece

[@kyrasoze516]

I only watched this movie for the first time a couple years ago, in my mid-30s. Horror doesn't scare me. I read Stephen King and the more fucked up the scene gets, the more interested I am, because I want to see what happens and analyze how is conveyed. I watch horror slasher films and get bored when there's just gore and no plot. RfaD had me deeply uncomfortable the entire runtime. I love it but never want to see it again.

[@stelakada7932]

Another great unnerving comic to me is Distant sky (on webtoon), although it tries to explain the events I felt as if every time I knew the plot and what's gonna happen, it threw me in a completely different direction. What got me hooked on it was the suspense and the feeling of dread/hope mixed with gory images and apocalyptic events (which we don't know the cause of yet) and so on. It's mainly b&w, with hints of color which really sets the mood.

[@boo5860]

I thought he was actually gonna give me a jump scare, I instinctively lowered my volume to almost nothing

[@katelijnhovestad8382]

-and hid in the comment section (yeah im a baby)

[@TheCAPTAINDESTROYER]

You're beautiful

[@faroshscale]

Same!!

[@SBVCP]

Same here (if he watnted, after you calm down when he say it wont and start talking about something else, THERE a jumpscare would be really effective

[@DrkPhoenix]

Alannah lol same and i backed away from my phone xD

[@lw1346]

I'm sure it's already been said but The Promised Neverland created an eerie, suspenseful and paranoid environment without relying on jumpscares. It's gorgeously animated and the voice acting is incredible, so much so that it lures you into a false sense of security before reminding you of the danger everywhere

[@nicolelouise9779]

One of the few anime that got me binging it, which is a feat since I tend to get bored and start doing other stuff. It only has a sub, so I couldn't multitask, but it got me hooked. There's happy sugar life, haven't watched it, I heart it's pretty good but I guess it's more thriller or suspense base rather than horror.

[@yourmum569]

tpn is a work of art

[@jazcena]

@@yourmum569 facts

[@pong6377]

Season 2 though

[@myth4278]

Season 2 is FCKED up tho they should have followed the manga

[@Zalzabar]

Dude, been watching you for years and took a class on Comic Books & Manga this Semester in college. This video was used to introduce the Junji Ito collection. Was hyped! Keep up the good work!

[@gothtechsupport2337]

1:30 watching this section over and over again until it clicked for me another reason it made me anxious is the fact that the kid is moving faster than the camera, he feels so close to being out of sight (and thus in danger), maybe other older siblings or parents know what I mean? the worst stomach drop you'll ever get is when you lose track of a child.

[@jeremy-loves-cherries]

I once lost my three year old sibling at a children’s museum (she’s fine, I didn’t notice my mom and her going to the bathroom) when I was trying to get another one to behave, that’s what this reminds me of too

[@hendrapfr]

Uzumaki is not horror. It's a traumatic experience. Now I can't see a spiral, without a feeling that that thing will swallow my existence

[@3nu570]

I also felt uneasy about spirals after finishing Uzumaki, but I got over it after a while. But I never got over the snails. The snails man. I was never afraid of or disgusted by snails, but now every time I see one I'm just like "nope"'. Spoilers for Uzumaki: The fact that humans turned into snails, got roasted in a fire and then humans ate them is disgusting and traumatizing enough, but I think the thing that got to me the most was that one panel where there was a burnt snail and it's face, the expression it had...it sent shivers down my spine. It wasn't even some detailed and complicated drawing, but that face will forever haunt me.

[@s_9785]

3nu! Same with me, the snail people concept was one of the scariest in my opinion. I wasn’t that fond of snails to begin with but now they horrify me.

[@piecrust6779]

Dude I can relate so hard to this like even right now I have a small fan in my room that is kinda in a spiral pattern and its making me nervous, I also had to look away when he first put that white spiral on screen cause it made me dizzy and gave me a sense o f unease.

[@eveastle516]

Imagine living with curly hair :P Spirals...spirals everywhere...

[@jaredgarcia8638]

Yeah, hi from the future. I've come to say that said manga will be adapted into an anime on Toonami

[@bethany8379]

I remember when I was at a birthday party and it was just me and a couple of other girls were around 12 and we did watch Perfect Blue by ourselves cuz one of the girls brought it from her sister's room who like the anime and we all thought it would be like a cute Studio Ghibli kind of film but dang were we were wrong and we were all literally scared to death.

[@woooshifyougay5103]

i watched it a few days ago. i am traumatised

[@mugiikari1641]

@@Victor_Graves You think that’s scary? Yubaba is a real life person and her name is Susan Collins

[@thesyndicate834]

I've watched Perfect Blue a few days ago. It was confusing to watch.

[@thatvickiegirluknow]

@@woooshifyougay5103 what was traumatizing about it?

[@astreaeuph8401]

@@mugiikari1641 what - 👁️👄👁️

[@Musty_Moth]

Gave up the like because the jumpscare threat genuinely made my heart race gg mate

[@gumbogambit]

I do love the jumps you make into horror works!

[@TheSecretLover]

Me: can't stand horror Also me: watches videos about horror in the middle of the night. Clearly, I must hate myself.

[@Samm815]

TheSecretLover I’m the same. Though I prefer the supernatural elements of horror rather than the horror itself.

[@SunnyAznable]

Have either of you considered that maybe this is a positive thing, that is you wanting to expand your horizons and erode a weakness somewhere deep down? I think it's a good thing. Don't hate yourselves!

[@SBVCP]

its the same masochism that lead horror lovers to more horror. the only difference is ther esistance. i myself im not he best (nor the worst) with thorror. and is odd but i laugh at the emily rose exorcist (that demon looked like a heroine addicted trans), but things like the ring, i dont find them appealing. not that they dont scare , just i cant enjoy them i hate those (sorry for bad english) Anyway, there are many manyessays on why we incstinctively look into for horror and its unsettling feeling while we are on apleacefull enviroment

[@probablytonikensa4744]

TheSecretLover yep. same here.

[@FoxyBoxery]

TheSecretLover Good meme

[@illfigure9270]

Who else was waiting for the jump scare even after he said he wasn’t going to do it? 💀

[@Scylok]

That's true horror

[@deviousj5868]

That is true fear.

[@yashvardhangaur8547]

That is true fear.

[@shanayap7578]

I'm on my phone and have my headphones in...so I muted the video and turned my screen to the side 😂

[@theceeceecmvc]

I was honestly covering my phone’s speaker and slowly backing my phone away from me 🤣

[@AwokenEntertainment]

the anticipation of your jump-scare scared me more than an actual jump-scare

[@legendaryingaming8806]

2:04 Ah, lovely art.

[@h8rdwork653]

Every horror movie director needs to watch this.

[@2PlayDead]

I think David Lynch set the bar for horror and the power of the ideas proposed in this video since his debut in the late 70s. I'd recommend his films to anyone who appreciates art, not simply just horror.

[@Turboss_38]

+Murderotica That scene in Mulholland Drive where we slowly turn around the corner to see that creature is one of the most shocking/scary scenes. He knows how to make the audience uncomfortable

[@riffz6065]

I totally agree. Horror movies need to go back to being MOSTLY Dread and Atmosphere with MINOR scare tactics/Jump scares. I'd say a good 80/20 or 90/10 balance would be ideal.

[@baht8580]

There's an ocean of difference between startling someone and actually scaring them. Your not scared of your dog but if it comes up quietly behind you and barks really loud your gonna jump.

[@darkstarr984]

Really. My physical reactions to being startled get confusingly interpreted as fear by other people when my main physical reaction to fear is that I get clammy skin and start to tear up. Maybe it’s because what scares me is usually inescapable existential or cosmic horrors and the unknowable. Like, if I see a ghost I know I’m seeing it but there’s no way to know for sure if anything is there. If nothing is wrong with my environment and apparently nothing with my brain and body… *then wtf am I seeing?* It’s happened a couple of times when I was young, it didn’t matter that I *knew* there was no danger, it’s just… “wait what’s going on?” and nothing explained it.

[@Captain_Shorts654]

19:30 I guess you can say things "spiraled" out of control

[@hatsukotaro]

This was my introduction to your channel. i'm so glad I found it

[@TheJege12]

The lack of the jumpscare actually made me more uneasy for the rest of the video, great job :'D

[@samwallaceart288]

I was low-key expecting a jumpscare at the end of the video.

[@juanvazquez5836]

And that's... How media scares us *boom*

[@voltron-eb6sx]

@@juanvazquez5836 *_d a m n_*

[@serbrofist9732]

We always seem to be waiting for the jumpscares to find us.

[@KailReborn]

It's the effect of 'nothing is scarier', which I adore in horror. The idea that a lack of any direct scare allows our minds to fill in the blanks or build a sense of creeping anxiety or dread, which is almost always worse.

[@enix0053]

the moment you fade to black my mind automatically assumes defensive position and awaited the jumpscare, in which you beautifully show how easy it is to do, and how cheap it is for pop media to overuse it along with that stupid booming sound effects. whenever i go to watch horror movies, this is what i always point out to whomever im with. that scare and panic/shock is not the same.

[@drakeford3238]

Still, it works just fine for some people. I have a friend who is a 350 lb MMA fighter who could stomp most people into a finely ground dust, but every time there's a jump scare (even in non-horror movies) he's libel to go through my ceiling.

[@enix0053]

Drake Ford as Super eyepatch wolf said, still he was not afraid. its a shock that got overused by modern horror films. like in the example of the shining, and insidious. (although sometimes it works) i think the overuse of jump scares are because of the transition of the directors and/or writers who handle older and modern films.

[@drakeford3238]

Jesslee Tumamao Nah, he's *definitely* scared. XD In general though, you're right. For me they've gotten to predictable to even illicit a flinch.

[@enix0053]

Drake Ford true, like when in this video he fades to black right? you know it's coming. thats what happens in modern horro xD thats why i cringe everytime theres an advertisement about insidious, the conjuring, annabelle, etc.

[@usamasiddiqui8235]

Jesslee Tumamao my reaction is always putting down my phone, or any device, and watch from a safe distance, its not that i think whatever the Jump scare (if any) would literally come out, its very different, it helps me to calm down and help not get my heart racing, it is exciting the way that happens but not always for me....

[@qualitymusic8212]

4:15 My favourite part.

[@SaziSkylion]

One of the best parts of Junji Ito's work, for me, is the way he draws pupils after a character starts to lose his/her mind. It's not a circle anymore, but a shapeless scribble that I feel reflects the corruption of their very soul Eyes are the window to the soul after all

[@sleepyowl76]

I say Coraline is good animated horror. The Other Mother and The Other Father are so creepy and uncanny...

[@zzenichu1225]

gray leopard ill never forget how scary that tiny door and path is

[@ninjapirate47]

one of the most horrible scenes in Coraline (movie) is when she returns to the other world and she sees Wybie's jacket displayed like a flag flapping in the breeze with no explanation as to what happened to him. Unsettling. The mere deceptive concept of the book and movie is also unsettling. Although I found the other father to be very endearing as he was created only to love Coraline and doesn't actually mean her any harm at all. plus... that song.

[@chaplindrondago4240]

Oh maaaannnnn. When the two old ladies were in the candy wrapper and they kept grabbing at Coraline while she was trying to get the ghost eye from their hands, that freaked me out. And when the dad sunk into the ground after Coraline got ghost eye from the pumpkin he was riding, and how his voice was all wonky- OH MAN- such a good freaking movie.

[@nugget4339]

I got scared before I remember

[@thomas.thomas]

4:40 this jumpscare that didn't came was really unsettling

[@belleville1805]

The anticipation freaks me out XD

[@naizamabao4681]

Yeah

[@kibareh2606]

Yoo I’m on edge waiting for a surprise jumpscare 😂

[@MrL0WEL]

This is the video that introduced me to Eyepatch Wolf, and I still say it’s his greatest.

[@akshara10]

This happened to me when I watched midsommar....the creeps, the weird feeling in my stomach, felt like that for days

[@whythehecknot2754]

I honestly find that the scariest things are the twisting of things we know and see on a daily basis. Because we expect to see these things with certain features but it doesnt have them.

[@Trepanation21]

This is one of the fundamental concepts of the body horror genre (which Ito is very clearly a part of and influenced by). It relates to our psychological rejection of graphic or disturbing violations of the human body and its the "normals" we expect of it.

[@raynachristian4627]

One of the scariest things for me are people but one feature of them is off. Having eyes that are to big, way to many teeth, being to long

[@teoi]

Domestic horror

[@TheReeShow]

Junji wrote a story that was almost identical to a dream I had once and reading it I was just saying "no no no" the whole time. It was crazy to read something I had dreamed.

[@stanleyleroy]

TheReeShow what was it?

[@mitierra7954]

Was it a LONG DREAM? lol

[@pugburger5403]

it is a long dream

[@CatchTheBirdie]

I read that too! And apparently loads of people experience these dreams, which is just so messed up and can't even deal with that. 'Cause then you have to ask, what shared memories do we as a species have that make us all have these dreams? What used to hunt us that's left identical nightmares in our psyche even now? And is it still out there...?

[@TheReeShow]

it was the human shaped hole one for people wondering. A lot of others have sworn they've had the same dream. Collective consciousness.

[@calowenby1654]

Such a fantastic video!

[@WubNubDubs]

"theres nothing frightening about a spiral" Me: *Remembers the saw franchise*