PushingUpRoses AKA SuckingOutFatness (Advocate of suicide, Queen of cucking LGR)

[Kugelfisch]

Fuuuuuuck me, I can't tell if the worst picture was one with an entire colony popping out like a bunch of zits, or that one were a worm gets pulled out of an eyeball.

Dogs often get affected by Magoworms, having their entire snout affected. It's plain terrible. Like I said, everyone has his own breaking point with those kinda phobias and I've yet to meet anyone that is okay watching that stuff.
I guess technically parasites is a different phobia but, blurred lines, right?

Also something to relax your eyes.

I find the one with the shaped holes in the mountain be be his best creepy story. Yeah, a bit of a normal fag choice but I've read about 90% of his works and it's still the most eerie.

The Enigma of Amigara Fault. Pretty good choice, actually. Just short enough that the premise doesn't become too ridiculous, and most of the body horror is for the reader's mind to conjure up.
My favorite Ito work is probably The Long Dream. Not really horror, but pretty messed up in a way, especially when the guy turns to dust at the end because his last dream lasted forever.

A true meme classic!


You know, for the most part the body horror does nothing for me. In that regard I actually find The Model and Dear Boy (you know which ones I mean) just about the best.
But the Enigma one is the creepiest. Because nothing is explained at all and it's overall so surreal. Holes appear, people get curious and some just go "This was made for me" and go full automaton right into it and disappear. The mystery makes it for me.
It's a bit like some dude jumping into a woodchipper wouldn't be horror. Gruesome, yes. But not frightening. You know exactly what's going on. It's why I can laugh at idiots jumping to their death IRL. Anticipation "Is this idiot going to jump?" Hope. "I hope he does!" and the payoff "Fuck yeah! Dude jumped!" everything after is just a formality. You know what's going to happen.

The only ones that I'd call as eerie would be the one where the balloon faces strangle people, that one is really creepy, or the town where everyone forgets directions instantly. The ones in the house of the family that is basically The Addams FAmily just murderers isn't all that hot.
The one where the entire city grew together is also good. I am generally not so much affected by body horror but when odd shit happens to things and people are just daft about it it makes stuff more eerie.

Oh and the one with the blood-drinking roots was just goofy.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

I'd probably take any given zombie apocalypse over a balloon clone of my head begging me to come outside so it can strangely me - especially because I can't do anything about it because anything that happens to the balloon happens to my own head.
The Addams family one was mostly a dark comedy sort of deal, with the only normal member of the family getting triggered by his relatives' antics.
A city growing together doesn't quite ring a bell right now, outside of maybe one chapter of Uzumaki or Army of One, were people would get stichted together into an art installation made out of corpses in the span it takes you to look away for a moment (which is pretty effed up).

Another creepy one IMO is one where missing people just start falling from the sky. Nothing too fancy, but still eerie.

An interesting (though not too well executed most of the time) are those stories about Oshikiri, the boy living alone in a fuckhuge mansion that keeps overlapping with alternate realities, usually ones where his AR self is some kind of mad scientist or serial killer.
A much better boy protagonist is Souichi, that deranged voodoo kid who in one story (actually a dream he has in school afaik) ends up marrying The Model. He's my hero.

[Complicity]

My favorite Ito work is probably The Long Dream. Not really horror, but pretty messed up in a way, especially when the guy turns to dust at the end because his last dream lasted forever.

You just know that's how Spoony is going to croak.

But the Enigma one is the creepiest. Because nothing is explained at all and it's overall so surreal. Holes appear, people get curious and some just go "This was made for me" and go full automaton right into it and disappear. The mystery makes it for me.

Imo the disturbing part about it is the sense of claustrophobia it creates.
I believe Army of one is his best.

Oh and the one with the blood-drinking roots was just goofy.

Not as goofy as the one with the African trees with teleporting branches which splats you like a fly if you eat their honey.

Speaking of Junji Itou, recently i have been playing this crap which blatantly rips him off:



I guess it's decent if you have 20 minutes to waste.

[GitGud]

Imagen a maggot infestation on your dick. From head to shaft while you are chained to a wall so you can watch. Then when it is the worst, someone tosses you a sharp boxcutter and releases your hands

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

That would certainly change the game for torture porn.

I believe Army of one is his best.

I'd watch the shit out of an adaption, be it animated or live-action.
Sure, the world of horror movies has plenty of instances of weird shit happening while the camera pans somewhere else for a bit, but that's usually to set up jump scares or scary ghosts standing behind you in reflections. Just seeing a bunch of naked dead people stitched together for no reason would be something else.

[GitGud]

Ohhh you saw my basement?

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Not really, but it seems we have something in common...

[GitGud]

Laughing when a suicider hits the ground? Or hits something like poles on the way down? Yes. That chink that got that pole up his ass after his jump had me rolling

[Kugelfisch]

Speaking of Junji Itou, recently i have been playing this crap which blatantly rips him off:



I guess it's decent if you have 20 minutes to waste.

Spoon played that on a Livewire. I've seen it on GOG and decided that it's not for me.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

How often do horror games even work?