Junji Ito is likely one of the largest horror creators in manga, and his lengthy profession has led to numerous adaptations of his work. Whereas a lot of it as of late has been in anime kind, a number of tales corresponding to Scarecrow and Uzumaki have been tailored in reside motion.
The subsequent manga of his to get the difference remedy is Bloodsucking Darkness. Per Variety, the brief story of the identical title shall be delivered to movie written and government produced by Jeff Howard (Midnight Mass, Haunting of Hill Home. At time of writing, a director hasn’t been locked in, however Fangoria Studios shall be backing the movie, and additional plans to additionally adapt two different tasks from Ito’s vampire anthology, Smashed. Mentioned Ito (who’ll be producing the movie), “I’m so excited to see the way it will prove. I hope I get to see the trailer in my desires tonight.”
Talking to Selection, Howard had reward for the supply materials, saying he “chased after [Bloodsucking Darkness] with every little thing I had. After I discovered a reside motion Junji Ito adaptation was going to occur […] I simply couldn’t reside with anybody else getting there earlier than me.”
Originally launched as a part of the Voices within the Darkish anthology again in 2003, Bloodsucking Darkness facilities on Nami, a younger lady with an consuming dysfunction who begins to vomit blood. Her life takes a flip when she meets Kazuya, and the 2 kind a bond earlier than issues…take some turns for the each of them, with vampire bats additionally getting concerned within the combine. The story has been reprinted quite a few occasions below completely different titles corresponding to Blood-Slurping Darkness or The Darkish Drinks Blood.
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Till Bloodsucking Darkness hits theaters (or Shudder), there’s different diversifications of Junji Ito’s work to look at on-line, and even play in some circumstances. The newest of the bunch is Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre, which hit Netflix again in January.
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