Jonathon Wilson

The Turkish Netflix drama Shahmaran has a lot going on, splicing together multiple genres with complicated mythology across eight long episodes, the last of which,...

I must confess to having laughed at the premise of Shahmaran. You can blame Netflix. The streamer presented a summary to me with such complete...

The Netflix anime anthology Junji Ito Maniac adapts the collected works of beloved mangaka Junji Ito into 20 stories spread across 12 25-minute episodes. This breezy collection is an ideal...

The Netflix anime anthology Junji Ito Maniac adapts the collected works of beloved mangaka Junji Ito into 20 stories spread across 12 25-minute episodes. Ito is a...

“Whispering Woman” is adapted from the eighth chapter of Ma No Kakera, and treads unusual territory by being rooted in friendship and a positive bond,...

“Alley”, essentially a murder mystery with a supernatural slant, is adapted from Back Alley, the fifth chapter of The Bully from Horror World of Junji Ito. For Ito...

This double-bill episode collects, I think, the weirdest pair of stories in Junji Ito Maniac, not in terms of their actual content but in how...

Tomie is one of Junji Ito’s most iconic characters. She got an entire volume devoted to her in Horror World of Junji Ito and her...

Oh goodness, this is a weird one. There’s a case to be made that this is the most horrifying and imaginative episode of Junji Ito Maniac thus...

Junji Ito Maniac abandons the dual-story structure in its seventh episode to instead deliver a more comprehensive and focused adaptation of Street of Gravestones (or...

“Mold”, a story adapted from the seventh volume of Horror World of Junji Ito, Slug Girl, is another creeping tale of rapidly-worsening circumstances that revolves heavily...

“Intruder”, taken from the ninth volume of Horror World of Junji Ito, Hallucinations, has a clever concept that is horrifying in a low-key, imaginative way, and...

The third episode of Junji Ito Maniac is my favorite so far, a hauntingly horrible bit of work adapted from the fourth volume of Horror World of...

The second episode of Junji Ito Maniac is the first of the anthology’s two-parters. “The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel” is the title story in...

The first episode of the Netflix anthology Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre adapts a single story from The Circus is Here, the fifth...

Some horror creators have a knack for imagery and concepts that make the average viewer worry for their sanity. How often, for instance, have you...

“Faster” is, essentially, a standalone episode of The Bad Batch. Echo and Hunter aren’t even in it. It has no bearing on the wider overarching...

As we approach the end of National Treasure: Edge of History, we’re starting to get that feeling of the stakes being heightened. I mean, look...

Returning with relatively little fanfare to the recently rebranded MGM+, Godfather of Harlem remains one of the shows that nobody seems to talk much about despite...

After a relatively underwhelming premiere, Mayfair Witches returns in “The Dark Place” for… well, a relatively underwhelming second episode, if we’re being honest. The mixed...