2014 · horror · survival · manga
As the Gods Will
Directed by Takashi Miike1h 57m2014
High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.
Our read: As the Gods Will (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal horror · survival · manga entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme horror / survival, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
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