Manga creator Junji Ito uses Tomie to offer a unique take on femme fatales. It's common knowledge that Ito is a master of his craft. His beautifully haunting and detailed artwork is memorizing and uncanny to the eye. Ito's stories are unsettling, often taking the mundane and the comfortable and twisting them into untold horrors beyond comprehension. Such is the case in one of his most beloved classics, Tomie. This widely acclaimed series is a tragic and terrifying tale of a beautiful young woman and the men who obsess over her. It is easy to call Tomie herself somewhat of a femme fatale, but that would do this terrific tale a disservice.
Bob Clark's 1974 horror film Black Christmas is one of the most influential slasher movies of all time, and it has an unforgettably chilling ending. In Black Christmas Billy is considered the villain as he picks off victims one by one, and after almost 50 years, his identity is still debated. The story takes place in a sorority house, where the residents are throwing a Christmas party before they depart. Little do they know, however, that a perverted killer has made his way into the house, and is preparing to pick them off one by one. The Billy Black Christmas character remains in the shadows for most of the movie, that is, until the chilling ending.
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