[thrandrall]

Well when you think about it, something like "Uzumaki" (the movie is incredibly tame compared to the comics) is pretty disturbing overall - maybe not frightening in the way that something like that is never physically going to happen - but going along for the ride gets more and more twisted especially since the visuals are somewhat fascinating at the same time as being disturbing...

It's a lot like Lovecraft - although you have to do a lot more of the imaginings yourself...I mean the descriptions in "Shadow over Innsmouth" inspire a mixture of curiosity and disgust - then when you see some visualizations in Yuzna and Gordon's "Dagon" adaptation - it is both revealing and disappointing in different measures....as a simple example - there are plenty of other stories out there that feature different levels of that sort of thing.