Who is Tomie? If you want to say it plain, Tomie is a character created by master horror mangaka Junji Ito – a young woman whose beauty so affects its beholders they must kill her, only for Tomie to regenerate again and again to destroy their lives. But Tomie isn’t just a character: She’s an elemental force, beauty and vanity curdled into a thousand pieces waiting behind every corner to confront those who both covet and cringe at her visage. AFS’s Lates series screens a newly restored edition of the pretty terror’s first cinematic manifestation, but rest assured she’s got a nine-film franchise. Anyone working on a Tomie disembodied-head popcorn bucket? – James Scott
Jan. 17-18
