Thriller
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the thriller genre.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
‘El Camino’ is a dressed-up but empty continuation of ‘Breaking Bad’s’ lesser material. Unwilling to change the canon, the suspense falls flat. (read more)
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Drifting Net Café
While Shūzō Oshimi normally handles sexual content with tact, ‘Drifting Net Café’ is possibly his most exploitative work. How much does it drag the work down? (Warning: Review is currently only unedited notes.) (read more)
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Gantz: G
A side story spin-off of the hugely popular ‘Gantz’ series, original creator Hiroya Oku entrusts 2/3 of ‘Gantz: G’ to Tomohito Ohsaki. Will they meet the original’s standards? (read more)
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Gantz
Hiroya Oku’s ‘Gantz’ is exploitative, violent, and shameless—and there’s nothing else quite like it. (Includes ‘Gantz/Nishi’ and ‘Gantz Origins: Oku Hiroya and SF Movie Stories.’) (read more)
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Happiness
Shūzō Oshimi returns to supernatural horror elements with the vampiric manga, ‘Happiness.’ (read more)
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Hideout
Masasumi Kakizaki, author of the manga ‘Rainbow’ and ‘Green Blood,’ delivers a solid, short horror-thriller. (read more)
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Infected Island
A pandemic threatens all of Japan in ‘Infected Island,’ a mediocre medical thriller written by Masasumi Kakizaki, author of ‘Rainbow’ and ‘Green Blood.’ (read more)
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Emerging
‘Emerging’ is a medical thriller about a deadly pandemic sweeping across Japan. It’s also really stupid. (read more)
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Goth
At only one volume, ‘Goth’ is a fine read for horror and psychological thriller fans. Solid, noir-like art. I found much of the mysteries and character development to be either contrived or predictable. (read more)
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Buried
Your mileage may vary, since the concept of being buried alive terrifies me. As far as I’m concerned, ‘Buried’ does a fine job of narrowing in on that sense of helplessness. (read more)