"The book is better." We've all heard that idiom, and many times it's true. Marvel films are two hours at least, based on comics that have decades of celebrated, or occasionally, sordid history. Something's gonna get left out.

Enter "King of Thorn". There's an film out there, and it's good. Pretty standard modern horror anime. But KoT has six volumes that introduce a mysteriously failed world, pull us deeper into it, only to give us a psychological twist at the end that M. Night Shamylan used to be able to pull on us. Not to mention a sly exit scene from the creator. Nice touch.

Resident Evil meets Dino Crisis with a little "plague to end all plagues" thrown in (we can relate, huh?). One of the best stories I've read and some of my favorite art. I got attached to these characters as they fight for their lives against a nightmare they weren't expecting to wake up into.

You want the Cliffnotes edition, go watch the movie, I recommend it. If you want a story that will keep you up at night, the manga is better.