The Oh, Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror

Podcasting from the Horror Halls of Academia. I'm Alex West with Andrea

Subasati and we are back for the month of May and we're talking

about a film that is beloved it's also kind of reviled it has a lot of feelings and emotions around it. I know I certainly have a lot of feelings

and emotions around it. And it's one of the few times for this podcast that I hadn't seen

the movie that we're going to talk about before prepping for this episode.

So this was pretty cool and if you didn't already know, we are talking about Takashi Mique's audition.

And this is a film that often gets brought up

in a lot of like the 25 best horror movies

you've never seen or the most fucked up horror ever.

And it kind of falls in line with those lists,

so I'd been aware of it for so long

and I sat down to watch it a few years ago.

I think I got about 20 minutes in and I liked it,

but I could just tell I was not in the

right mood for it. So I was having kind of a weird day a couple weeks ago, came home,

watched it and totally fell in love with it. I guess the way you fall in love with this movie if you do.

Yeah, it's really interesting that a lot of those lists that refer to this film as influential and one of the best and one of the craziest and one of the most memorable

scenes ever depicted in horror don't really go that deep into it. I was kind of

intrigued at how surface level a lot of the analyses out there was so I'm really

excited to get into it today on the podcast and I think because there is so much

going on in this movie and it's such a long movie that spans genres and stories and

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