The By the end of the 1990s mainstream American horror was moving away from blood and gore.

Slick psychological thrillers and teen slashes were more interested in A-list stars than they were blood and guts. And movies like The Sixth Sense and the Blair Witch Project were swinging the pendulum back

towards the more ghostly supernatural outside of the US. Over in East Asia, Japanese and Korean filmmakers like Takachemike and Park Chan Wook were pushing

the genre towards increasingly disturbing and extreme levels. Creating some of the most shocking, provocative, and challenging movies in cinema history. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

now, oh, oh, oh,

oh, oh,

that you know, that you know,

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... ... Join me as we continue our journey through the mind and body and we discuss Park Chan Wook's old boy and to Cashé Mique's audition. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your

host. If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome. In this podcast, we explore and

dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-jomras

one series at a time. We are currently in the middle of our sixth series exploring the mind and

body in horror cinema and this is part 22. This episode is sponsored by

20 dollar patron Katie Dyer.

And in this episode, as that intro suggested,

we are going to be exploring two East Asian classics

from the turn of the millennium.

Takache Mique's audition from 1999 and Park Chan Wooks, Old Boy from 2003.

Both these movies will be spoilerific reviews and if you haven't seen them please go away and

watch them before listening to our reviews because both these movies have two of

the most incredible gob-smacking final acts in the history of cinema and you really

don't want to be spoiled on them before you experience them so please go away and give them a watch before listening to our

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