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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

And this is Joe McCormick.

And today on Weird House Cinema, we're going to be talking about the 1988, Taiwanese fantasy martial arts movie, Magic of Spell.

This movie is overwhelming, Rob.

I'm so glad you picked it.

I was watching it with Rachel multiple times in the evening right before bed,

and she was very tired and like, I really need to go to bed. But every new moment, there was something that, like, put the hook in.

It was like, no, I got to watch for another few minutes. And it's kind of relentless in that regard.

So, wow, what a choice this was.

Yeah, yeah. I was really conflicted on what sort of movie to pick for today because we have several things going on at once. You know, it's like Valentine's Day, almost here. So I was thinking maybe a

paranormal romance of some sort. But we kind of got into that a bit with the last selection.

So I wasn't heartbroken over not going in that direction.

But then also it was Friday the 13th.

So I was like, okay, maybe some sort of a slasher.

And then also I was thinking, well, you know, we have Lunar New Year coming up here as well.

So maybe, you know something from asian cinema

would be appropriate and I was looking at some pretty serious and artsy titles um you know some

stuff that was already a little bit in the the bummer category you know and it was in the day that I

had to pick the film was also just like the news cycle was especially depressing and demoralizing.

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