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Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We have one awesome episode in store for you guys. In this episode we’re talking about South Korean horror films: 2003’s A Tale Of Two Sisters and 2017’s The Mimic. We are advising anyone who hasn’t seen the films to watch them before proceeding, and both films are available on the Shudder streaming service.

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We start by briefly discussing what we’ve done lately involving horror. We discuss Shudder’s new series Cursed Films, and Justin talks about seeing the films Housewife and Swallow.

Up first is A Tale Of Two Sisters. We begin by giving our backgrounds in Asian horror films and what we’re familiar with, and Justin talks about how it’s a subgenre he’s not quite familiar with beyond the basics. Liam discusses how terrified of J-horror he is and how affected he was by Ju-On. We then move on to discuss how the film marks the shift away from Japan to South Korea as the epicenter of Asian horror. The distinctive visual style of East Asian horror films as they relate to East Asian concepts of ghosts is touched upon.

We talk about the emotionally crushing nature of the film, and how it blends numerous upsetting strains of tone to makea genuinely albeit horrific to behold film. We dissect how the appeal of the film comes from how absolutely over the top every element of the film is and how if it wasn’t quite so crazy it wouldn’t be that appealing. We discuss how the film utilizes many of the elements American horror cinema has taken and overdone but instead uses them to great effect.

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