Spook-tober - Lesson of Evil REVIEW with Bad Movies We Love

In the first of a series of guest episodes we have leading up to Halloween, we invited Nick Sheist of the Bad Movies We Love podcast onto the show to watch and share his thoughts on Takashi Miike's 2012 thriller Lesson of Evil.

 Based on Yusuke Kishi's novel of the same name, this film has been criticised for its debatable taste in the handling of sensitive topics - if you know you know. Because of this it was banished to the realm of cult cinema like many Miike joints before it.

 But does has it been fairly judged??

 Nick Sheist brings his professional eye for bad movies to the podcast to help us answer this question.

 Speaking of bad movies, if you have a movie that you love but everybody else hates, Nick has probably talked about it on his podcast. Check out Bad Movies We Love and the other delightful podcasts on the Sheist Network. In fact, why not start with the episode where he talked to us, the Two Asian Blokes, about Jet Li's 2001 classic, The One?

Bad Movies We Love -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/4S44u7dUwUr2JHd1REaxKA?si=JtgUhWYdTuW4bvnPgsXTlw

 Sheist Network -- https://sheistpodnet.captivate.fm/

 Link Tree -- https://linktr.ee/nicksheist/

00:00 The Start
02:00 Bad Movies We Love
05:44 What did Nick grow up watching?
16:00 Lesson of Evil
18:31 The synopsis
25:14 Nick's initial thoughts
34:15 The production design
38:55 The structure
47:00 Did Nick like it?
54:46 Sensitive American themes
1:02:33 The Bad Hollywood Remake
1:16:04 Closing thoughts

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