A Tale of Two Sisters

But the movies I would be renting to spend my evening, I would, uh, get my Burger King meal, go home, pop in Freddy vs. Jason, starting it off as a rental.

A Tale of Two Sisters, the Korean film, came out that year before October.

So?

And, well, I, I love that movie, and I remember watching-

I haven't, no.

Um, the, the bear in that movie.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, that's, that's-

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And this week, our week two, we're watching, well, we're watching another horror movie, this one brought by myself.

And that movie that I brought in is Ghostwatch from 1992, directed by Leslie Manning.

And he directed A Bittersweet Life.

Um, uh, he also directed The Quiet King, The Quiet Family, sorry, The Foul King, uh, uh, Tale of Two Sisters, The Good, The Bad, The Weird, I Saw the Devil, The Last Stand, the Arnie film.

Um-

Great, great Arnie film, by the way.

Yeah, totally.

Um, there's this Korean film that came out a couple decades ago called A Tale of Two Sisters.

That's one that I remember being absolutely terrifying.

It just plays into dread so well.

It's a, uh, horror film.

It was a, an adaptation of the, uh, what's, people know as the Tale of Two Sisters.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

They're not uniquely Korean.

Um, they, um, yeah, a lot of the stories are, the way they're kinda depicted, especially later in film, is that yeah, they need help, or, or the way the stories are often told in a way is that they need help, and it's usually from a man.

But if you look at, um, a lot of the ways the stories are told, especially like the, The Tale of Two Sisters, like the, the, that, that tale, um, the way it's often told, y- y- they are virgins.

The girls are virgins, but that's not why they become ghosts.

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We've watched three of his films now, 'cause we also did A Tale of Two Sisters a couple years ago.

I mean, we've basically-

Yep

For me, these are movies that are a little spooky, but that I can easily enjoy and reap the mental health benefits from, and where my nervous system feels nice and cozy and regulated.

If we go all the way to the very scary side, I place a movie like A Tale of Two Sisters or even further for that matter, something like Megan Is Missing, which for me is a movie I will just never watch based on the subject matter, because I know it's completely past my window of tolerance, and it would upset me in a way that is not fun, and why torture ourselves, am I right? Horror is supposed to be fun.

It's supposed to help us navigate our own darkness, and it's supposed to be a place to lay down our anxieties for a few hours.

I love spooky movies that go a little easier on their audience because it helps the genre to be inclusive and accessible.

We've already watched one of his films on this podcast a couple years ago.

We watched A Tale of Two Sisters as part of our Halloween extravaganza.

Um, so we're watching maybe his most recognized film, maybe his best film.

I haven't seen all his movies, but I'm assuming his most viscerally brutal film, um, and that is I Saw the Devil.