Infectious Enthusiasm - CURE (1997)

Ringing in the scariest month of the year, Dolly Back is mesmerized by Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure, a 1997 detective thriller that is equal parts horrific and incisive. As a gruesome crime wave sweeps Chiba, Detective Takabe joins forces with the psychologist Sakuma to uncover the mysteries behind the distinct X pattern slashed into their neck and the amnesiac wanderer cropping up at crime scenes. What ensues is a prognosis on polite society, entangling memory, sound, national history, and the apparatus itself as Kurosawa probes the transference of myths and morbidity in a Japan about to enter the next millennium, all of which your hosts are eager to tackle this week! As the podcast embarks on a journey of delightfully scarier fare than usual for October,  make sure to pay close attention to their voices as they kick off...

Anton Bitel's Review - "Discover the hypnotic mystery of this nihilistic thriller"