We continue our jet-setting ways by taking a turn towards Japan for the notorious director Takashi Miike's "Ichi the Killer", based on a manga of the same name by Hideo Yamamoto. We made sure that Mike & Iris from the Badasses, Boobs & Body Counts podcast had their passports up to date, as we definitely needed their help getting through this gross-out, action-packed Yakuza film with just enough instances of revenge-fueled, torturous gore to make it on this list as a horror film. Alongside our discussion, we touch upon the decade of the 'aughts and the takeover of the horror genre by the critically and controversially termed "torture porn" film.

Big props to Mike, who came to our rescue when our recording came up Triple-Zeroes in the time category. Though it was recorded a day AFTER Friday the 13th, we had no luck with our recorder. Mike, you're Lester and my hero!

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Direct download (right click & save as): Episode 089 - Ichi the Killer (2001)

Notes:

Check out the book on "Torture Porn" HERE

Go listen to the Projection Booth HERE

Closing music: Eminem, "3 A.M."