If you loved As the Gods Will, try Lesson of the Evil

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Takashi Miike, and they both carry the raw, unhinged mood tags, and they sit in Horror / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to As the Gods Will, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Lesson of the Evil is

Japan. Autumn. A single, buzzing cicada. Mr. Hasumi, everyone's favorite teacher, smiles, always smiling, as he calmly poisons and massacres his high school students. Miike's exercise in blood-spray nihilism plays like an amped-up J-horror riff on *The Bad Seed*.

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