For Zac Lim Eubank, there's only one movie that delivers exceptional sound design, calculated editing, and non-stop tension, and it's Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure. Random acts of violence seem to follow a mysterious, wandering man who appears ghost-like but is very grounded in reality.

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Zac Lim Eubank is Chief Creative Officer at Hyper Rabbit Media, an award-winning video production, interactive, and livestreaming studio. He heads up the creative development and technical direction for Hyper with his wife and CEO Malika Lim Eubank and their full service production company is experienced with livestreaming, virtual production, motion control, scripted or unscripted productions, events coverage, original content creation, and audience engagement and gamification. Zac has over 10 years of creative leadership with video production and community strategy for such clients as Microsoft, Amazon, Nintendo, Twitch, AMC Networks, Mapquest, and more. His prior work includes showrunning Legendary Digital's Geek and Sundry Twitch channel, working with several of Hollywood's top talent.

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Cure (1997)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123948/

https://letterboxd.com/director/kiyoshi-kurosawa/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/movies/kiyoshi-kurosawa-primer.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/movies/film-in-review-cure.html

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Allegory of the Cave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave

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Collectivism

https://sites.psu.edu/global/2018/11/04/4908/

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170118-how-east-and-west-think-in-profoundly-different-ways

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Franz Mesmer, mesmerism

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/super-e/feature/franz-anton-mesmer-1734-1815

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Violence in Film

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_film

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls076483352/

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Other movies and shows discussed, alphabetical list

Chime (2024)

Dead Ringers (1988)

Heat (1995)

Pulse (2001)

SE7EN (1995)

Smile (2022)