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An audacious, unsettling Japanese horror film from director Takashi Miike, Audition entertains as both a grisly shocker and a psychological drama. Read Critics Reviews
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- Ryo Ishibashi
- Takashi Miike
- Horror
Art-house horror flicks are not a very common genre (few come to mind except 'Don't Look Now') but Takashi Miike's film 'Audition' is a welcome addition to the canon. Beautifully shot and orchestrated, it is both a subtle personal drama and one of the most genuinely horrifying things I have seen.
What begins as a gentle romance based on a lie turns into a disturbed and disturbing psycho-horror nightmare that rockets into the Twilight Zone of obsession, sadism, and mutilation. Full Review...
A truly shocking horror film about obsession gone evil, “Audition” is made even more disturbing by its haunting beauty. Lyrically paced pic may lose some ghost fans because of its deliberate ...
Audition may be chilling and gruesome, but it's also smart and important, a psychosexual thriller that captures female anger well before it became the rage. Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague.
- Eihi Shiina
- Takashi Miike
Mar 20, 2001 · Audition, the novel, started life as author Ryu Murakami's reaction to a failed love affair, a love letter of sorts to an ex-lover. Miike's approach to adapting the novel to film was to imagine what that woman's reply would be.
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Aug 8, 2001 · User Reviews. Takashi Miike's 1999 film, Audition, is a perplexing, enthralling masterpiece that deserves remembering as one of the best horror films out there, despite mostly not being all that scary.