Audition

The film is a brutal examination of social isolation and malaise, and the gulf that often exists between men and women.

A stomach-turning masterpiece.

This movie, at just under two hours, is a long crawl from inception to climax.

Miike is brilliant at transforming the mundane and familiar ... into something sinister and eerie.

A diabolically adroit piece of filmmaking that goes even further than the films of Italy's excruciatingly macabre Dario Argento.

It gnaws on your mind like a famished larva, and you can fully expect to have a rough time of it later, when you close your eyes and try to sleep.

Audition is a slow burner of a horror, an almost perfect example of a frog in boiling water.

A film I’ve seen once and I’m not sure I’ll ever see again because it’s so effectively disturbing, which is exactly what you want with a horror film. I’ve never looked at piano wire the same way again.

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.

It has lost none of its power to disturb.