Monday, April 26, 2010

Eye Candy #349 - "Audition"

Audition:  One of the most intensely disturbing films I've ever watched. I own it on DVD and can't bring myself to watch it again, it bothered me that much. The story of a older Japanese man looking for a new wife. He sets up a fake audition to meet prospective women, and meets Asami, a shy, retiring thing that is a LOT more than she seems. Disturbing in the way the film "Se7en" was: the evil and horror of 'regular' people who have the propensity for extreme acts of cruelty on other people because their own moral compass is so twisted or absent. This is easily the strongest of the recent Japanese New Wave Horror that I've seen. Beats the pants off "Ringu". I hope that Hollywood doesn't try to remake it.

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