Will get under your skin and stay there for many days.
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07/23/07
Audition (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 59
Fresh: 45
Rotten:14
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Consensus: An audacious, unsettling Japanese horror film from director Takashi Miike, Audition entertains as both a grisly shocker and a psychological drama.
Theatrical Release: Aug 8, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: AUDITION is an art-house cult horror film that will be talked about for a long time to come. Ryo Ishibashi stars as Aoyama, a single father who has not dated since his wife died seven years earlier. To help find another woman to bring joy into... [More]
Starring: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Jun Kunimura, Miyuki Matsuda
Director: Takashi Miike
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06/24/06
(The) disturbed and disturbing psycho-horror nightmare begins as a gentle romance based on a lie and then shoots into the Twilight Zone of obsession, sadism, and mutilation.
12/14/05
A lentidão dos dois primeiros atos e o pseudo-surrealismo do terceiro, além de não combinarem, criam uma experiência enfadonha, confusa e apelativa.
10/05/04
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06/13/04
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05/15/04
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02/01/04
This film is skillfully made, expertly directed, well acted, and pretty distasteful to me.
07/07/03
Takashi Miike has a style that definitely sets this one apart from the all of the American "stalker chick" films.
03/19/03
The grisly finale will undoubtedly linger in the memory but in the end, it just comes off as a case of too much, too late.
02/13/03
For those who can stomach its gory denouement, it's a disturbing cinematic experience that they won't soon forget.
02/08/03
The Audition DVD includes a director's audio commentary for the final half-hour. You may as well turn the commentary on—you'll be clamping your eyes shut for most of it anyway.
01/19/03
By the end I found myself feeling so creeped out it was Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer all over again.
12/08/02
It takes sexual tensions to a dreamlike extreme and has a Grand Guignol ending that should be upsetting to the faint of heart...
11/11/02
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10/21/02
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