Probably the best bait-and-switch horror film since Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'
What begins as a stately and formal art film that appears to be about a budding romance descends into a nightmare of gory revenge that rivals the shock value of any George A. Romero bloodbath. Only it's worse. Far worse. Closer in spirit to the true creepiness of Tod Browning. Forget comparisons to David Lynch. With 'Audition,' the audience can actually interpret the events and follow the logic of a nightmare.
I start to giggle, thinking of the art house crowd who stumbled into this movie by accident. The horror, the horror.
Hmmm. Maybe I'll invite some unsuspecting cineastes over for wine and cheese and a big screen viewing of the DVD. I won't be able to take my eyes off the 'audience' as they slowly realize, like the hapless male star of this movie, what this movie is really about.
Who knew a piano wire could work like a bone saw?
What begins as a stately and formal art film that appears to be about a budding romance descends into a nightmare of gory revenge that rivals the shock value of any George A. Romero bloodbath. Only it's worse. Far worse. Closer in spirit to the true creepiness of Tod Browning. Forget comparisons to David Lynch. With 'Audition,' the audience can actually interpret the events and follow the logic of a nightmare.
I start to giggle, thinking of the art house crowd who stumbled into this movie by accident. The horror, the horror.
Hmmm. Maybe I'll invite some unsuspecting cineastes over for wine and cheese and a big screen viewing of the DVD. I won't be able to take my eyes off the 'audience' as they slowly realize, like the hapless male star of this movie, what this movie is really about.
Who knew a piano wire could work like a bone saw?