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Topic	Gauntlet Crew Ranks 90s Horror Films - Do you like ranking scary movies?
Snake5555555555 07/05/19 11:56:41 AM #241:	15. Audition Snake - 5 Johnbobb - 9 JONA - 9 KBM - 11 Karo - 13 Genny - 18 Scarlet - 22 Charon - 33 Inviso - 39 Snake - Why I Chose It - One of Japan's most prolific directors, Takashi Miike is well-known for his extreme violence, sexual themes, & extremely dark humor. Audition is representative of this perfectly, and, along with Ring, helped popularize J-horror in the west. A notable director influenced by Audition is Eli Roth, inspiring the "torture porn" genre and directly informing his film, Hostel. My Thoughts - This was the first foreign language horror movie I had ever seen, opening my mind up to some really fucked up movies that come from Japan and other countries. It takes a look at the power struggle between men and women, and works as a devilishly tricky subversion of both masculine dominance and extreme feminism. It's absolutely frightening how Audition and Asami switch tones from an almost delightful rom-com to brutal psychological and bodily horror. Asami's quiet anger and anguished performance is one of the all time best. Her expressions as she uses acupuncture needles and a wire saw on Aoyama is absolutely the stuff of nightmares. Even with all the physical pain and gruesome detail happening on screen, Asami always remains the scariest and focal point of the scene, leaving you reeling at how a person could ever become this damaged. It's a film where the lines of morality are completely blurred, and I love the countless ways you can read into this film. On one hand it's a feminist revenge piece. On the other it's a male perversion power fantasy gone horribly wrong. Asami herself is full of contradictions and hypocrisies; maybe this film is simply what happens to an abused, hurt child who never really got over her pain. Either way, Audition is a one of a kind horror film, a slow-burning exercise that escalates into a scene for the ages. Johnbobb - What a sweet rom-com. I down on his luck widowed man finding love? It's like a Japanese Sleepless in Seattle! But it also has an adorable A24 indie drama quality. Two awkward and unlikely people happen to meet and their connection is immediate. Wait, what's happening? Huh, nevermind, probably nothing. Oh, I'm sure he'll find her, these two are meant to be! Look how devoted he is to her. He-- wait, what? Wh-- what? Wait don't-- wh-- NO-- FUCK NO WHY WHAT IS WHY WHAT NO FUCK JONA - Asamis a great antagonist and I really like how her mysterious aura is slowly taken away as the movie goes on. Once her true colors are shown, the actions she does are just sick and grotesque. Audition is a bit of a slow burn, but its absolutely worth the wait. KBM - Now this is a slow-burn horror thriller. This reminded me of some of my favorite horror movies of the '60s and '70s, which did such a great job of slowly building up the tension and creepy factor to an almost unbearable level before finally letting loose in the final act. I can definitely understand this movie taking a bit too long to get going for some people, but I appreciated the amount of effort put into establishing the characters and the situation, giving this movie a depth that a lot of horror movies don't manage. Even the filmmaking style bears this out in the opening act of the movie we get lots of long takes and flat angles, but as the movie goes on and our hero gets himself further and further into a bad situation, we start getting quick cuts, frenetic handheld camera movement, and some Dutch tilts that highlight his deteriorating mental state. The slow build makes the twisted final act feel all the more earned, with Eihi Shiina's performance pitch-perfect as she plays out her misdirected revenge fantasy. --- Listen, suffering is a fact of life. Either you learn how to deal with that or you go under. https://i.imgtc.ws/2Q88rI4.gif <cite>Snake5555555555 posted [p:924277846] in Gauntlet C... [t:77812973]...</cite> <quote>15. Audition Snake - 5 Johnbobb - 9 JONA - 9 KBM - 11 Karo - 13 Genny - 18 Scarlet - 22 Charon - 33 Inviso - 39 Snake - Why I Chose It - One of Japan's most prolific directors, Takashi Miike is well-known for his extreme violence, sexual themes, & extremely dark humor. Audition is representative of this perfectly, and, along with Ring, helped popularize J-horror in the west. A notable director influenced by Audition is Eli Roth, inspiring the "torture porn" genre and directly informing his film, Hostel. My Thoughts - This was the first foreign language horror movie I had ever seen, opening my mind up to some really fucked up movies that come from Japan and other countries. It takes a look at the power struggle between men and women, and works as a devilishly tricky subversion of both masculine dominance and extreme feminism. It's absolutely frightening how Audition and Asami switch tones from an almost delightful rom-com to brutal psychological and bodily horror. Asami's quiet anger and anguished performance is one of the all time best. Her expressions as she uses acupuncture needles and a wire saw on Aoyama is absolutely the stuff of nightmares. Even with all the physical pain and gruesome detail happening on screen, Asami always remains the scariest and focal point of the scene, leaving you reeling at how a person could ever become this damaged. It's a film where the lines of morality are completely blurred, and I love the countless ways you can read into this film. On one hand it's a feminist revenge piece. On the other it's a male perversion power fantasy gone horribly wrong. Asami herself is full of contradictions and hypocrisies; maybe this film is simply what happens to an abused, hurt child who never really got over her pain. Either way, Audition is a one of a kind horror film, a slow-burning exercise that escalates into a scene for the ages. Johnbobb - What a sweet rom-com. I down on his luck widowed man finding love? It's like a Japanese Sleepless in Seattle! But it also has an adorable A24 indie drama quality. Two awkward and unlikely people happen to meet and their connection is immediate. Wait, what's happening? Huh, nevermind, probably nothing. Oh, I'm sure he'll find her, these two are meant to be! Look how devoted he is to her. He-- wait, what? Wh-- what? Wait don't-- wh-- NO-- FUCK NO WHY WHAT IS WHY WHAT NO FUCK JONA - Asamis a great antagonist and I really like how her mysterious aura is slowly taken away as the movie goes on. Once her true colors are shown, the actions she does are just sick and grotesque. Audition is a bit of a slow burn, but its absolutely worth the wait. KBM - Now this is a slow-burn horror thriller. This reminded me of some of my favorite horror movies of the '60s and '70s, which did such a great job of slowly building up the tension and creepy factor to an almost unbearable level before finally letting loose in the final act. I can definitely understand this movie taking a bit too long to get going for some people, but I appreciated the amount of effort put into establishing the characters and the situation, giving this movie a depth that a lot of horror movies don't manage. Even the filmmaking style bears this out in the opening act of the movie we get lots of long takes and flat angles, but as the movie goes on and our hero gets himself further and further into a bad situation, we start getting quick cuts, frenetic handheld camera movement, and some Dutch tilts that highlight his deteriorating mental state. The slow build makes the twisted final act feel all the more earned, with Eihi Shiina's performance pitch-perfect as she plays out her misdirected revenge fantasy. --- Listen, suffering is a fact of life. Either you learn how to deal with that or you go under. https://i.imgtc.ws/2Q88rI4.gif</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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