 SPOILER WARNING: If you haven’t seen Audition, stop reading and rent it. Like, right now. We’ll still be here when it’s over.
Halloween and horror have always gone together, and it took some time to choose the scary movie to spotlight here. Should I write up an old standby, I wondered, or something more modern? But in the end, there was only one logical choice — Takashi Miike’s Audition, made in 1999 but already a horror classic. I first heard about Audition in 2001, during its American release. A certain amount of hype had risen around the film. I was skeptical — genre fans are prone to hyperbole, praising every buzzed-about title like it’s one for the ages. But in the words of Joaquin Phoenix, "the nerds were right," and Audition has become one of my Halloween traditions.
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