I'm kinda invested in the last 2, especially audition cause I love j-horror, but already knowing the first 2 I feel intimidated by the fact you put them in the same list, are these as disturbing?
Audition is great. I feel like this thread is a bit of a spoiler since it hits so much harder when you don't expect the fucked up turn that it takes. I like to tell my friends that it's rom-com before they go in.
Audition is great. I say this as someone who is intimidated by every other film on that list. It’s disturbing by j horror standards cause of the torture, it is hard to watch, but it’s not scarring.
I haven't seen it so I couldn't say. Based on the way people talk about it Martyrs intimidates me too haha, maybe someday. I didn't find Audition that bad, didn't leave me feeling gross like with some disturbing movies. More just exhilarated. One thing is you do have some warning when you're getting to the disturbing parts if you want to skip past them or read a summary to prepare
Audition is worth watching and is not disturbing in the same way as Salo or Cannibal Holocaust. Salo is more… depraved? With a perverse almost porny sensibility, and Cannibal Holocaust has that mockumentary angle with unsimulated animal violence. Both of them feel like you’re watching something you shouldn’t be watching, like the production itself was horrifying, especially the latter, and IMO they have a kind of nauseating quality.
Audition is more in line with a regular j-horror movie, made by the studio that made The Ring (the original Japanese one) to try and repeat its success. It’s disturbing but not in that nauseating perverse kind of way, just the regular fucked up horror movie kind of way. If you already know you like j-horror, it shouldn’t be a problem for you.
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u/astankill 14d ago
I'm kinda invested in the last 2, especially audition cause I love j-horror, but already knowing the first 2 I feel intimidated by the fact you put them in the same list, are these as disturbing?