10 Hardest To Watch Horror Movie Moments
5. Eye, Eye - Audition
Even now, 22 years after it was first released, it's still hard to think about the final act of Takashi Miike's Audition and not feel just a smidge nauseous.
Plot-wise, Audition focusses on Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi), a widow who has struggled to move on with his life since the sad passing of his wife years prior. At the behest of his son and film producer friend, Shigeharu puts together an audition process to find a new wife. It's here that he meets Asami (Eihi Shiina), and the two soon fall head over heels for one another.
And they all lived happily ever after. The end.
Or not.
As film fans are slowly let in on how Asami was abused as a child, that her life story is a lie, with dead or disfigured bodies turning up, and a gross moment of vomit-eating, it's then that we get one of the most twisted sequences in horror history.
Having injected Shigeharu with a paralytic agent that unfortunately still leaves his nerves alive, Asami tortures her beau by sticking needles in and around his eyes before then cutting off his left foot with piano wire. And with Takashi Miike being Takashi Miike, so much of this is shown in graphic, gruesome detail.