10 Horror Movie Reveals NOBODY Was Ready For

Wedged between the video nasty era and the modern horror revival, when Asian horror had a reputation unlike any other worldwide, Takashi Miike's Audition earned a special notoriety, heralded alongside the likes of The Ring as being uniquely scary and messed up. However, while The Ring has had diminishing returns for modern viewers, Audition has held onto its status - for shock factor alone.

In the film, we follow middle-aged widower Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) who looks for love in all the wrong places. He enlists his film producer bud to help him stage fake auditions and locate a new girlfriend. When Asami Yamazaki (Eihi Shiina) enters the picture, she seems the perfect gal, but her strange behaviour on their dates, quietly psychotic personality and shady private life prove her to be anything but - and Shigeharu risks something far worse than being alone. 

Asami lives in an apartment with just a large sack and telephone for company and, no matter the violence she unleashes in Audition's final act, this is the source of the film's greatest shock. It's surprisingly late on that we discover what’s in the sack, but it doesn’t disappoint. Turns out, Asami has been keeping a multiple amputee in there, missing both feet, his tongue, an ear and three fingers. To make this reveal even worse, when she lets him out the bag, he immediately begs for food, which she provides - by puking into his dog bowl.