10 More Horror Movies With Seriously Messed Up Endings

5. Audition

Audition 1999
Vitagraph Film

For those who've seen Takashi Miike's Audition, you're likely haunted to this day by the chilling events of that 1999 picture.

At the heart of Audition, we have widower Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi). Having struggled to move on with his life following the death of his wife, Shigeharu eventually accepts the advice of his son and filmmaker best friend by putting together an audition process to find him a new partner.

As soon as Shigeharu meets Asami (Eihi Shiina), sparks fly and the pair are head over heels for each other. While a 'happy ever after' seems on the table, that is far from what we got by the time Audition ends.

With the audience let in on glimpses of Asami's troubled upbringing, we see dead bodies amassed, disfigured humans kept as pets, and get treated to the stomach-turning moment of seeing someone eat vomit.

Still, that's not the worst of Audition, for that delight is saved for the film's climax.

Injecting Shigeharu with a paralytic agent that eww-ingly leaves his nerves intact, Asami sticks needles in her lover's eyes and cuts off one of his feet with piano wire - all of which is shown in disturbing, disgusting detail.

Thankfully for Shigeharu, his son Shigehiko turns up and kicks Asami down some stairs, breaking her neck.

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