10 Shocking Movie Moments That Made People Leave The Cinema

The film that Rob Zombie is most afraid of couldn't help but rile up cinema audiences.

Audition (Ōdishon) sees Japanese horror director Takashi Miike neck-deep in his typically provocative style, luring audiences into a false sense of security for the first half of the feature with an unlucky in love storyline that could easily be the plot of an early-2000s Matthew McConaughey rom-com.

Most of Audition is tense, though no more repulsive than the average horror, but it is the final sequence that turns it up to eleven. The female antagonist and serial killer Asami (Eihi Shiina) takes her misplaced revenge on protagonist Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi), speaking in a soft, sweet voice while she works on him with ankle screws, piano wire to sever his lower limbs, and needles in the eyes.

The film opened at the Vancouver International Film Festival and then the Rotterdam Festival a few months thereafter, where it received attention, awards and a record number of walkouts, with some patrons even berating Miike on their way out the door.