18 Insanely Messed Up Movies You Might Not Be Able To Handle

This notorious horror film caused a record number of walkouts when first shown, but for much of the run-time the film doesn't actually live up to its reputation.

Audition (directed by Takashi Miike, again) starts out as a very well-written romantic drama about a widower trying to find a new wife before eventually morphing into the stuff of nightmares as it turns out the woman protagonist Aoyama is in love with, Asami, is actually a sadistic serial killer of men who cannot cope with him loving anyone else, even his own son.

It's like flicking a switch. In the second half Audition transforms, just like that, from a touching, gently witty romance into one of the most unsettling, dread-filled horror films you'll ever watch as Asami's nightmarish crimes are discovered. Asami is shown beheading a man and mutilating another who she imprisons in a sack and feeds him her own vomit... which he hungrily consumes. That scene will definitely linger.

Still, like most good horror films Audition saves the nastiest shock for last. It concludes with an excruciating ten-minute torture scene that is less gory than, say, the Saw or Hostel films, but is far more disturbing due to the emphasis on pain.

Audition is a brilliant movie and one of Japan's finest horror films ever, but you'll never watch it again and the high level of walkouts was entirely understandable.