Audition (1999)

For much of its running time, Audition doesn't even feel like a horror film. It starts almost like a gentle romantic comedy with a middle-aged widower named Aoyama (Tetsu Sawaki) goaded into agreeing with a film producer pal's scheme to find him a new wife by holding fake movie auditions. As things develop, their plan seems more and more dodgy but nothing can prepare them for the final outcome. Delicate ex-ballerina Asami (Eihi Shiina) seems the most likely candidate for Aoyama, but her references don't check out, and the audience is tipped off early by seeing her home life: alone in an empty

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1999, Horror, Thriller,

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Celluloid Nightmares (1999)

A female reporter researching underground sex films stumbles across a snuff film, and her further investigation causes the film makers to take action against her.MU ZAN E is an extremely rough Japanese gore/sexual violence film by anyone's standards. Anyone who doesn't find some of the scenes in this film disgusting is inhuman. That being said, since that is exactly what I was looking for - I wasn't disappointed.I will give a brief synopsis, and this is what I gathered, since my copy has no English subtitles or dubs: A reporter is doing some research on underground sex films. She does intervi

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1999, Adult, Gore, Japan,

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