Reviews

This is the kind of movie I cannot forget. Well, to be honest, the reason why I watched it was to see my girlfriend, who suggested to watch it at her's. I wasn't really impressed by the movie and I thought it'd be another of those I'd forget about. And I wouldn't comment on it if there wouldn't be something special to it. I just keep thinking about it again and again, and I get the feeling it wasn't so boring as I thought. That's exactly what I find interesting. There are movies which you think are bad, and forget about them. There are movies where you see they are great and you never forget them. And there are movies which you think they haven't impressed you at all, but after some time you still think about them and you keep remembering them whether you like it or not. And eventually you find that they were quite good just the way they was. And so is this movie. What it wants to tell you is not the story it tells - a story which you may find uninteresting, longish, alien, of no matter to you. This film wants to give you an impression of the Gypsy way of life. And after seeing it and thinking about it, you feel like understanding the Gypsies somewhat more.

I am very disappointed. I looked for this movie because it is said to be one of the most terrifying horrors. Now I've seen it and can tell to all those who are looking forward to be scared by this movie, that they'll be probably as disappointed as I am. The whole movie is quite normal, all the "terror" concentrates on the last 15 minutes or so where some obscene and sadistic scenes are shown, well but nothing that horrible to make the film worth watching. I think this might be a general problem for Europeans or Americans with Japanese horrors. If you watched the original Japanese horror "Ring" and you were disappointed, don't even think about watching Audition. It's but killing time.

What I liked, was that there was only one little shocking scene. Not more. I dislike shocking scenes. I think good horrors don't need much of them.