MasterChugs Theater: ‘Audition’

We all love a good old-fashioned traditional romance tale, don’t we? You know the kind of thing I mean … boy meets girl, boy dates girl, boy discovers girl’s shady secrets, girl turns into psychotic S & M torturer … sniff. It brings tears to your eyes, doesn’t it?

Well, the last half-hour of Audition will certainly bring tears to your eyes. My mom always said you should watch out for the quiet ones. Welcome to what is perhaps the least extreme of Takashi Miike’s films and the one that truly cemented his reputation outside Japan as being one of the most extreme directors in the world, Audition; a film with such a horrifying final half-hour that it holds the dubious honor of having had the most audience walk-outs of all time during its premiere.

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George Bush doesn’t like black magic

After months of hiding their faces, witchdoctors (whom this blog has declared war against) are back. Recently, a voodoo practitioner in Indonesia has put a hex on President George Bush.

Key quote: “Ki Gendeng Pamungkas slit the throat of a goat, a small snake and stabbed a black crow in the chest, stirred their blood with spice and broccoli before drank the ‘potion’ and smeared some on his face.”

Mmmmm.