Audition plays out like a comfy companion piece to Shall We Dance? before evolving into a torturous freakshow not unlike Baise-moi.

A demonic femme fatale, who tortures her male would-be oppressor, made Takashi Miike’s vengeance tale the horrifying launchpad for an entire genre

The film is a brutal examination of social isolation and malaise, and the gulf that often exists between men and women.

The war of the sexes as a horror film