Films like Audition (Miike) — re-pass.

Audition (Miike) — re-pass (1999) reads as Heavy, measured, extreme horror / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Audition (1999) poster
1. Audition1999

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Trouble Every Day (2001) poster
2. Trouble Every Day2001

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Dogville (2003) poster
3. Dogville2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Cure (1997) (1997) poster
4. Cure1997

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Isle (2000) (2000) poster
5. The Isle2000

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Living and the Dead (2006) poster
6. The Living and the Dead2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Malina (1991) poster
7. Malina1991

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dead Ringers (1988) poster
8. Dead Ringers1988

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Kill List —repeat guard2011
9. Kill List — repeat guard2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

I Come with the Rain (2009) poster
10. I Come with the Rain2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Calvaire (2005) poster
11. Calvaire2005

Keeps the pitch-dark outlook and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Bug (2007) poster
12. Bug2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Audition (Miike) — re-pass’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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