CASTING CALL: one horror fan 🥵! We’re continuing our Valentine’s theme with the 1999 thriller ‘Audition’, directed by Takashi Miike. 💉👁️💉

In this episode, we delve into the objectification of women, discuss the delicate performance of gender, analyse the chasm between men and women’s emotional experiences and how, in this film, the phenomenon of physical pain somehow bridges this gap.

*CONTENT WARNING*

Violence, death, murder, discussions of misogyny, objectification, torture, body mutilation, rape, sexual violence, childhood abuse and paedophilia