Most disturbing movie since Audition.

I'm a die hard horror fan and I'll watch everything, indies to studio flicks. From Cannibal Holocaust to Scream and everything in between, I've seen it all (or a whole lot of it, anyway) and it is very, very rare for a movie to get to me.

This is the first time since I first saw Miike's "Audition," almost ten years ago, that a movie truly got to me like this one did.
It was just damn disturbing, especially since people I know are starting to have kids.

There is just so much tension in the first half of the movie, and in the second, I just honestly did not know how far it would go. This movie truly creates an inescapable situation and then unrelentingly forces the audience to watch as the characters descend deeper and deeper into hell and it does it so well that I am just plain amazed, and horrified, by the end result.

I'm not surprised there's so much violence in this country. I'm surprised there's so little.

Really? I thought this was boring and that it didn't go far enough, this was nothing like Audition that was a master piece. I think that the handycam idea really hurt the over all feeling also I felt that the characters should have been flushed out more or given more time to grow. I didn't feel for the parents at all it just seemed as though they brushed off all the signs that there was something wrong with the children. I just thought they were stupid, the storyline was good but I think it wasn't executed as well as it could have been.

you bow to me now you blow me.

Excellent remarks!
I too am a huge fan of audition and this flick terrified me! There are countless movies, both foreign and horror, that push the envelope with graphic violence, but imo that is forgettable at best, and at worst, in poorer efforts, beçomes humorous and campy as decades pass. But this required intution, disclipline and brilliance. Its the same reasons why audition was better than miike's other movies, less was shown, horrors way deeper than flesh and blood were implied.
I've seen the whole gamut when it comes to indie, horror and foreign flicks too, and this was utterly horrifying and genuinly disturbing!

"Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory." -- Tennessee Williams

I have to agree with dfkafka. Considering the hype I heard about this movie, I was expecting a much better effort. The parents came off as just plain dumb with no sense of how to even discipline a child much less recognize the warning signs of serious mental illness. And considering the mother was supposedly a child psychologist, this made no sense at all.

At less than 80 minutes, the film definitely could have used another ten minutes to better develop the parents' characters and give some sort of explanation as to why things were allowed to get so bad before any action is taken (though I could think of no reason other than parental ineptitude). Even after the childrens' troubles are made evident and the children are (ridiculously) left with the parents "against their wishes" after attempted murder, these two buffoons leave the children free to roam the night and then apparently fall asleep so soundly that the children are able to tie them up while they sleep (though how the children manage this is conveniently skipped over and not shown).

Miike's Audition is indeed a masterpiece. This is a piece of another kind.

DITTO.

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