I think Artuad might be very useful when it comes to
some of the recent japanese horror films. Audition
certainly seems to have the cinema of cruelty written
all over it. I think the helplessness and
vulnerability of the viewer comes out very strongly in
that film as indeed it does in Irreversible. In both
these films the viewer becomes culpable. I think the
others doesn't overload the senses in anyway. I think
this is a minimalist ghost story and not necessarily
the same as horror.
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