In 1999, riding the wave of interest in Korean horror movies, Takashi Miike’s Audition hit our cinemas and subsequently appeared on every ‘Best Horror Films of All Time’ list with remarkable regularity. The source material for the film was written by Ryu Murakami in 1997 and its horror is of a much more insidious kind.…
Read more No 469 Audition by Ryu Murakami, translated by Ralph McCarthy
I know that this is a book blog and therefore always about books, but when I saw that this week the Top Ten Tuesday from The Broke and The Bookish was Top Ten Books/Movies To Read Or Watch To Get In The Halloween Spirit, I jumped at the chance to talk about movies for a…
Read more Top Ten Tuesday – Time to get scared……
Between the man who was coolly deciding to cut his victim’s Achilles tendons and wondering what it would sound like, and the man who’d smiled at his wife that very morning in a room saturated with the fragrance of freshly baked bread, there was clearly a gap. Exactly what the gap consisted of he couldn’t…
Read more No 735 Piercing by Ryu Murakami