Episode 65 - Audition
Pod Mortem: A Horror Podcast
Reneé Hunter Vasquez, John Paul Vasquez, Travis Hunter-Sayapin
4.7 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 142 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm Salutations. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm Travis Hunter, |
| 0:31.6 | joined as always by my co-host, my sister, and my brother-in-law. |
| 0:34.6 | Hi, I'm Renee Hunter Vasquez. |
| 0:36.1 | Hi, I'm John Paul Vasquez. |
| 0:38.4 | This week, |
| 0:45.3 | we're broadcasting live from the Stonefish Bar discussing the 1999 J-horror film Audition. This film was directed by Takashi Miquet off a script from Daiske-Tingan based on the novel of the same name by Ryu Murakami. |
| 0:51.6 | Combining elements of drama, romance, and extremely unsettling horror, |
| 0:55.7 | auditioned shocked and satisfied global audiences upon its release, garnering numerous festival |
| 1:00.3 | awards and accolades. Its influence can be felt in various horror films in the years since its |
| 1:05.0 | release, and it is now widely regarded as a modern horror classic. This film was suggested to us |
| 1:10.4 | by Friends of the Show, Christina Rice, and Kristen Lofton. This film was suggested to us by friends of the show, Christina |
| 1:11.7 | Rice and Kristen Lofton. This film was also the winner of our June Patreon poll, so thank you to |
| 1:16.5 | all of our patrons who participated and voted. If you'd like to help us decide an episode, |
| 1:20.9 | join us over on Patreon at patreon.com slash the podmortem. So, audition. What were your first impressions on the film? |
| 1:29.2 | Big surprise, but I don't remember the first time I watched it. |
| 1:33.0 | I do know that I've seen it several, several times, though. |
| 1:37.4 | And it became one of those movies where if I had a friend, I'd be like, you got to |
| 1:42.9 | fucking, I need to know how you feel about this. |
| 1:45.5 | It was like a, what, like a litmus test film for me. |
| 1:49.2 | Yeah, but I loved it since the first time I watched it. |
| 1:51.9 | And I feel like seeing it now, like in the lens of reviewing it or whatever, it's kind |
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