Is Oldboy horror? If not, what is it?

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Blair Witch scared the bejesus out of me. I loved it.

It also scared my bejesus and I HATED it. See also The Ring. I couldn't sleep for days after seeing it.

I don't really like horror movies like that where the protagonists can't really fight whatever the source of the horror is.

Ringu gave me nightmares, which is very rarified air for a horror movie to be in after three decades of watching just about everything in the genre that hits regular theaters.

I haven't seen Audition though. While I may be pretty hardcore about scary movies, I know my limits and something tells me a movie that freaked Rob Zombie out is going to be beyond them.

The only thing horrifying about Alien 3 was how far the quality dropped off from the first two movies.

I went to Netflix and looked at Event Horizon & Audition but neither intrigued me enough to add to the queue.

Right now I'm watching We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen and it's pretty awesome.

I haven't seen Audition though. While I may be pretty hardcore about scary movies, I know my limits and something tells me a movie that freaked Rob Zombie out is going to be beyond them.

This is exactly what DH said about the movie.

Well now I'm worried that Audition is getting oversold.

It's not like your eyes start spontaneously bleeding.

Has anybody else seen it?

It's a slow build and when the plot finally turns it's super fucking creepy. And not gory, but horrifying.

In a curious parallel with Blair Witch, some of the effect is produced because it's a fairly low budget film with kind of flat lighting. So it seems scarier for that. Like, this is what you stumble across in a bland apartment.

I think it was a VH1 Best of Horror countdown where I saw Rob Zombie saying Audition freaked him out, so I decided not to watch the clip because I had to see the whole movie cold. It was definitely something. Then my sister said "If you liked Audition you'll certainly like Oldboy."

I'm not sure I liked Audition exactly, but I've seen it twice now. I'm not sure I'm ever watching Oldboy again. Except maybe for the hallway scene. Wronger than a wrong thing on Wrongday.

Gleiberman's response does not explain much. I mean when I read:

I tried to assemble this list so that horror meant more than mere sensation — so that it also meant things that could give your heart and your brain the shivers.

I do not go, "Ah, that explains picking Darkman and Shaun of the Dead."

I'm not even getting into bewildering switches in tone.

...No, wait; I am. Because there's

I knew that just by being honest [...] I would inevitably inspire catcalls of outrage, righteous denunciations, and cries for my critical head.

and

Apart from comedy, nothing in movies is quite as subjective as what scares — or bores — us to death.

And a few paragraphs later there's

now we get to the good stuff — the movies you thought should have been on there. In almost every case, my honest response comes down to one word: Really?

and

for the debate about the relative quality of these two movies to have inspired this much hate...well, sorry, folks, but that’s a little scary.

So he knew it would outrage people, but he's surprised that he outraged people. And it's all extremely subjective, but other people's opinions are ridiculous. Dude, pick a point of view and stick with it.

Right now I'm watching We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen and it's pretty awesome.

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In the world of synchronicity, I've been listening to fIREHOSE all afternoon. Mike Watt = shortlist for World's Most Awesome Human Being.

Audition is the Japanese one about the TV exec wanting to remarry? If so, I thought it was maybe more horrifying for men. I was unable to relate to the victims.

But I am like that about the Stupid Factor in horror movies. Blair Witch was just annoying because I could see cars going by in the background.