Review: The Audition (2026)
By William Pattison
This time I have a low budget Canadian remake
Of a notorious Korean film. Oh boy!!!
In the wake of his wife's death, widowed filmmaker Noah
becomes consumed by grief. With the subtle influence of his friend Darius, Noah
meets Miya, a young woman who unknowingly becomes the focus of his obsession.
As Noah's fixation deepens, what begins as a quiet connection spirals into a
nightmarish descent of manipulation and terror. The Audition is a gripping
horror tale of obsession, grief, and the chilling consequences of unchecked
desire.
This film is a remake of the iconic Korean torture film
Audition. This film goes by the plot of the Korean film exactly. Infact many of
the shots in this film are fram by frame duplicates. The only real issue with
this film is for a remake this film is horribly lacking teeth. When the film is
supposed to get brutal and nasty there is nothing. All the torture scares are
done with extreme reaction shots of the actor’s faces with some amusingly bad
sound fx. Yep, that is right! No penintration seen. No pins in flesh. Nothing.
And the leading man”s pained screams sound fake as shit. It was very Canadian.
It was made for wimpy Canadian sensitivities. Shit, they blew…or I should say
failed to blow the notorious blowjob scene.
Emma Trans fails to even come close to the performance of
the original frail little Korean lady that tortured the shit out of her leading
man in Audition. This poser didn’t even break a sweat in comparison. She was
wimpy as shit. The leather dress was an insult to the original on her.
Also Joseph Finfer was lack luster as torture victim Noah.
The Korean guy in the original wasn’t a great actor, but at least he played the
part with a heart beat. In fact, besides the shadowladen creepy ballet teacher the only good performance was by
Michael Mazza who played Noah’associate Darius Sims.
All in all this film was a weak, spineless, remake of a
brutal disturbing film. If you want to see a good film go out and find a copy
of Audition and be ready to cringe and be disturbed. Leave this Canadian bacon
toothless failure where it belongs, in the nearest trashben…
