Despite agitating characters, desperately trying but ultimately failing acting "skillz", and those insufferable bunch of pukes, "The Bubblegum Gang", I found this film to be quite entertaining. The idea of the business for pleasure death thing is quite exhilarating. The film has its fair share of bloody gooey violence which should appeal the death-lovers. There are some interesting characters, like the hunchback who is processing human meat into the incinerator. And you get to see naked women. SOMETHING THAT IS NEVER SEEN ANYMORE IN HORROR FILMS!!! I HATE YOU, MORAL STRUCTURE OF INFAMY!!! DIE!!! :)

Personally, I loved this film, but for most people it will pertain to their thoughts as either being a simple, run-in-the-park film that leaves you a little gratified or you will hate this film for its (in your view most likely) empty plot, useless acting and "The Bubblegum Gang", because I certainly did hate "The Bubblegum Gang".

My biggest problem was the characters, pure and simple. You spend the first 45 minutes of the movie stuck with two characters who are so utterly obnoxious that, not only do you lose any sympathy with them, eventually I wound up with a rather grim opinion that what happens to them in the third act deserved to happen to them. When that happens you lose all the horror because you no longer care about the characters and it becomes just an exposition of special effects, like it is some kind of industrial film showing you what the special effects makers can do for you if you wanted to make your own torture porn movie. The special effects are nice, but after 15+ years of watching horror movies you really can't wow me with just that. "Audition" gives you characters you not only sympathize with but care about, and then what happens is all the more terrifying because of the emotional investment.

An utter failure as a film, like all torture porn movies it fails to realize you can't just take the coward's way out and give us crappy characters whom the audience at best is annoyed by and at worst depises. It doesn't matter how much blood and gore you throw at a movie if the characters and by extension the plot is dreadful.