It’s the film that so disturbed one film critic that he suggested the Metropolitan Police should investigate its production. A legendary director also reportedly watched half of it before throwing the DVD out of his window because it was so “frightful”. 

But to its fans, this is an astonishingly powerful psychological horror which has been credited with sparking an entire genre which became popular around the world in the 2000s. 

The film is The Audition, a Japanese film about a lonely…