"Audition" has been described as an influence on "torture porn". The term was invented by David Edelstein to describe films such as "Saw", "The Devil's Rejects" and "Wolf Creek" that offer "titillating and shocking" scenes that push the audience to the margins of depravity for them to "feel something". "Audition" influenced American directors such as Eli Roth. Roth stated that "Audition" influenced him to make his film "Hostel", with Miike even making a cameo as a satisfied customer of the kidnappers who let customers torture their victims. Richard Corliss, writing in "Time", opined that "Audition" was different from torture porn films as: "unlike "Saw" and its imitators in the genre of torture porn, "Audition" doesn't go for gore-ific money shots. Miike's films live inside their characters, taking the temperature of their longings, the ridiculous ambitions they chase so obsessively and their need to experience the extreme to prove they're alive". "Audition" was listed by twin directors Jen and Sylvia Soska as one of their favourite horror films, and with the sisters saying that it was an influence on their film "American Mary". The directors noted the character of Asami, stating that an audience generally sees: "female characters in a horror film as the helpless victim. This film leads you in one direction, skillfully hinting at a darker storyline for the otherwise meek and slight Asami until the final 15 minutes where we are introduced to a merciless monster. A perfect personification of the irrational rage of a woman scorned". Director Quentin Tarantino included "Audition" in his list of top 20 films released since 1992 (the year he became a director). "Audition" was among the films included in the book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die".