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Director Michael Haneke (CACHE) remakes his own 1997 feature, this time casting Naomi Watts, Brady Corbet, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, and Devon Gearhart. Following the original's premise, the thriller explores the chaos surrounding a family hostage situation. Read more

Starring	Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet
Director	Michael Haneke
Genres	Horror, Thriller

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Funny Games
- 28 Mar 2008
An exercise in control, manipulation and frustration, this post-modern suspense thriller is brilliant, aggravating, and utterly redundant. Ann, George and little Georgie (Naomi Watts, Tim Roth and Devon Gearhart) drive to their summer home, a big, roomy spread with its own dock on the lake. They seem like a nice family. There is nothing to suggest they deserve the nightmare that will shortly descend on them. The first sign that something is amiss comes when they wave hello to their neighbours... Read more
The Trouble with Haneke
- 09 Nov 2009
Talking about Psycho, which celebrates its 50 anniversary next year, Alfred Hitchcock remarked how he was engaged in “the game with the audience”: “I was directing the viewers. You might say I was playing them, like an organ.” A funny kind of game, you might think. Perhaps it’s a stretch to link the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke to Hitchcock. He’s a virtuoso, no doubt, but he’s an art-house fixture, and not just because his movies are subtitled.... Read more
The Strangers
- 22 Aug 2008
It’s not like we haven’t been here before, but Bryan Bertino’s The Strangers is a five-finger exercise in stoking terror executed with the utmost deliberation and efficiency. Nothing more, and nothing less. Bertino is a thirty-year-old Texan who persuaded Universal to let him direct when they bought his screenplay (originally titled “The Faces”). As a writer, he gets nothing for originality, but I don’t think he would claim any either. But as a filmmaker,... Read more

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  In 1997, writer-director Michael Haneke (HIDDEN) made the controversial Austrian thriller, FUNNY GAMES, about two young men who terrorize a family on holiday. A decade later, Haneke was convinced by producer Chris Coen to bring the story to America, filming a nearly word-for-word, shot-for-shot ...

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  Director Michael Haneke (CACHE) remakes his own 1997 feature, this time casting Naomi Watts, Brady Corbet, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, and Devon Gearhart. Following the original's premise, the thriller explores the chaos surrounding a family hostage situation....