When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.
Direction
Haneke's clinical Sadism™ with zero catharsis.
Acting
Watts's suffering feels illegally intimate.
Writing
Fourth wall breaks that indict YOU.
Director
Michael Haneke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Haneke shot this 2008 version shot-for-shot identical to his 1997 Austrian original, just to prove American audiences would swallow the same cruelty.
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