is as disturbing now as it was then. Haneke has just finished an English-language version of the film with Naomi Watts, Tim Roth and Michael Pitt. Haneke show us a well-off family arriving at their holiday house.
Two courteous young men drop by: they are soon revealed to be interlopers with a sadistic, detached and horrifying plan for the fate of the family. The film's violence is suggested more often than it is depicted, but its effect is no less distressing. Haneke draws on familiar elements from well-known horror and thriller scenarios, but to very different ends.
It's a critique of the depiction of violence that never lets the viewer off the hook, playing on spectator expectations. is as disturbing now as it was then.
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