Funny Games R-Rated Trailer Hits New clip from Michael Haneke’s latest
Assuaging any worries that he may have been forced to tone down the darkness for his Hollywood debut, a new R-rated trailer for director Michael Haneke’s Funny Games has hit the interweb.
A remake of Haneke’s 1997 foreign-language original, Funny Games features Naomi Watts, Tim Roth and young Devon Gearhart as a vacationing family who to their surprise are trussed up and mentally tortured by Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet’s screwed-up thrill-killers – you know, for kicks.
The trailer is undoubtedly spoilerific (you can see a major character getting offed), but the clip demonstrates a twisted streak that bodes well for the final cut.
To check it out click here - You’ll have to enter some proof-of-age disclaimer stuff.
L: Acho
...spoilerific much?! ing, that happened to that guyd not know that would happen! One might have assumed that something like that would happen to at least one character at some stage, but one might not have been certain until one had seen the film.
It's probably just one's karmic punishment for referring to oneself in the third person! And also having never seen the Haneke original.
This trailer and the first seem suitably creepy, although very Clockwork Orange-y, however lazy... Read More
Hmm. A film being remade by the person that made it in the first place. The original's pretty horrible, if I remember. Lots of crying and pain and anguish. I always meant to seek out more of his films, but never got round to it, except for Tesis, which was part of the same double bill.
Who's idea was this, anyway? Haneke's or the studios?
The trailer feels like I remember the original being. Odd thing to do though. ... Read More
What's the point in remaking this? It looks identical to the original in a Gun Van Sant's Psycho way. Haneke must be really proud of himself to make it again in English. Not sure why, I found it petulant and boring. ... Read More
...spoilerific much?! That thing, that happened to that guy - I did not know that would happen! One might have assumed that something like that would happen to at least one character at some stage, but one might not have been certain until one had seen the film.
It's probably just one's karmic punishment for referring to oneself in the third person! And also having never seen the Haneke original.
This trailer and the first seem suitably creepy, although very Clockwork Orange-y, however lazy t... Read More
