In this English-language remake of a deconstruction in the way violence is portrayed in the media, a family settles into its vacation home, which happens to be the next stop for a pair of young, articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood.Written by
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This is the second time that Michael Pitt has played a character inspired by the real life murder committed by Leopold and Loeb in 1924, the other role was the character Justin Pendleton in 'Murder By Numbers.' See more »
Goofs
When Paul "rewinds" the film he presses the Volume Down (-) button on the remote control rather than the Rewind button. See more »
Quotes
Paul:
You must admit, you brought this on yourself.
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CARE SELVE, OMBRE BEATE
from "Atalanta"
Written by George Frideric Handel (as G. F. Händel)
Performed by Beniamino Gigli
(P: 1950 EMI Records Ltd
digital remastering (P: 1999 EMI Records
Courtesy of EMI Music France See more »
I saw this movie yesterday and on the whole really liked it. Whew ... I don't know when last I've been to a horror movie / psychodrama that was so relentlessly scary ... in a lean, bleak, psychologically devastating way.
I thought the acting and scripting and directing and editing were all really excellent throughout. Everything but everything in this movie works together to draw you into an utterly horrifying experience.
What really captivated me was this understated but relentless tension that just grips and chokes and overwhelms from beginning to end.
This is the kind of movie that really, really makes you *feel* like you're there, going through what this unfortunate family went through.
If you haven't seen it yet and like good, chilling, judiciously bloody psychodrama, hey, check this movie out ... it's really scary psychodrama at its very best.
Charles Delacroix
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I saw this movie yesterday and on the whole really liked it. Whew ... I don't know when last I've been to a horror movie / psychodrama that was so relentlessly scary ... in a lean, bleak, psychologically devastating way.
I thought the acting and scripting and directing and editing were all really excellent throughout. Everything but everything in this movie works together to draw you into an utterly horrifying experience.
What really captivated me was this understated but relentless tension that just grips and chokes and overwhelms from beginning to end.
This is the kind of movie that really, really makes you *feel* like you're there, going through what this unfortunate family went through.
If you haven't seen it yet and like good, chilling, judiciously bloody psychodrama, hey, check this movie out ... it's really scary psychodrama at its very best.
Charles Delacroix