This week, Drusilla and Josh watch the punishing Michael Hanake film, Funny Games (Austrian version.) From wiki: “Funny Games is a 1997 Austrian psychological horror-thriller film written and directed by Michael Haneke, and starring Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, and Arno Frisch. The plot involves two young men who hold a family hostage in their vacation home and torture them with sadistic games. The film was entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.[3] A shot-for-shot remake, filmed and set in the United States, was released in 2007, also directed by Haneke, this time with an English-speaking cast and a mostly American crew.”

Also discussed: intrusive thoughts, diner waitresses in horror movies, Drusilla’s The Grifters cover for Criterion, Point Blank, The Split (1968), Threads (1984), 

NEXT WEEK: The Halloween Special! A highbrow/low brow double feature of Bones and All (2022) and Nothing But Trouble (1991), When the Wind Blows, moralism, Sleepaway Camp, misogyny in horror, Brian De Palma, JAFAs, GLOW, Speak No Evil, and more!

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