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.
| Tagline | You must admit, you brought this on yourself. |
| Release Date: | Mar 14, 2008 |
| Genres: | Thriller, Horror |
| Production Company: | Celluloid Dreams, Halcyon Pictures, Tartan Films, X Filme International, Lucky Red, Belladonna Productions, Kinematograf |
| Production Countries: | United States of America, Austria, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy |
| Casts: | Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart, Boyd Gaines, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Robert LuPone, Susi Haneke, Linda Moran |
| Status: | Released |
| Budget: | $15000000 |
| Revenue: | 7938872 |
This is a movie I can't help but really despise. Especially egregious is the pretentious way in which the filmmaker takes a position of haughty moral indignation and attempts to guilt-trip his own audience for wanting to watch a horror film in the first place. We know what he wanted to achieve with this movie, because he has told us explicitly; and he thought so highly of his achievement that he decided to make the film twice, shot-for-shot. Every scene is deliberately calculated to be as awkward to watch and as boring as possible, since anti-suspense is part of the "point". It is essentially the writer/director giving a middle finger to anyone willing to sit through this finger-wagging tripe.
