Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Steineded How sad is this?

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

leonidas03031979 A family is having a few days off at their cabin near the lake. Two mentally disturbed youngsters invade in their house in order to torture and kill them. Unique... The director is using some tricks in order to make the film less boring. For example the killer is looking at the camera and talks to the audience. Charming... Then, totally unnecessarily, he deliberately delays some scenes. Or maybe not so unnecessarily. The film would be too short without all those tormenting (but only for the viewer) minutes where we have to watch every single moment of the victims crawling or the view of the house at the night for 15 seconds with no reason. And...that's all folks...I mean it...THAT was all... Honestly no difference to any other splatter-horror film ever created except maybe from the hopeless and apparently unsuccessful endeavor of its director to make a difference...

Malcolm Parker Having seen several of Haneke's films, I didn't realise that this was a bit of an odd one out. Film is always about the relationship between what a filmmaker is attempting to portray and the films audience. But different people watch different films for different reasons and in some respects, with this film it feels as though Haneke is just being patronising to people who've seen some of his other films. Had it been included as one of the "Saw" series, I think I'd have probably rated it higher. Obviously I didn't know where this film was going at the outset, but anyone who's watched some of Haneke's other films, has to recognise that they are rather more ambitious than mere torture-porn. So why take time to belittle your own audience with a film that asks the question "Why are you watching this film?". The film works well in exploring and presenting that concept,and is beautifully acted, lighted and shot, but the narrative is all rather showboating for anyone who is watching this film for its critical value. My experience is that the only people who act outside social norms as depicted in this film are either very small children or near-fictional creations of the media used to frame their own agenda. As a viewer of this particular package, I was hoping for something more ambitious from Haneke than a sort of childish game.

tankace Many persons want to go in to the film industry but they usually hit the wall of big studios and the need of funds. And the independent films is a way for them to cut their teeth in and if the director, acting crew and writing team use what they have in the best way then you can get something like the now famous examples of Evil Dead(1981) , Reservoir Dogs(1992) ,Mad Max(1977), Memento (2000), The Terminator (1984) and many more and this film is also in to this category.The experienced TV director Micheal Haneke tried for the first time to direct of feature film and using his limited resources he made this small but very well paced, chilling film. In short he used his experienced working on a TV set which lacks usually space in to make feel the stress, fear and shock about this home invasion. Another great part of the film are the antagonists especially Arno Frisch due to his attitude and intelligence that makes him both intimidating dispute his slender physic and the plump body of his friend.Over all it is a very good independent film and I recommended to very film buff.

HotlineSF If seeing bad things happening to good people in a movie makes you squeamish, you should stay away from this one. It's a bit like the torture porn Saw films except the abuse is mostly psychological and you actually care for the characters.A pair of psychotic youngsters hold a family hostage in their vacation home and force them to play sadistic games. It's a harrowing 108 minutes, and at some point I'm sure many viewers will ask "what's the point of all this?", but for some reason I found this movie strangely compelling. The suspense is palatable, and the banter between the two deranged captors is somehow perversely fascinating. It was like watching a train wreck in slow motion - I couldn't take my eyes off it.As the anguish endured by this poor family worsens, and we become more and more invested in their survival, it begins to feel like the director himself is playing his own twisted game with us; as if he's fully aware of the torture he's putting this family (and us) through, and he's stringing us along and testing our limits.