When their sailing holiday is interrupted by the sole survivor of a sinking schooner the high seas turn to terror for a husband and wife. His story of sickness and death is really of madness and murder and they must now throw their all into a battle to survive. A superb and unbearably tense thriller, with Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill and Billy Zane as the unhinged gooseberry.
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FUNNY GAMES (ORIGINAL) (1999)
Certification18 Our Rating
An indie thriller so dark and dangerously involving that the subtitles are completely unobtrusive. An inoffensive middle-class family set off to their secluded lakeside holiday home for a restful retreat. However the arrival of Peter and Paul puts paid to that as the pair embark on a truly chilling campaign of terror, intermittently turning to camera to consult the viewer as to what should happen next, cleverly implicating their audience in the unfolding horror. Superbly unsettling.
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FUNNY GAMES (US) (2007)
Certification18 Our Rating
Vitually a shot by shot remake of Haneke's dark and dangerous tale of a family's holiday being wrecked by a pair of sadistic psychopaths. It's difficult to judge remakes having seen the original, the novelty has worn off, but, even if I had to advise watching the latter, this new version still cuts to the bone.
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STRIKING DISTANCE (1993)
Certification18 Our Rating
Once a hot-shot detective, Tom Hardy is demoted to lowly river patrol cop after claiming that a serial killer on the loose is in fact a fellow officer. Now an alcoholic outcast life gets even worse when all his ex-girlfriends start turning up murdered. Typical Bruce Willis action-packed thriller.
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