It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye

Ten years after the release of the original, German-born director Michael Haneke follows up his critically acclaimed Caché with a remake of his own Funny Games.

In the update, opening on Feb. 15, Tim Roth and Naomi Watts take on the roles of a vacationing husband and wife who, along with their young son, are terrorized by a couple of innocent-looking, white-clad young psychopaths (Hedwig and the Angry Inch’s Michael Pitt and Mysterious Skin’s Brady Corbet).

I really want to see this one, if anything because of the black-as-coal humor of the trailer. That and you have to admit, the poster at right is pretty cool.

Photo: Warner Independent Pictures.