10 'Rotten' Films That Will Eventually Be Viewed As Classics

10. Funny Games (2008)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 52% Why It'll Be Re-Assessed As A Classic: Funny Games, Michael Haneke's English-language remake of his own 1998 Austrian film, is so gleefully brutal that it's often just downright off-putting. And that's exactly the point - Haneke's film tells the story of a middle-class American family terrorised and tortured by a pair of sadistic young men, and what the director wants to get at is how dangerously desensitised the audience has become to this kind of thing. As the attackers, Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet are excellent, as are Naomi Watts and Tim Roth as the family heads. Haneke is the star player here though - his camerawork is slick, cold and detached, and the choice to break the fourth wall is inspired, turning this cautionary home invasion tale into a display of true horror that makes the viewer feel involved, if helpless to intervene. As similarly nihilistic dramas like Fight Club and Irreversible were divisive and largely misunderstood upon release before their critical standing slowly increased, so Funny Games will come to be viewed as the subversive classic it really is.