10 Weirdest Times Films Broke The Fourth Wall

6. Rewind - Funny Games

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Hey remember that terrible Adam Sandler movie Click? Where he has a magic remote control that he uses to watch slow motion t*ts bounce around and generally be a menace to society? Funny Games is nothing like that.

It's a clever, intense, and visceral art horror movie that sees a family terrorised in their vacation home, that is, until the tables turn and one manages to grab a gun. Director Haneke isn't here to play fair though and neither are his characters, with murderous Paul utilising some dirty tactics to keep the family he's terrorising in check. But how does an actually good movie at all relate to Adam Sandler?

Well, it's a magic television remote again my guys, used to rewind the scene and play it out again to Paul and Peter's advantage. Coming out of all but nowhere in a gritty realistic movie, it's a bizarre take that hammers home how utterly hopeless this situation is for the brutalised family. Even when they manage to swing the odds in their favour, the rules change, offering up a whole new level of terror for what's actually going to happen to these people.

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