8 Movies Too Upsetting To Watch Twice

1. Funny Games

It doesn't matter which version of Funny Games you watch (although it's proper to say the original was better), as they are essentially the exact same movie. Director Michael Haneke first made Funny Games in 1997 in Austria. 10 years later, he directed a shot-for-shot remake for American audiences. No matter which you watch, you can't really win; Funny Games is going to disturb you no matter what. Funny Games is a satirical horror movie that makes noteworthy use of the fourth wall. In both films, a family of three is taken hostage in their summer home by two young men, who bet them they will be dead by 9 the next morning. The two captors toy with the family, and use a game of eeny-meeny-miny-moe to find out which of the family will die first. The game ends with the young son Georgie getting blown away with a shotgun. The resulting scene of the parents mourning their son is an impressive but brutal 10 minute long take, most of which just involves the mother sitting tied up in the middle of the room crying. Funny Games is meant to make a statement about the affect of media violence on audiences. It seems Haneke feels that movies turn violence into a game for audiences, allowing us to relish in the celluloid brutality. But there's nothing to enjoy about the violence of Funny Games. It merely disturbs, particularly the ending in which the captors bring the mother to the middle of a lake and casually toss her over the side to drown. What are some movies that you could never watch twice? Let me know in the comments!