9 Scary Movies You're Too Pussy To Watch By Yourself This Halloween

3. Funny Games

Built around the use of shock-and-awe just for the sake of including shock-and-awe, Funny Games is the kind of movie that is supposed to make you feel like crap after you're done watching it. And not just that "I have the feeling of eventual regurgitation in my belly" kind of crappy, either. I mean the real, morally reprehensible, guilty heart variety.

Reviews of Funny Games are some of the most mixed of any recent horror movie, with some believing the blatantly over-the-top brutality used is the only way to drive home the film's point about our culture's love of violence and others believing that the film is far too preachy in taking a "moral high ground" that was predicated on a series of bombastic onscreen murders. In other words, some think it's appalling (but worthwhile) and some think it's appalling (and stupid and unnecessary and worthless).

But make no mistake about it, Funny Games will get you right in the guts. And there will be many scenes that make you want to shut the TV off and watch a lighthearted cartoon about a talking dog who plays basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters. But stay to the end and you'll earn the greatest reward of all: A sinking feeling of despair and the urge to never watch this movie again.