Showing posts with label michael hanneke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label michael hanneke. Show all posts

Monday, November 11, 2024

Murder Tape

 

 (wikipedia)

BENNY'S VIDEO-1992-In Vienna, teenage Benny (Arno Firsch) spends too much time watching violent videos (including one of a pig being shot in the head). One day he meets a young girl around his age and they go to his home where while his parents are away. They hang out for while until he kills her and has taped it. He goes about with the rest of his day, going to a club, staying at a friend's home. Eventually he shows the tape to his ineffectual parents who debate what to do. 

This psychological modern horror film was directed by Michael Haneke who later made an excellent version of Franz Kafka's THE CASTLE (1997).

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Saturday, July 23, 2022

What Did She Say?

 

 (imdb)

THE CASTLE-1997-If you're familiar with the novels and short stories of Czech writer Franz Kafka you might enjoy this long authentic adaptation of his famous unfinished novel. K (Ulrich Muhe), a land surveyor is summoned to a town possibly for a job but can make no headway with the mysterious bureaucracy of The Castle. Be in for a surprise if you don't know how the novel ends because this Austrian production ends the very same way. I think the makers of Blair Witch saw this! It was directed by Michael Hanneke for Austrian TV. He later made THE PIANO TEACHER and TIME OF THE WOLF.

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