Violence and humor, my favorite combination.

Michael Haneke's shot-for-shot, line-for-line remake of his own film Funny Games, has completely exceeded my expectations. I absolutely loved it. With this slow-paced, disturbing and devilishly funny movie, Haneke is playing his own game with you the viewer. He is daring you with every frame to get out of your seat and leave the theater, or finish the film only to complain later how lazy and self-indulgent he is for making the same movie twice. No matter what you think of this film, Haneke is having the last laugh!!

Michael Pitt was a delight to watch in this film. I had him pegged as the next big thing after seeing Hedwig and the Angry Inch and was blown away by his delicate performance in The Dreamers. He is currently working on Oliver Stone's film Pinkville which has begun production and it was announced that he will star in Abel Ferrara's prequel to the film King of New York, Pericle il Nero. This young man who looks like a Cabbage Patch Doll, is about to become a major player.

Here are some of my other picks for Hilariously-Fucked-Up-Violent films, in no particular order:

Man Bites Dog (my all time fav)
A Clockwork Orange
Pulp Fiction
Freeway (Reese and Kiefer at their best)
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Clay Pigeons
Hard Candy
Taxi Driver
American Psycho (do you like Huey Lewis and the News?)
Happiness (molestation can be funny too)
River's Edge
Hard Boiled
The Warriors
Le Samurai
Spanking the Monkey (this ones a real motherfucker)
House Of Yes
Brazil (care for a little necrophilia?)
Trainspotting (who knew drug abuse could this much fun)
Delicatessen (while eating a clown one cannibal says to the other one, "does this taste funny to you?")
Reservoir Dogs (Torturing a cop to a Gerry Rafferty song. Classic)
Dead Ringers (barbaric gynecological tools, fun for the whole family)
Badlands
Dr. Strangelove
Fargo (funny accents and a wood chipper)
In the company of men & Your Freinds and Neighbors (emotional abuse can be funny too)
True Romance
Prime Cut
Repo Man
Heathers
Swimming with Sharks
Straw Dogs (less laughs, more violence)
Natural Born Killers
Wild at Heart
Death Wish
Cape Fear (both versions, but De Niro tickles my ribs more than Mitchum)
Videodrome (hyperviolent torture TV, sadomasochistic sex games and bodily transformations. Some real mind-bending shit)