An affluent couple and their child arrive at their lakeside vacation home. Settling into their holiday routine, the family is visited by a pair of clean-cut young men in tennis whites, who soon begin to inexplicably subject them to a twisted and horrifying ordeal of ruthless terror.

Before Caché and Amour, the controversial Michael Haneke made waves with this cult horror film: a ruthlessly clever, shocking, diabolical game—at once played by the characters, the director, and the viewer—that picks apart the genre at the same time it terrifies the audience.