Director Michael Haneke is best known for 2005's Caché, which used a cool, detached style to examine the effects of a stalker on a wealthy but dysfunctional Parisian family. This uncomfortable subject matter was explored by Haneke in much more bombastic fashion nine years earlier in Funny Games. A sort of meta-mixtape of Straw Dogs, Cape Fear, and A Clockwork Orange, the film wonders aloud why audiences respond to fear, violence, and torture. The......

In 1974, Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs) wrote, directed and produced arguably his bleakest film, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. It has been said that it was his favorite of the movies he made. The film chronicles the tale of Bennie, a down-on-his-luck piano player who sets out with his girlfriend to try and collect the bounty placed on the head of one Alfredo Garcia. Garcia has impregnated a rancher's daughter,......