The Film: Made largely as both a challenge to his own abilities (see his comment below) and because he refused to let anyone else do it, Haneke produces a shot-for-shot remake of his 1997 charming-serial-killers-torment-family thriller.

He would only make it with Naomi Watts starring, and, in all honesty, never quite got it to the same impressive level as the original.

Haneke's View: "In order to decide to do a shot-by-shot remake, you have to be masochistic to some point, because it is a much greater challenge. If you do an original film, and you don’t like a scene, you just cut it out. But if you do a shot-by-shot remake you don’t have that option; you have to be sure it succeeds.

"I didn’t have to add anything, and just to change it a little bit I thought was dishonorable. If at all, it became almost a gamble with myself, whether I was able to do the exact same film under very different circumstances."