Before The Brutalist, Brady Corbet Starred in This 2007 Horror Movie With a Controversial RT Score

This year’s awards season is almost over, only having the upcoming Oscars ceremony left to wrap it all up, and Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist starring Adrien Brody is so far one of the frontrunners for another bunch of major wins.

The movie has previously garnered numerous accolades and took home a whole collection of statuettes, now having reasons to count on some Oscars too, including for Best Actor and Best Picture. The movie will uplift Corbet’s directorial career on an even higher level should it ultimately win in the main categories.

However, Corbet himself wasn’t that much into directing for as many years or even decades as some of his fellow Best Director nominees, since he actually started it all off with acting and even starred in a very controversial horror back in the day.

Funny Games Stars Brody Corbet As One of the Leads

Released all the way back in 2007, Funny Games came as a remake of the 1997 movie of the same name, with both flicks directed by Michael Haneke.

The movie is led by Naomi Watts and Tim Roth portraying a married couple of George and Ann who, accompanied by their son George, arrives at their holiday home in a charming place with a lake nearby, though the family vacation is quickly disrupted by a visit from two young men, played by Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet.

To George and Ann, both strangers seem polite, pleasant and even charming gentlemen who, however, soon proceed to terrorising the entire family, confronting them with a life-or-death choice they have to make until the next day comes.

Funny Games Didn’t Seem Like a Funny Game to Critics Though

Despite Haneke’s attempts to repeat the original movie’s moderate success, the 2007 movie failed to meet its director’s expectations.

Funny Games bombed in the box office, garnering only $8 million worldwide with the initial budget of $15 million. Additionally, the film wasn’t a hit among critics either, currently holding an average score of 53% on Rotten Tomatoes; the audiences were just a tiny bit more condescending though, giving the movie 54% of positive reviews.

Funny Games came as one of the first movies Corbet starred in, so he quickly moved on from a failure and later on appeared in a bunch of more successful flicks, though Haneke’s reimagining of his own story remains the actor’s most notorious movie after all.