31 Scary Movies that are 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon: ‘The Piano Teacher’

“The Piano Teacher” (2001) – Did you take piano lessons?  I did.  Admittedly, I didn’t enjoy playing and, unfortunately, lost interest in the instrument.  Looking back, that’s a shame, and my teacher was really pleasant, kind, and patient.  Oh well. Another piano teacher, one living in Vienna, isn’t so understanding, and she’s a woman to be feared. Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert) is a skilled piano professor, but she’s a lonely woman who harbors resentment and jealously, and these contemptable traits lash out when we least expect them in Michael Haneke’s…

31 Scary Movies that are 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon: ‘The Seventh Continent’

“The Seventh Continent” (1989) – Michael Haneke doesn’t shy away from dark material.  He sprints towards it.  Haneke has made a career of capturing the shadowy aspects of the human soul and bravely displaying them on the big screen, including his first feature film. The setting is modern-day times in Austria, and a small nuclear family – Georg (Dieter Berner), Anna (Birgit Doll), and their daughter Evi (Leni Tanzar) – fit nicely in society with work and school.  However, one day, Georg and Anna give up on their lives, quit…