Somewhere I had it in mind that this movie would be HILARIOUS. No idea where I got that from, because it's totally wrong. While there are humorous parts, this movie is more concerned with the tragidrama of these trapped, repressed older children not knowing anything about the outside world. It's a very malicious Swiss Family Robinson. The parents, both in on the game, reinforce the atmosphere of the house-prison by hiding the existence of the telephone (the word 'telephone' in the movie means salt to these children) and teaching them wrong words, like the example in that parenthetical. When it seems like an outside force may threaten the integrity of the Compound, the father--no one has names, by the way--responds with violence, once literally bludgeoning to death his son's prostitute with a VCR and another time covering himself in fake blood and tearing up his clothes announcing that their brother-who-lives-on-the-outside-(but-doesn't-really-exist) had been killed by a cat, the most ferocious animal in the world.
That right there is an example of how this movie could be a comedy if it were played for laughs.
Instead it's played for creeps and weirds.
So, is it worth it? If you are a conniseur of film and art, yes. If you're looking to be entertained, no. If you like watching soft-core incest, yes. If you think that factory security guards should not be assaulted by their own appliances, no.
Your call, I suppose.
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