Funny Games 2008

You must admit, you brought this on yourself.

6.565 / 10   1939 vote(s)
R
Thriller Horror

When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.

Release Date 2008-03-14
Runtime 1h 51m
Directors Darius Khondji, Michael Haneke, Beth Kuhn, Urs Hirschbiegel, Jason Graham, Justin Ritson
Producers Naomi Watts, Rene Bastian, Andro Steinborn, Andrea Occhipinti, Chris Coen, Hamish McAlpine, Hengameh Panahi, Christian Baute, Philippe Aigle, Carol Stiller, Douglas C. Steiner, Jonathan Schwartz
Writer Michael Haneke

This is a movie I can't help but really despise. Especially egregious is the pretentious way in which the filmmaker takes a position of haughty moral indignation and attempts to guilt-trip his own audience for wanting to watch a horror film in the first place. We know what he wanted to achieve with this movie, because he has told us explicitly; and he thought so highly of his achievement that he decided to make the film twice, shot-for-shot. Every scene is deliberately calculated to be as awkward to watch and as boring as possible, since anti-suspense is part of the "point". It is essentially the writer/director giving a middle finger to anyone willing to sit through this finger-wagging tripe.

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