Funny Games
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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.
What critics thought
DivisiveHaneke's shot-for-shot English-language remake of his own 1997 film divided critics sharply along a single fault line: is the film a genuinely subversive critique of screen violence, or is it simply the thing it claims to interrogate? Defenders found it bracingly uncompromising; detractors saw a self-righteous director punishing audiences for showing up. The film landed with a notably hostile critical reception overall.
“Unrelenting and brilliant, Funny Games is a truly great film – an incisive, artistic triumph that doubles as a remarkably thrilling and unique cinematic experience.”
Todd Gilchrist·IGN
“a sour project that defines anti-imaginative”
Joshua Rothkopf·Time Out New York
“At least with the remake Funny Games, Mr. Haneke shows a certain kinship with someone like Eli Roth, whose Hostel movies have brought nothing but scorn from responsible critics.”
A.O. Scott·The New York Times
Parents guide
- Violence
- moderate
- Sex
- mild
- Profanity
- moderate
- Substances
- mild
- Intensity
- severe
Genres
Thriller, Horror
Funny Games
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.
What critics thought
DivisiveHaneke's shot-for-shot English-language remake of his own 1997 film divided critics sharply along a single fault line: is the film a genuinely subversive critique of screen violence, or is it simply the thing it claims to interrogate? Defenders found it bracingly uncompromising; detractors saw a self-righteous director punishing audiences for showing up. The film landed with a notably hostile critical reception overall.
“Unrelenting and brilliant, Funny Games is a truly great film – an incisive, artistic triumph that doubles as a remarkably thrilling and unique cinematic experience.”
Todd Gilchrist·IGN
“a sour project that defines anti-imaginative”
Joshua Rothkopf·Time Out New York
“At least with the remake Funny Games, Mr. Haneke shows a certain kinship with someone like Eli Roth, whose Hostel movies have brought nothing but scorn from responsible critics.”
A.O. Scott·The New York Times
Parents guide
- Violence
- moderate
- Sex
- mild
- Profanity
- moderate
- Substances
- mild
- Intensity
- severe
Genres
Thriller, Horror
Cast & Crew
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