Funny Games (2008)

R03/14/2008Thriller, Horror1h 51m
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You must admit, you brought this on yourself.

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Naomi Watts

    Ann

  2. Cast 1

    Tim Roth

    George

  3. Cast 1

    Michael Pitt

    Paul

  4. Cast 1

    Brady Corbet

    Peter

  5. Cast 1

    Devon Gearhart

    Georgie

  6. Cast 1

    Boyd Gaines

    Fred

  7. Cast 1

    Siobhan Fallon Hogan

    Betsy

  8. Cast 1

    Robert LuPone

    Robert

  9. Susi Haneke

    Betsy's Sister-in-Law

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 ...