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Funny Games
Funny Games
8.0
/10
13,783 Ratings

FUNNY GAMES

Directed by Michael Haneke
Austria, 1997
Thriller, Crime, Drama

Synopsis

An affluent couple and their child arrive at their lakeside vacation home. Settling into their holiday routine, the family is visited by a pair of clean-cut young men in tennis whites, who soon begin to inexplicably subject them to a twisted and horrifying ordeal of ruthless terror.

Synopsis

An affluent couple and their child arrive at their lakeside vacation home. Settling into their holiday routine, the family is visited by a pair of clean-cut young men in tennis whites, who soon begin to inexplicably subject them to a twisted and horrifying ordeal of ruthless terror.

Our take

Before Caché and Amour, the controversial Michael Haneke made waves with this cult horror film: a ruthlessly clever, shocking, diabolical game—at once played by the characters, the director, and the viewer—that picks apart the genre at the same time it terrifies the audience.