Funny Games

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Funny Games

R

Released Mar 14, 2008

1h 52m

Mystery & Thriller

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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.

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Critics Consensus

Though made with great skill, Funny Games is nevertheless a sadistic exercise in chastising the audience.

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Jake Wilson

The Age (Australia)

Registers more strongly than the original as a film about privileged white people...

Rated: 3.5/5

Sep 12, 2008

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Paul Byrnes

Sydney Morning Herald

It's a tawdry kind of horror movie plot, given new meaning by Haneke's considerable intellect.

Rated: 3.5/4

Sep 5, 2008

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David Stratton

At the Movies (Australia)

I'm not at all sure that, in manipulating the audience to make his points, Haneke isn't as guilty of exploitation as the filmmakers and the films he's attacking here.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 5, 2008

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Kathy Fennessy

Seattle Film Blog

Funny Games isn't meant to echo reality. Most of the incidents that transpire are "plausible," to borrow Paul's word, even if he and Peter aren't intended to resemble actual human beings, and Haneke doesn't burden the characters with a back story.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jul 31, 2024

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Don’t think of Haneke’s picture as a thriller, bound by typical thriller tropes, complete with an exciting thriller climax and gratifying conclusion. Think of it as an experiment to show you how Hollywood cinema has manipulated your expectations

Rated: 3.5/4

Jun 5, 2024

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Stephanie Archer

Film Inquiry

Michael Haneke‘s Funny Games finds little humor in the horror it unleashes on the unsuspecting Farber Family. A game to shock and horrify, this is not a film with a happy ending, but rather a terrifying understanding of the continuing cycle of violence.

Feb 4, 2024

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Thom B

To this very day, May 2025, I am still haunted by the ending. I found it to be a very sick movie. Giving 2 stars is being gratuitous. On a side note, it's perplexing how we still want to revisit something to take another peek.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/25/25

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Alison K

I think this movie is amazing the actors and actress is great and I don’t care about the original if I don’t know the actors I’m not going to have attachment with them I don’t care it doesn’t matter to me I have to know you to see if I want you to live or not or I care about you at all people can disagree with me but it’s my personal opinion you don’t have to agree but I said what I said I really enjoy this movie and the performance I’m glad that villains one it was hard to watch the family suffer but it was good for the villains to finally win most movies now days 2025 they loses lot I really love the villains it was kind of interesting to see their interpretation and to see why they’re motivated to do something like this I have seen this movie so many times it was really good I love at the end the creepy smile wink at the end Micheal Pitt is amazing villain

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/20/25

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Julian S

Whichever version you watch, FUNNY GAMES is a taut, unflinching study in discomfort with a lingering aftertaste. The U.S. cast edges slightly ahead, but both are excellent.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/16/25

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Claudia R

Movie was so infiuriating i didn't like it.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/16/25

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Jeremy S

Do not understand the low score on here. One of the most gripping movies I have ever seen. And Tim and Naomi to boot. It's making me question the collective wisdom of Rot Tot

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/14/25

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Loof S

Boring, unexciting and predictable

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/08/25

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Synopsis

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.

Director: Michael Haneke
Producer: Chris Coen, Hamish McAlpine
Screenwriter: Michael Haneke
Distributor: Warner Independent
Production Co: Celluloid Dreams, Lucky Red, X-Filme Creative Pool, Tartan Productions, Halcyon Pictures
Rating: R (Terror|Some Language|Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 14, 2008, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 28, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.3M
Runtime: 1h 52m

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