Funny Games

Funny Games

Rating

4.5 (1)

Release Date

8/23/1997

Runtime

109 mins

Overview

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

Status

Released

Original Language

German

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Homepage

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How It Feels

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A meticulously cruel film that traps its audience in a lake house with two sadists, forcing you to watch a family torn apart by psychological and physical torment. It's designed to unsettle and implicate you, less a thriller to enjoy than an endurance test that questions why we watch violence for entertainment.

Mood

Dread-soakedUnsettlingClaustrophobicAngry

Themes

PowerFamilySurvivalCorruption

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

HandheldNaturalistic

Structure

Single location

Heads up

Graphic violenceChild endangerment

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