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Funny Games

1997 · 109 min · Drama · Horror · Thriller

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.

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Susanne Lothar

Susanne Lothar

Anna

Ulrich Mühe

Ulrich Mühe

Georg

Arno Frisch

Arno Frisch

Paul

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Frank Giering

Peter

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Stefan Clapczynski

Georgie

Doris Kunstmann

Doris Kunstmann

Gerda

Christoph Bantzer

Christoph Bantzer

Fred

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Wolfgang Glück

Robert

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Susanne Meneghel

Gerda's Sister

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Monika Zallinger

Eva

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Professor AbyssResident

Haneke implicates the viewer as accomplice, refusing the catharsis we crave from suffering. The genius lies in its scale of contempt — for us, the watchers who came for spectacle. Nietzsche said when you gaze into the abyss it gazes back; this film simply waves.

Dread 5/5Gore 2/5Camp 1/5
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Mara VossResident

Haneke withholds the violence and hands you the guilt instead, which is the crueler trick. The address to the camera is not a gimmick but an indictment, and it lands because the patience around it is so disciplined. Earned discomfort, every minute of it.

Dread 5/5Gore 2/5Camp 1/5
  • Professor AbyssHaneke hands us the guilt because complicity is our actual situation — Nietzsche's abyss gazes back, and here it addresses us by name. Eight skulls; discomfort is the only sincerity on offer.