1001 Movies Club - Funny Games (1997)

#930. Funny Games (1997)

Why It's In The Book: "In this brutal and provocative "home invasion" movie... Michael Haneke pushes viewers to the limit, forcing us to contemplate the senselessness of random violence, as well as our seemingly ceaseless fascination with watching it on-screen... While the sadistic teens play not-so-funny games with their victims... the director plays games with his audience... There is no happy ending here, only troubling questions and the inevitability of future mayhem." -1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

Member Ratings

Adolytsi - 9/10
"What happens in this film is given no context, no meaning is explained. It simply is, and it is what it is; senseless, and beyond comprehension."
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Squish - 9/10
"What's funny about Funny Games, however is that on several occasions Haneke breaks the fourth wall through Paul, the lead assailant. You may love it, you may hate it, but it's unique."
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ChrisLejarzar - 8/10
"Funny Games is incredibly well made, but I never want to see it again. Perhaps that's the point."
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Movie Guy Steve - 8/10
"There’s no catharsis here, but there is plenty to think and talk about."
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Ripley - 8/10
"Is it wrong that I don't like feeling accomplice to the torture and murder of fictional people?"
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Lindsey - 7/10
"What a fantastic example of a dark comedy."
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Shubhajit Lahiri - 6/10
"It is a vicious body blow to our pop culture, our mass media, and in turn our lives, violence has become a daily diet of which – a theme earlier propounded by Oliver Stone in his equally notorious Natural Born Killers."
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alfindeol - 5/10
"Apparently Austria is the one country in the world without an emergency number."
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Overall Rating: 7.6/10