2008 · thriller · horror · slasher
Funny Games
Directed by Michael Haneke1h 51m2008
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.
Our read: Funny Games (2008) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive thriller · horror · slasher entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, extreme thriller / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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