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Funny Games
Film
FilmR2008
Funny Games
Directed by Michael Haneke
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. From TMDB
205 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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| TMDB reviews * | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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Funny Games is a 2008 thriller horror film, directed by Michael Haneke, starring Naomi Watts, Tim Roth and Michael Pitt.
- 178 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Jul 17, 2023 to Nov 5, 2026
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60 of 205 · most liked firstCurrently HBO has the 1997 film Funny Games listed under "comedies". Someone is going to have a very unfortunate adventure.
neutral · AI labelView post →When I see a vid pop up on YT about Funny Games with a million views, my thought isn't "oh wow a million ppl are gonna find out about a contentious & interesting movie" it's "oh wow a million ppl are gonna watch this vid as a replacement for the movie". in the end who cares I guess (me sadly lol)
neutral · AI labelView post →#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky #horrorsky The Brood: great creepy-kid movie. love this one Funny Games: the original. horrifying intruder takes family film Proxy: boring pregnancy/therapy/revenge Heel: boring transform bad kid to good
neutral · AI labelView post →What is your discomfort movie? A movie you saw one time and said okay, never again? I have several but here are three: Kids Requiem For A Dream Funny Games (both)
neutral · AI labelView post →"your main media diet is preschool media"? does this motherfucker think Funny Games is a kids movie? did he read the title and just assume...?
neutral · AI labelView post →Right-wing pundits used to take "the Jedi were bad" further and argue the genocidal Empire were good. Hey, why so upset? It's just a movie, I'm just trolling! I pictured all those smug little freaks smirking like Michael Pitt at the end of Funny Games, with the same thing ultimately on their minds.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday to German filmmaker Michael Haneke, 3/23/1942. Resume of challenging & provocative works: 89 Seventh Continent 92 Benny's Video 97 Funny Games 00 Code Unknown 01 Piano Teacher 03 Time of the Wolf 05 Cache 09 White Ribbon 12 Amour (Oscar noms writer/director) 17 Happy End #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →late program: i tried watching a recent movie and that didn't pan out, so it again came to a coin toss -- between Funny Games and Sherlock Hound -- and surprisingly the coin picked the lighter of the two (though the plot in this episode is coin themed, hmm)
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #161 "Funny Games" (Michael Haneke/1997) I love this movie but I recognize it is not for everyone. It is a deeply uncomfortable watch. You should probably check it out to determine if I am crazy or not 😅
positive · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday to German filmmaker Michael Haneke, 3/23/1942. Resume of challenging & provocative works. 89 Seventh Continent 92 Benny's Video 97 Funny Games 00 Code Unknown 01 Piano Teacher 03 Time of the Wolf 05 Cache 09 White Ribbon 12 Amour (Oscar noms writer/director) 17 Happy End #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →This may be something of a basic answer, but HAUTE TENSION. I've never felt no insulted by a movie Second place probably FUNNY GAMES, which is the movie working as intended I suppose
negative · AI labelView post →It's been about 17 years since I watched the English language remake of this film so I decided it's finally time to watch the original. Any fans of Funny Games out there? Either version.
neutral · AI labelView post →Funny Games. It's an Arthouse Horror movie that hates Horror Movies, and the moral of the story is that you are a bitch for liking this film.
negative · AI labelView post →this drives me nuts about Funny Games. You are not implicating the audience about violence in movies, because you made this movie. You did the violence.
negative · AI labelView post →Psychologically uncomfortable films like Funny Games (1997). Could anyone who has seen and felt psychologically uncomfortable during _Funny Games_ (1997) suggest similar films? My own suggestions are: - _Midsommar_ (2019), - _Eden Lake_ (2008), - _Mother!_ (2017).
neutral · AI labelView post →The last 4 movies I watched... Supergirl (2026) Funny Games (1998) The Game Toy Story 5 also watched: Buffalo '66 Belle A.I. Artificial Intelligence #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky boxd.it/Iqj
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a solid list. Also: There Will Be Blood (which I will never stop saying IS a horror movie), The Long Walk, Funny Games, Antichrist, Speak No Evil, Climax... The list goes on...
neutral · AI labelView post →Scream and Funny Games are in a way two opposite sides of exploring movie violence in that Scream plays up the formula and distance, while Funny Games takes an angle where it takes away all that distance and makes you sit with the consequences.
neutral · AI labelView post →Starting my #BleakWeek Year 4 journey with a film I have “complicated” feelings about: Michael Haneke’s English language remake of his own FUNNY GAMES (2007). Giving it a second chance (and yes, I’ve seen the original too). @amcinematheque.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Is The Bride! a great piece of filmmaking? No, but I dug it. I would ride into battle for Jessie Buckley, man, she was awesome. I’m probably in the minority for that movie. Rewatched Funny Games cause I was in the mood for something relaxing & calm lol 😉. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →What movie has an ending so bleak you’re left feeling empty inside? FUNNY GAMES (1997)
neutral · AI labelView post →Civil War gnaws at me like Funny Games: a movie that I know what it's about, that I know I'm going to find both repellent and haunting, and that I keep deciding never to watch but still thinking maybe I should watch anyway
neutral · AI labelView post →#filmsky The horror movie as art film? In A Glass Cage (out today, 1986) takes on similar terrain as Salo and Funny Games: an appalling subject (Nazi abuse of children, then revenge) done in a stylish, artful, powerhouse way. You can’t stop watching, but it’s dire nihilism is on full display
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t think Cabin in the Woods is a movie for critical thinking. I’m probably prejudiced against it because I watched it when people said it was better than Funny Games, an angry movie with real contempt for the genre it depicts. Cabin is by comparison fairly toothless, a gentle ribbing of horror
positive · AI labelView post →As WBD drops a trailer for its animated remake of ‘Funny Games,’ I again ask if WB can, this time, become a major box office contender in the realm of feature animation. Can ‘The Cat in the Hat’ succeed (in terms of paving the way) where ‘Space Jam,’ ‘Happy Feet,’ and ‘LEGO Movie’ did not?
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's Deep Cuts episode takes a deep dive into one of the more unsettling films of the late 90s, Michael Haneke's wildly polarizing home invasion film, Funny Games! Likes, shares, & subs appreciated!
neutral · AI labelView post →Michael Haneke's 2007 remake of his own film FUNNY GAMES The original is already one of the most smug and dopey films in movie history but somehow it became even smugger and dopier when Haneke remade it with an American setting
negative · AI labelView post →Tonight's film Funny Games (1997)
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie Review Brooklyn Ewing takes a look at Everyone is Going to Die "This movie isn’t for everyone. If you lean toward movies like Last House on the Left, The Strangers, Inside, or Funny Games, then you will not want to miss this" gnofhorror.com/everyone-is-... @frightclub.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →so i’m watching a video on this godawful movie called Funny Games a horror movie that blames the audience for watching a horror movie and it turns out it’s a remake. ok. where is the original director from? austria. of course. the land of the most terrible, puffed up, self-serious movies ever
negative · AI labelView post →An arty, abrasive crossbreeding of the home invasion movie and the Theatre of Cruelty. I have to wonder if Michael Haneke saw DEATH GAME prior to making the rather similar FUNNY GAMES. At first, I hated the outsized kabuki performances by Locke and Camp, but they ended up adding a lot to the film.
neutral · AI labelView post →a low budget horror movie where the Liberty Biberty couple do a Funny Games on the family from the Expedia commercial
neutral · AI labelView post →Writer/director Brady Corbet has started Awards Season collecting prizes for THE BRUTALIST. As actor, worked w/some greats: Hardwicke: Thirteen Araki: Mysterious Skin Haneke: Funny Games Von Trier: Melancholia Ostlund: Force Majeure Assayas: Clouds of Sils Maria That's how you do it! #filmsky 📽🎥🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →We’re having Fun With Nihilism this week on Trailers From Hell! First up, tune in to TFH Guru Francis Galluppi’s fresh trailer commentary for the original Funny Games, a truly unsettling home invasion thriller. trailersfromhell.com/funny-games/
neutral · AI labelView post →Michael Haneke (with scenes from the 1997 version of his film "Funny Games") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Michael Haneke (with scenes from the 1997 version of his film "Funny Games") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →In my defense (1) I actually really (I don't want to say like, but respect?) Funny Games as a film and (2) at a meta level it was very, very, very, very funny.
neutral · AI labelView post →gonna repost a bit of my movie fanart here. heres my darlings from Funny Games 1997 ⛳️🏌️
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 Funny Games (1997) 🇦🇹 #Movie “Is that enough? You want a real ending, with plausible plot development, right?” It opened later in Japan around 2001. First saw it in a theater back then, and revisited it on streaming this time. Still leaves that uneasy feeling long after it ends.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've told you about the time a French girl was living with us for the summer (daughter of longstanding family friends and she was interning for a photographer in STL) and she chose Funny Games for my mom's first, and as would emerge, only, planned family friday movie night?
neutral · AI labelView post →Michael Haneke’s original 'Funny Games' (1997) was laced with parody, but the U.S. remake fully commits to the bit, lampooning the established art house aesthetic while creating an unsparing film product that is patently synthetic. www.splittoothmedia.com/funny-games/
neutral · AI labelView post →This is why I was never able to get on board with Funny Games. It makes a judgment that purports to directly intercept its audience. But it’s like. You’re the movie, man. It’s your house!
negative · AI labelView post →i don’t know if i have an unhinged comfort movie but the amount of times i’ve watched and made other people watch Funny Games (2007) with me seems significant so let’s say that because it’s funny
positive · AI labelView post →Funny Games. Fuck that movie.
negative · AI labelView post →first #letterboxdfriday of may and my #lastfourwatched were Cure (1997) Funny Games (1997) Gummo (1997) Lost Paradise (1997)
neutral · AI labelView post →Leaders: Ari Aster movies Fede Alvarez movies M. Night movies Funny Games Any Halloween movie post 2007 High Tension Lights Out
neutral · AI labelView post →Snowtown/The Snowtown Murders and A Serbian Film for me. I have Funny Games on DVD but I've never watched it... 🤔
neutral · AI labelView post →You guys ever see the movie Funny Games? Pretty good explanation of how we wound up in this scenario as a country.
positive · AI labelView post →im usually an expert movie-picker but "Funny Games" was a big ol' whiff lmao
negative · AI labelView post →This week on the Chat-About… Sppoktember is over and REMAKETOBER is here! Starting with Michael Haneke’s brutally sadistic FUNNY GAMES and his shot for shot American remake. The great @hcjustin.com joins to check out my golf clubs and ask for some eggs. Sat Oct 4 • 3pm ET twitch.tv/lord_googoo
neutral · AI labelView post →Recommending Funny Games as a family film on my FB page, and waiting for the angry DMs later.
positive · AI labelView post →"Okay so Funny Games or A Serbian Film?" "Which do you think I'll enjoy more?" "No, which do you wanta watch FIRST"
neutral · AI labelView post →Third film on HBO Max, another Haneke, Funny Games. Seen the American remake. Hear this is better. Haneke directed both films. #filmsky #letterboxd #LastFourWatched boxd.it/1WKM
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching #FilmSky Funny Games (2007) Directed by Michael Haneke Is this my second Michael Pitt movie where he plays a killer loosely inspired by Leopold and Loeb in 1 week? Tune into @murdermfiction.bsky.social on the main feed and our Patreon to find out www.patreon.com/cw/MurderMad...
neutral · AI labelView post →For B-Movie/schlock; ReAnimator. For genuinely dark and unsettling; Funny Games (both versions)
neutral · AI labelView post →Funny Games, the central thesis of which was “movies like this are bad and if you like them you are a bad person” Fuck that movie
negative · AI labelView post →There’s nothing like an art house horror movie! Michael Haneke’s grim Funny Games (out today, 1997) is the anti-Death Wish movie of the century: this tale of two teens who torment a nice family is a disturbing exercise in denying audience expectations. Don’t the thugs always lose in the end? Nah
neutral · AI labelView post →Funny Games is that movie for me One and done
neutral · AI labelView post →The Writing Darkness Movie Club has officially started! We're starting with Funny Games 1997 We couldn't do this one without eggs
neutral · AI labelView post →Funny Games (2007) What do you think of this American version Michael Haneke made that’s a shot for shot remake of his original 1997 film? Joining me to discuss this film year: @shoottheflick.bsky.social #movies #filmsky
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