Synopsis
Funny Games (1997) — watch online on iFILM, the Austrian thriller from director Michael Haneke that dismantles the horror genre from the inside. A family arrives at their lakeside holiday home. Two polite young men show up at the door. They seem harmless. They are not.
Susanne Lothar and Ulrich Mühe play the parents who slowly grasp that they are trapped and completely at the mercy of their visitors. Arno Frisch and Frank Giering deliver the violence without motivation, without backstory — Haneke refuses to explain or justify. The couple's ten-year-old son is in the next room. There is a bet. There are rules. The night is just beginning.
Shot in Austria, the film is a deliberate provocation about audiences who consume screen violence for entertainment. One character breaks the fourth wall and speaks directly to camera — no accident. Haneke thought so much of the concept that he remade it shot-for-shot in English in 2007 with Naomi Watts and Tim Roth. Stream Funny Games (1997) online on iFILM.
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