Funny Games U.S. (2007)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Michael Haneke

Writer:

Michael Haneke (written by)

Release Date:

27 March 2008 (Greece)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Shall we begin?

Plot:

Two psychotic young men take a family hostage in their cabin.

Plot Keywords:

Eggs | Serial Killer | Duct Tape | Maniac | Child Murder

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Naomi Watts	...	Ann
Tim Roth	...	George
Michael Pitt	...	Paul
Brady Corbet	...	Peter
Devon Gearhart	...	Georgie
Boyd Gaines	...	Fred
Siobhan Fallon	...	Betsy (as Siobhan Fallon Hogan)
Robert LuPone	...	Robert
Susanne C. Hanke	...	Betsy's Sister-in-Law
Linda Moran	...	Eve

Also Known As:

Funny Games (USA)

MPAA:

Rated R for terror, violence and some language.

Runtime:

111 min

Country:

USA | France | UK | Austria | Germany | Italy

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Ireland:16 | UK:18 | Canada:14A (British Columbia/Manitoba) | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A (Ontario) | USA:R (certificate #43792) | Denmark:15 | Norway:15 | Singapore:NC-16 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Finland:K-15 | Sweden:15 | France:-16 | Germany:18 | Netherlands:16 | Italy:VM14 | Ireland:15 (video rating) | Hong Kong:IIB | New Zealand:R18 | Australia:MA | Austria:16

Filming Locations:

Head of the Harbor, Long Island, New York, USA

Company:

Celluloid Dreams

Trivia:

The production crew used the blueprints from the 1997 original. The set of the house in the 2007 American remake has the same proportions as that of the 1997 set.

Quotes:

Paul: You know, if you'd let Peter help you, it would hurt less.
Peter: I'm happy to help, really, I just don't want to impose.

Movie Connections:

References "Beavis and Butt-Head" (1993)

Perfectly terrifying

A Swiss clock. The times of this film are perfect, the tension slowly grows and build into the spectator a feeling of impatience, that can be attributed to an excessive slowness in some actions, but that instead it is the deliberate result of a good direction. The rules of the fear change, a situation of terror is not introduced suddenly, but it gradually passes from a long series of feelings that exponentially increases of gradation without immediately reaching the physical brutality. Courtesy, embarrassment, irritation, hostility, contrast, pain, fear, terror they slowly follow holding in tension who looks. Haneke has seen Hitchcock and a lot of times. See it with the family.