Funny Games
Funny Games
In this English-language remake of a deconstruction in the way violence is portrayed in the media, a family settles into its vacation home, which happens to be the next stop for a pair of young, articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood.
DarlingInThePlexx reviewedJune 5, 2025
Let me be clear: there is no joy here. No lesson. No redemption. Just two straight hours of cruelty, silence, and one deeply unhinged performance from Michael Freakin’ Pitt 😵💫🎾🔪
This isn’t a remake—it’s a carbon copy. Michael Haneke directed both versions (1997 and 2007) with surgical precision, and the only real difference is whether you want subtitles or Naomi Watts sobbing in English. Either way: you’re in for a deeply upsetting time. ☠️
Michael Pitt, though? 😮💨 Sir. He is terrifying. He’s magnetic. He’s the kind of beautiful that makes you say, “Oh no… I think I like this??” as he emotionally waterboards you with a dead stare. I will watch anything this man is in, even if it means spiraling afterward. No regrets. (Well, some regrets.)
This movie doesn’t hold your hand. It grabs your face, slaps you with nihilism, breaks the fourth wall, and dares you to keep watching. And if you’re someone who needs a little narrative sunshine? Run. RUN. 🌧️⛔
But if you want to sit with your own discomfort for a while?
✨Michael. Freaking. Pitt.✨