Very few psychological thrillers have the raw power and great performers as those found within Funny Games from 1997. I am unclear whether to call this film a horror movie or not but it contains all ...

Anyone who saw Michael Haneke‘s last film, Hidden (CachŽ), will recognize some familiar tropes here. Both films deal with the middle class under siege; both employ the cinematic language of the ...

Michael Haneke first made Funny Games in 1997, in his native Austria, and though that shocker certainly put arthouse audiences through the wringer, it was never really seen by the people it was ...

Euro helmer Michael Haneke’s almost shot-by-shot remake of his 1997 chiller “Funny Games U.S.” is as shocking and deliberately manipulative as the original movie. Unspooled in Cannes’ 1997 competition ...

Austrian director Michael Haneke (Caché, La Pianiste) made the original Funny Games in 1997 as a response to what the director considered to be the deplorable and irresponsible treatment of violence ...

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Brian DePalma’s Passion, based on the French thriller Love Crime, has us recalling other ...