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Funny Games (1997)

★ 7.3 · 2,066 ratings on TMDB
Funny Games poster★ 7.3

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

DirectorMichael Haneke
CastArno Frisch, Christoph Bantzer, Doris Kunstmann, Frank Giering, Monika Zallinger, Stefan Clapczynski
GenresDrama, Horror, Thriller
The emergence reading

Funny Games keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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