A middle-class family arrive at their lake house for a holiday, but before long, two eerily polite young men appear on their doorstep. What begins as an awkward interaction soon spirals into a home invasion when the boys take the family hostage and announce they’re going to play a series of deadly games with them.

The director's most notorious provocation, Haneke uses Funny Games as a means to draw queasy attention to the way that cinema milks pleasure from pain and implicate you, the audience member, in this spectacle of unbearable cruelty.