Funny Games
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A relentless, intellectually cruel psychological horror that weaponizes the viewer's expectations and complicity through meta-commentary and sustained sadistic torment.
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.
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