10 Horror Movies That Lied To You In The Title

Michael Haneke (director of 2001's The Piano Teacher and 2009's The White Ribbon) is not known for his comedy stylings. Thus, when he makes a film (or films, as the case may be) called Funny Games, you know he doesn't mean Cards Against Humanity.

No, Haneke's Funny Games, which he made once in German and remade shot-for-shot a decade later in English to attract the US audience he had futilely hoped would watch the first one, features a diabolical home invasion. And it begins with two young men -- Peter (Brady Corbet) and Paul (Michael Pitt) -- charming their way into the lake house of the Farbers, an average American family.

Once inside, the pair subject the family to all manner of tortures and humiliations, toying with them and making them participate in "games" for which refusal means the death or injury of another family member. Perhaps the games are funny to Peter and Paul, but to we average viewers they are intended to cause reflection on our participation in dire fictions purely for our own entertainment and titillation. Funny indeed.