Toying with familiarity and completely obliterating the fourth wall, Funny Games is a horrific foray into the tragedy of reality and vice versa. As a family begins their summer vacation in the affluent and comfortably isolated Hamptons, they are thrust into playing a perverse series of "games" with two young men of WASPy, Aryan breeding that appear at their doorstep and smile their way through the threshold. Without explanation, or rather without a prototypically well-rounded and audience friendly explanation, words are exchanged, actions are taken and ignored, and all hope is abandoned. Engrossing to the point of physical revulsion, unappealing in its vagary yet surprisingly thought-provoking; definitely a trepidatious viewing experience.