A polite knock. A request for eggs. And then the floor drops out. Our latest dives into Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (1997), a home-invasion thriller that refuses to play by genre rules. We unpack why this film still needles under the skin: the calculated pace, the suffocating silence broken by blasts of abrasive music, and the way two eerily courteous young men turn social niceties into weapons. We compare the Austrian original to the shot-for-shot American remake, outline what makes the ori...