Is Funny Games a satire?

Is Funny Games a satire? It looks like a horror movie and sounds like a play, but really this masterpiece is part open letter, part satire, part indictment of our ongoing obsession with violence and terror. Haneke doesn’t toil in subtlety.

It looks like a horror movie and sounds like a play, but really this masterpiece is part open letter, part satire, part indictment of our ongoing obsession with violence and terror. Haneke doesn’t toil in subtlety.