Tim Roth has said making this film traumatized him, and he'll never watch it. He said he was particularly disturbed because Devon Gearhart resembled his own son.
The film is a shot-by-shot remake of the Austrian Funny Games (1997), also directed by Michael Haneke.
The production crew used the blueprints from the 1997 original. The set of the house in the 2007 American remake has the same proportions as that of the 1997 set.
As of 2017, this is the only film directed by Michael Haneke to not have had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
All exterior shots were filmed in Long Island, NY. All interior shots were filmed on a set designed and constructed as an exact replica of the original house used in the 1997 version.