Elizabeth Berridge, Jack McDermott, Jeanne Austin
Four teenage friends spent the night in a carnival funhouse and are stalked by a deformed man in a frankenstein mask.
DVD Release Date: October 19, 1999
Stats: 252 reviews
"The Funhouse" makes for a nice horror film filled with seedy and creepy carnival atmosphere. Great story premise of having a group of teens daring to spend the night in a Funhouse.The buildup with them walking through the carnival has clever foreshadowing. Once the fair shuts do...( read more)
A fun splatter flick sporting a great theme, The Funhouse is an enjoyable, atmospheric romp through '80s stalk-and-kill slasher territory. It's a bit slow getting started, and the kills could definitely have used a bit of blood, but overall it's a strong genre entry that should ...( read more)
The Funhouse is a great little campy, fun, atmospheric horror flick. This is another popcorn flick with a good old Halloween holiday feel to it.
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"Against her father's orders, Amy goes to a sleazy traveling carnival with her new boyfriend Buzz, her best friend Liz, ...( read more)
Not bad. Welll acted and directed but takes to long to take off, yawn! The slasher flix starts at the last 25 minutes the rest o the movie is just blah, blah, blah.
Of "Death Proof," Tarantino said something to effect that the Slasher film is such a definite form, that if you divert from it a little bit, you're in the middle of deconstructing/dumping the whole thing. The Fun House makes an interesting case study of that theory. In this one, ...( read more)
Not the best, but still enjoyable with a voyeuristic feel. Dark Rides are scary. :60 min of kids trapped in a trailer is pushing it.
Creepy at times, but it's so difficult to see what's going on thanks to the poor lighting. Still, if you like horror films it's worth seeing.
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