Review of The Funhouse (1981) by Mike H — 14 Mar 2011
Eerie and unsettling early 80's horror-chiller effectively directed by Tobe Hooper ("The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"-), detailing the terror-filled events that befall a small group of teens after they get the not-so-bright idea of spending the night in the delapidated funhouse of a sleazy and creepy carnival that has stopped at their small town.
To their dismay, they find that they are being followed throughout the labyrinthine subterranean bowels of the attraction by a hideous, albino, cleft-headed, cow-faced, slobbering mutant with salacious and murderous thoughts on his mind.
The four principle actors do a great job of creating realistic and very-likable characters, and there are also some fine character folk on hand--Kevin Conway as the slobovian-father of the homicidal horror, William Finley as a booze-soaked magician, and my favorite floozy, Sylvia Miles, as the whorish fortune-teller Madame Zena, one of the monster's several unfortunate victims.
An original and very different horror offering from the decade that mostly brought us an endlessly-nauseating supply of pedantic Slasher-Trash.
This review of The Funhouse (1981) was written by Mike H on 14 Mar 2011.
The Funhouse has generally received mixed reviews.
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