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The Funhouse (Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]
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Genre | Horror/Slasher Flicks |
Format | Widescreen, Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Anamorphic, NTSC |
Contributor | Jack McDermott, Shawn Carson, Cooper Huckabee, Tobe Hooper, Elizabeth Berridge, Jeanne Austin |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 36 minutes |
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This non-stop thrill ride of frights and chills follows a group of four teenagers who decide to spend the night in a travelling carnival's funhouse. When a deformed man begins brutally murdering them one-by-one, they find themselves in a desperate struggle for survival.
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Though by no means a classic on par with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse (1981) is an atmospheric thriller that offers a frequently effective mix of suspense and shock that bucks the body-count aesthetic of the then-current slasher trend. Hooper puts his cards on the table early in the picture by offering a tongue-in-cheek homage to both Psycho and Halloween, which serve as the boundary markers for the territory in which the picture operates. That translates into a more relaxed pace in the film's first third, which follows a quartet of teens at a rural carnival, as well as attention to detail which heightens the inherent creepiness of the location, which is rife with seedy figures (including character actor Kevin Conway as three different but equally louche barkers) and unsettling animatronic attractions. Hooper also draws from both pictures for his main antagonist, a disfigured man named Gunther (Wayne Doba) in a Frankenstein mask who stalks the quartet after they are locked into the funhouse after closing time. It's to the director's credit that Gunther comes across as both implacable and pitiable at the same time, an agreeable wrinkle on the standard slasher archetype that further helps to set The Funhouse apart from the '80s-era horror crowd. Differences such as these also keep the film feeling fresh and inventive in a way that many psycho-thrillers from the same period fail to retain; the end result is a horror effort worth revisiting for veteran genre fans and a recommended visit for first-time viewers. Shout Factory's Blu-ray presentation, which is part of its '80s horror retrospective Scream Factory imprint, looks gorgeous and vastly improves the film's often-muddy visuals. Extras include a new commentary track with Hooper moderated by director Tim (2001 Maniacs) Sullivan which touches on production history and numerous creative decisions, as well as interviews with Conway, executive producer Mark L. Lester, composer John Beal, and the late, much admired character actor William Finley, who plays carnival magician Marco the Magnificent, and is featured in an audio interview from 2005. Six scenes that were deleted from the theatrical release and later added to the broadcast television version are also included, as are the original trailer, four TV spots, and a quarter of radio ads. --Paul Gaita
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.6 ounces
- Item model number : 25646597
- Director : Tobe Hooper
- Media Format : Widescreen, Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Anamorphic, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 36 minutes
- Release date : October 16, 2012
- Actors : Elizabeth Berridge, Shawn Carson, Jeanne Austin, Jack McDermott, Cooper Huckabee
- Studio : SHOUT! FACTORY
- ASIN : B008HUSFYS
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #21,658 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,085 in Horror (Movies & TV)
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Not knowing much about Tobe Hooper at the time as I only knew him for Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I had no real idea what I was in for. Granted reading the back of the VHS case helped a little bit though. Watching proved to be quite a blast all the same.
One thing that I love about this movie using a local carnival as the setting where our 4 main characters find trouble beyond anything that they could've ever pondered. The lovely lights of the carnival at night, the fun and interesting shows and games that they partake in, one of them including a magician using a Dracula theme for his show, them getting high and getting into trouble, the mounting suspense to the movie taking it's time both carefully and collectively to get to the horror element and also to develop the characters, the use of the carnival has it's creepy and mysterious side where any kind of danger could be lurking and hiding utilizing both the ample hiding places and the nighttime darkness adds to that, finally it's really cool to pick such a fun setting such as a carnival.
The writing was straight up top notch where teenagers, grownups, and kids all say and do things that one would expect them to say and do. Simple character study element.
The acting was no nonsense and everyone got right into character and delivered performances that are in no way awkward or over the top plus their performances totally fuel this movie, bar-none. Lots of kudos goes to Elizabeth Berridge, especially. Besides being completely gorgeous and incredibly hot she puts in a very professional performance and best of all she gets to plan a beautiful/sexy final girl without being cheesy or dopey. Don't get me wrong I accept that as par for the course when it comes to any victim in a slasher but still it's nice to have a break from that once in a while. Though everyone was good in this movie, especially Elizabeth.
There's one scene of great nudity.
My only criticism of this movie is the monster doesn't have a name. You would think if he has a father they would give him a name as well. Great makeup though and the monster is effectively, nightmarishly ugly as well.
Also it was great to have characters that I actually care about and I wanna see survive for a change. Again it's imperative that you care about the final and main character and typically par for the course that you don't care(or care very little) about the supporting characters but once in a while it's a nice break to care about them all.
The movie is slow going for the first hour, and then things pick up from there. This provides a slow build up of the tension, which I enjoyed. Basically you have a small group of teenagers who decide to spend the night in a carnival funhouse, and most don't live to regret it. There are some thrilling/scary moments, but the movie is more low key than The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The gore is very limited, and a lot of it is off screen, but as a choice of direction, I thought it was better that way, for this movie. The settings are very effective, using natural lighting in most scenes, giving the movie a gritty feel. The actors, I feel, did an effective job in portraying their characters, giving them a little more depth than what we used to in these types of movies. The one minor issue I had was I thought the monster make up might have been a little over the top, in that I thought it would have been more effective had it been toned down a notch. The monster, by the way, is the son of a carnival worker, and is very disfigured to the point of being grotesque. I am not giving away anything here, as we learn this about midpoint in the movie, and it's not a shocking revelations or anything.
While this movie shared many elements of other horror movies, teenagers, creepy location, psycho killer, it rises above it's peers somewhat in the gritty realism. Again, I want to stress that this movie is slow going through the first hour, but was worth it to me for the last half hour.