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Summary: new universal dvd review!
Review: the funhouse has been out before on goodtimes back in 99, the first time ever the funhouse was put out in 2.35 widescreen. The transfer wasnt bad, but had alot of white specs and dirt. The new release from universal is the way to go, it is a great improvement over the last. The transfer looks stunning, like it could have came out today. The only thing is that chapters 1 and 2 look a little grainy and color faded. But the rest looks super. No white specs or dirt. and the transfer looks clean. and this time as an extra you get a trailer. which was missing the last time..
Rating: 
Summary: the best and most scary movie I have ever seen
Review: This movie is great. Actually, Halloween is just as scary and as good, so they tie. But this movie is terrifying. And it has a really dark feel to it, also. After I watched this, I didn't feel like talking to anyone for like 3 days! I just walked around, thinking about that extremely dark and creepy atmosphere, how much I think Tobe Hooper is amazing, how much I wanted to be like him and make a great movie like The Funhouse. Oh yeah, and the lead is one of the hottest people I have ever seen. And there is nudity! And you get to see a rad Frankenstein(1931, the only good ones were made in the 30's) poster and get a sample of The Bride of Frankenstein. Yayyy!! The carnival makes a horrifically terrific setting and can creep the hell out of you. So, if you want to see one hell of a scary, terrific horror flick, check this out. Don't check it out, but it. Actually, sorry, one more thing, the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is also tied with these. Have a horrific horror marathon, and watch those movies and this one 3 in a row(if you can stand the horror), and watch more horror movies if you have time. Oh yeah, and the book by Dean Koontz with the same title as this movie is nothing like it, it is f**king boring. Check out Stephen King instead, or Tick Tock by Dean Koontz.
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Summary: There are no jokes in this funhouse . . .
Review: To begin, Tobe Hooper is one of my all-time favourite horror movie directors. From his raw debut shocker THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE to the Spielberg-friendly spookfest POLTERGEIST, Hooper has always managed to raise a fanboy warmth in my heart when one of his new movies is released. THE FUNHOUSE is a minor work in his canon, which benefits from great make-up effects from Craig Reardon/Rick Baker and Hoopers' own strong visual directorial style. The actual script is pretty lame, with four teenagers sneaking into a funhouse for an aftershow scare. They are quickly dispatched by a deformed creature in the most routinest of fashions. The scares are handled well and the excellently spooky cinematography benefits the look and feel of the production. The movie itself echoes an older style of horror film that at that time (the early to mid 80s) seemed to be unfashionable as movie theatres were littered with the likes of FRIDAY THE 13th and the next splatter epic that could outdo the last (I'm not saying that was a bad thing in itself, as Hooper himself returned to gory horror with his own underrated TEXAS CHAINSAW sequel). The cast provide the usual teen-kill fodder, and the main villain (a strange but interesting make-up creation) is always good to look at in this atmospheric chiller that falls short of Hoopers' other work but in itself is an entertaining horror flick that delivers the spooky goods even if a chainsaw isn't involved . . .
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Summary: boring......way too slow
Review: Tobe hooper's funhouse did not deliver anything close to the terror he usually puts on screen. Infact, this movie was pretty boring, for the first hour and ten minutes, nothing happens. Four teenagers explore the carnival, and finally they reach the funhouse, they steal some money from the family owners and they get chased around. The only thing cool was the make up effects, the gimp who tried to portray leatherface looked cool but it was too repeatitive. His screaming and cries didn't capture the same mentally disabled leatherface. Throughout the movie you can see how this film relates to the Texas chainsaw massacre but it doesn't come close to the sick and disguting terror. Even the deaths weren't that great either, the gimp who wears the frankenstein mask gets electrocuted at the end. All in all the the gimp looks cool, but the movie itself is very boring, and the deaths were pretty lame. Give it a shot and rent this!
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Summary: good, but not as good as what it could have been
Review: When Tobe Hopper made The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) he made one of the
all time classics of horror cinema. The problem he was faced with was how to follow
it? With the possible exception of this films none of his subsequent films have come
remotely near The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
The movie tells the story of a group of teenagers Buzz (Cooper Huckabee), Richie
(Miles Chapin), Liz (Largo Woodruff) and the final girl Amy (Elizabeth Berridge)
who go to the funfair. At the funfair they decide to stay in the funhouse overnight.
While they are in the funhouse they oversee a murder being committed. It was done
by the hideous son of The Barker (Kevin Conway). The killer is only known as the
monster (Wayne Doba). The fact that they viewed the murder is revealed when Richie
drops his lighter and it is found by the barker. The barker having trapped them in the
funhouse then sending in his son to get rid of the people who witnessed the murder.
Tobe Hopper, in spite of the dross which he has sometimes produced, is a talented
director. In the course of this film he shows sporadic flashes of his talent. At the
beginning there is an amusing spoof of the opening of Halloween (1978) and the
shower scene in Psycho (1960). The climatic chase of Berridge by the monster is well
done. The performance are good and although there is little characterisation the
viewer does identify with them. Berridge also looks rather like the heroine of Dario
Argento's Suspira (1977) Jessica Harper. The whole situation is a pretty nightmarish
one and Hopper exploits this well. The pace is rather slow though. Viewers brought
up upon the gore feasts and fast action that are Friday the 13th (1980) and its sequels
with find the pace slow. It is like George A Romero's modern vampire movie Martin
(1978) in that regard. The music provided by John Beal is good as well. Incidentally
there was a book tie-in to the film which was written by a Owen West. This was a pen
name for the prolific horror writer Dean Kootz. The film was released at the height of
the slasher film boom and is a good example of how the slasher film would go down
hill in the mid 80s. There is little actual killings, which is the main reason why people
go to these films. It did however have the muscle of a major studio behind it. In this
case it was Universal. In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Hopper brilliantly subverted
the idea of the family and during times in the film he seems to return to this. The
relationship between the monster and the barker is similar to the one between the
head of the family and Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
The Funhouse is not another Friday the 13th (1980), but it does not seem to want to be. Rather it is a slow some what stately slasher film sharing some similarities with the
superior Hell Night (1981).
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Summary: PERFECT SCARY MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: with "FUNHOUSE" tobe hooper does what so many other directors wish they could do & what he does best & thats carry a movie with pure atmosphere!!! like "TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE" this movie is not filled with gore & blood its filled with an unsettled reality making it feel like a real life situation just like "T.C.M."!!!! this is what tobe hooper is best at & in this flick it realy shows!!! "FUNHOUSE" is truly one of the greatest/underrated horror movies of all time & anyone who thinks its not scary obviously doesn't watch horror movies for the right reasons wich is to bring you right back to your childhood & fellow horror fans thats exactly what tobe hooper's "FUNHOUSE" does!!! & then some!!! i love this flick its one of my very favs & i think every true horror fan should have it in there collection!!!!! later on fellow horror fans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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