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Producer...Barry Allen</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects and Make-up by Dennis Pike & Shonagh Jabour</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Grandma..............Kay Hawtry</B></div> <div> <B>Heather.................Lesleh Donaldson (</B><I><B>Happy Birthday to Me</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Mr. Doyle..............Barry Morse (</B><I><B>Asylum, The Changeling, Space 1999</B></I><B>-TV)</B></div> <div> <B>Rick......................Dean Garbett</B></div> <div> <B>Billy Hibbs............Stephen Miller (</B><I><B>Home is Where the Hart Is</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Joe.......................Alphred Humphreys</B></div> <div> <B>Florie...................Peggy Mahon</B></div> <div> <B>Harry....................Harvey Atkin (</B><I><B>Meatballs</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Sheriff..................Bob Warner</B></div> <div> <B>James Chalmers..Jack van Evera</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Although low-key in approach, this film manages to combine a steady pace with solid acting and direction, resulting in a decent mood piece. Whereas it won't make you scream, a former funeral home makes a fine setting for a horror movie. Regrettably, the development of Ma's religious involvement remains a strange sideshow, a symptom of her other obsessions and the black cat motif although a familiar crutch goes nowhere. "Funeral Home" borrows liberally from both Psycho and William Faulkner's short story A Rose for Miss Emily.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Heather is greeted by a black cat on the bridge to the small town of Northampton where her grandmother Mrs. Chalmers as in "Chalmer's Embalmers" is turning her funeral home into a "tourist home". Rick the local boy gives her a lift to her relatives but doesn't think it's a good idea to turn that scary place into a hostel. The Porsche of the real estate developer fellow who's been missing for two weeks shows up in a haystack. He'd been around four times, trying to buy the funeral home. Joe, the local boy turned cop and Rick's brother is struggling to investigate the case in a town that treats him like a kid. Undaunted, he investigates every clue, each of which leads him back to the funeral home. He had planned to move the cemetery but Pa wouldn't like that according to Ma, who among other obsessions likes to make tea and talk about Pa.. It becomes apparent that Grandma's life-style may not jibe with that of the guests as they smoke and argue while she listens to "Onward Christian Soldiers". From the voices and the comings and goings it becomes apparent that someone is in the basement who does not want Heather staying there. Heather is starting to wonder who Grandma talks to down there, but the door is kept padlocked. In the meantime, the guests, Mrs. and Mr. Browning all of whom are obnoxious,as well as living in sin are being dumped into the quarry during a drunken makeout session. Grandma is very concerned about Heather dating at her age. Heather is concerned about the voices in the cellar. In a discussion with Mr. Davis, Ma explains of Dads commitment to the embalming profession and how he died a few years back. She seems to have a problem with the timing of Dad's death or with her mastery over tense. Rick, a local hunk, and Heather decide to snoop around through the garage, "where the bodies were brought in", but are warned by Grandma, "You must never go down in the cellar, do you understand?"  Rick  relates that as a child, he and his friend were tossed down into the embalming room by Gramps, who was an unhappy man who had a drinking problem. It seems Mr. Davis is not only a guest fisherman but is staying to investigate the disappearance of his wife. Granny acts like Gramps is still alive. Rick says Gramps ran off with another woman while Grandma was hospitalized due to a nervous breakdown while Gramma was in the mental institution. When Mr. Davis confronts Grandma with his findings, Mr. Browning is reported missing, and a swimmer bumps into Mrs. Browning, Joe is sent to investigate and the final showdown is on. Mrs. Chalmers will not tolerate vicious gossip about her husband, whose memory she has so tenderly preserved.</B></div> <div> <B>Who killed the obnoxious guests? Was it the handyman, who is not only dangerously simple, but has a motive in that Mrs. Browning taunted him? And what about Mr. Davis?</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>