The Funhouse

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<div> <B>1981/Color/96 Min./MCA Home Video & Universal City Studios, Inc./</B></div> <div> <B>Rate</B><B>d R </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director..........Tobe Hooper (</B><I><B>Poltergeist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre & 2</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.....Larry Block</B></div> <div> <B>Music.............John Beal</B></div> <div> <B>Producers......Derek Power & Steven Bernhardt</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producers.....Mace Neufeld & Mark Lester</B></div> <div> <B>Special effects by</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>The Barker......Kevin Conway (Gettysburg, Ramblin' Rose)</B></div> <div> <B>Not Available...Cooper Huckabee (</B><I><B>Night Eyes</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>                Miles Chapin (</B><I><B>Bless the Beasts and the Children</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>                Largo Woodruff (</B><I><B>Bill, Coward of the County</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>                Sylvia Miles (</B><I><B>Midnight Cowboy, The Sentinal</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>                William Finley (</B><I><B>Eaten Alive, Phantom of the Paradise</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>                Elizabeth Berridge (</B><I><B>Amadeus, When the Party's Over</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>                Wayne Doba</B></div> <div> <B>                Shawn Carson (</B><I><B>Something Wicked This Way Comes</B></I><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Some funhouse. Kids have more fun at Camp Crystal Lake. Slick. Amy has been a good girl for two long and has picked this evening to go out with the wrong kind of boy. Bad timing. Excellent score. Nice soliloquy in which father tells his son he doesn't want him on display like his brother Tad. When Liz wounds the attendant, the misshapen thing's resulting frenzy is frightening. The mutant is pretty scary, and once the stalking begins, the funhouse will have you jumping. The film just flies from start to finish. . </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: While a gloved hand manipulates the objects in a room filled with masks and knives, a girl takes a shower. A mask is donned and the intruder heads toward the shower. But it's just Joey. She chases him into his room and tells him no carnival tonight and she's going to get him back. Father, who's watching the bride of Frankenstein with mom over a few tumblers of whiskey warns Amy away from the carnival, it's the same one associated with the killing of two little girls. She says she's going to the movies with Buzz, who works in a filling station. Buzz scoffs at her father's idea that the carnival could be dangerous. They pick up Liz and Richie, Buzz recounting an amusing story about the torture of a duck, and it's off to the carnival for some teen fun. The first date with Buzz is off on the wrong foot. The impish Joey sneaks out of the house. Buzz keeps pushing the "dancing duck" story, but Amy isn't particularly amused. However, the carnival atmosphere covers a number of sins. A bag lady comes into the bathroom and tells the girls God is watching them. Joey has a run in with a lout with a shotgun. Amy is fascinated by the barker hawking his two headed cow. In the back room, there's a mutated human fetus. The fun house barker does a good job entrancing Amy. Joey arrives at the carnival. It looks for a moment as though the magician's performance has gone awry. The kids smoke some marijuana out behind the tent and then it's on to the Cobra. Next is the fortune teller. The kids scoff as Amy gets her fortune told. A tall dark stranger will enter her life and change it. X seems to have fallen for the loutish Buzz. The kids sneak around to see the strip tease for free through a hole. The kids decide to stay over night in the fun house. Joey locates the others as they enter the fun house. Joey waits for them to emerge, but only empty cars come out. Joey wanders around the carnival as the last stragglers leave, but there's no sign of the teens. He decides they can only have hidden in the funhouse. The kids watch the fortune teller through the floorboards receiving money from the retarded funhouse attendant for sex. When he isn't satisfied, they watch as he strangles her. They decide that the fun's over and attempt to escape. They pass through the attendant's chamber where the dead fortune teller lies, but the door is locked. Richie takes takes the opportunity to rob their cash box. The barker, the attendant's father, is not pleased with the mess he's left. He decides to blame it on the locals. When he finds the money missing, he is outraged, but a lighter falling to the floor from above, tells him who has stolen the money provides the the locals to pin the murder on.  Joey has a run-in with the misshapen attendant and is grabbed by some carnival workers. They see what they think is the attendant coming on one of the cars, but Buzz buries an axe in the wrong recipient. Next Liz goes through a trap door. Joey's parents come to pick him up and Amy sees them but they can't hear her calling to them. The misshapen attendant then comes to get Liz who is stuck in the ventilation shaft. She buries the knife in him to little effect. The Barker corners Amy and Buzz and a fight ensues. When the mutant son returns, he's mad. The remaining kids decide this funhouse is no fun at all.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>