Saw this at a drive-in when it first came out. Funny story, after this movie finished, there was a second one to follow in a double feature night. It was then we noticed in the car to our left was a friend we knew from high school and he was with a girl we didn't recognize. When she left the car to go to the lady's room, a buddy popped out of the back of our car and crawled around to the driver's window of our buddy's car, while keeping out of sight. Then, he reached in through the driver's window and grabbed him. You never saw so much popcorn fly. We pissed ourselves in laughter. That's what I remember about this movie after almost forty years.
Dean Koontz is a great writer yes, but his book was an adaption of the movie (for purposes of publicity for the film) The film came first and was finished before Koontz even wrote a single word. He then expanded on the book in a rewrite years later.
I saw this for the first time when I slept over at my grandfather's house. He fell asleep while we were watching a different movie that was before Funhouse. Needless to say I didn't get much sleep after I watched it. It's alot of fun now though.
It was actually a pretty good movie for its time (1981). It really helped that it was based on Dean Koontz's book of the same name. Some differences from the book, but overall it worked. Not great, but good.
Did you not hear the part of the video where he pointed out that the book was actually based on the movie it just happened to come out first? Because he did.
I read the book as well and I remember the one part where all four teens-Amy, Buzz, Liz and Richie-are at the carnival, looking at the freaks, including "Victor"(in the book, 25 years before was when her mom used to be the barker Conrad's wife and they had a son together, Victor was his name, whom she had killed on account of how ugly Victor was), in fact, all the while they're looking at Victor's body, which Conrad has kept preserved in a bottle over the past quarter century for all to see at the carnival, Liz suddenly reads the sign Conrad has on display which he wrote 25 years ago-"on the night of August 15, 1955, Victor's mother, Ellen, killed him," and Liz tells Amy jokingly, "Maybe it's your brother, your long lost brother!" But, little did Liz, Richie, or Buzz know that Liz was actually RIGHT--out of ALL the Ellens in the United States, Amy's mother was indeed once the mother of this monster. As for Amy herself, she began to feel as if some supernatual force had led her to this very spot here on earth to discover this very bombshell about her mom. Of course, we can easily infer that Amy almost does put two and two together--with Mama's nutty behavior all these years on strict Catholic upbringing, and perhaps above all, why her mother had said, "You must never have any kids, you don't know WHAT could come out of you!" all because of Ellen having Victor, how it had screwed her up very badly psychologically about how kids would turn out at birth(she worried terribly each time she was pregnant with Amy and with Joey, and was still convinced they each were secretly evil), and as Amy kept staring at her mom's name, "the name Ellen seemed to shine brighter than any of the other words on the sign, even to flash like a warning signal. It HAD to be a coincidence. Otherwise, everything else she had just seen might also come true. Liz might get killed.
@@MrJamieMurph4141969 wow you have quite the memory. Book is definitely better than the film even if only for the details, backstory & character development. I watched this film a couple of months ago and within the first ten minutes I was all “this really reminds me of the dean koontz book” lol.
Clearly the monster thought so too as he ripped her shirt up exposing her mangos before killing her (still touching her chest while killing her by the way)
Yeah, the monster used to give me nightmares. And as far as the stripper thing, apparently that's not such a rare thing. Our county fair had a peep show many years ago that my grandfather used to enjoy going to.
The book was a lot scarier. It actually gave me nightmares. I read it before seeing the movie. In particular, the demonic baby that grows up into a mutated, murdering rapist. That scene where the girl offers herself to the creature to stay alive was SO disturbing! You read her thoughts as the creature brutally violates and kills her, and it spoke a little bit, primitively. Made my skin crawl and I wanted to throw up. It felt like I was there, it really bothered me. Dean Koontz is an AMAZING author. You completely lose yourself when reading his works. I still think he surpasses Steven King.
SunBunz I've read this and several other books by Koontz. I love his books, but "Funhouse"... After I finished it, I got rid of it. It's disturbing enough to make me never want to open it again. But it was compelling enough to make me read to the end. Koontz surpasses Stephen King by a mile.
When I was dating my wife, I told her to pick out any movie she wanted to watch and I'd pay the rental fee. She decided on The Funhouse. I thought she was crazy. But once we started watching it, I realized she had better taste in campy horror films than I thought possible. Good choice.
Great review. Poor Tobe Hooper. He makes one cult classic (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and hits his peak in 1982 with Poltergeist. After that, the quality of his movies just went to hell in a hand basket. I like The Funhouse though. The monster definitely had a creepy look to him.
Lifeforce, Invaders from Mars, Texas Chainsaw Part 2, The Mangler, Night Terrors, and Toolbox Murders are great. I also liked his two Masters of Horror episodes the were surprisingly good.
In the 70s though there were not many overweight people compared to now and fewer obese people. Type 2 diabetes did not exist either and most people were thin, because we had not spent generations eating tons of processed food loaded with tons of carbs, esp. grains, sugar, and other carbs. And we had only begun eating unstable seed oils, so-called vegetable oils, which were not even created to be eaten but to be used for industrial purposes. We should have kept eating real food not processed food.
The only thing that disappoints me in this movie, right before Richie gets hanged, he talked about someone locking him in a closet, I was expecting Amy to do that to Joey at the end.
Good review, saw the movie when released, it's better watching it at a drive-in. One could occupy themselves during the filler times, with other activities.
It's all good, bro. I like Phantom of the Paradise too. ;) Love all your reviews. I don't know how I wasn't a subscriber before now but it has been remedied. Also I'm glad she was over 18 because damn, she doesn't look it and I remember thinking in that scene the first time I saw this a couple years ago that either she looked very young or I'm a bad, bad person.
("The Carnival has come to town, and every one loves the Funhouse, every one is going to have the time of their lives, but not every one will leave with their lives, not after what they see, in the Funhouse, pay to get in, Prey to get out, of the Funhouse - Carnival of Terror"). Back in 1981 I wrote that tag line (Voice Over Narration) for a Trailer for the film, my edit turned out to be "exactly" the same scenes, same running times, in the same order, as the one Thorn EmI also released, which I saw about a year after mine was made, but without my tag lines, There were a few copies of my trailer on VHS tapes which Horror Collectors had, I wonder if any still exist all these years on?.
Dude im so grateful just to get to see this.... People have put trailers but no thanks ya know and then its like barely a minute...cmn....i really apprciate this video and you for putting it especially i thought i was the only person left in the world that even knws about this mvies exisistence. Thank u man....let me knw plese if u know where i can watch it for free the full movie completely free no hassels no charges...GOD BLESS YOU.....😇😇😇😇😇
THANK YOU I bein looking for this movie sense I was around 10 yo I watched the freak show and magician scene on AMC in one of their Halloween marathons and went trick or treating never finished it I'm 20 now
I've seen this before. I didn't remember it was a kid who scared the girl in the shower. I was just thinking that if that happened to me and my other arm was free like hers was, I would have punched the dude in the face. Would have been awkward when I found out it was a kid. : /
just ran across your reviews. nice work dude, but this one i'll have to disagree on. love this movie and a big fan of the slow build up. definitely a classic! :)
+THEMANUC Yeah, isn't this the point of horror movies anyway? All the great classics have these so-called "pointless filler scenes". Jaws, Alien, John Carpenter's The Thing... I mean, come on, isn't that a part of the charm with them anyway?
Yeah, but one thing is being slow and the other just having filler with pointless things. At least in Jaws and Alien we establish things and characters, while here I could remove entire scenes like the fortuneteller and nothing of value would be lost... Mind you, it's doesn't make the film bad, but it's still a flaw.
So at the start of the movie,they rip off,and or pay homage to... The original Halloween,and Psycho... ... ... Now I wanna know if there's gonna be some creepy bastard hiding in a bath tub,or if some random guy gets stuffed into a sleeping bag and smacked against a tree... (watches the rest of the video) ... ... ... I'm not sure what to feel right now...
you joked about the dead baby in a jar, but i went to a sideshow museum at a fair, and they had lots of things like that that were real along with some living attractions also (animals, not people)
In the chemistry lab in my school there were a ton of fetuses in jars for the anatomy class... Obviously I didn't do school in the States... They looked fake...
little Joe reminded me of my little brother who used to make dum pranks, always shouted on him to never repeat the same damn jokes and get back to studying
The group of friends enter the funhouse at the 37 minute mark of the movie and that's where the last roughly 55 minutes of the film takes place. Decker's criticism about the story taking too long to begin it's main conflict doesn't really make any sense. Also, the film is largely intended to highlight just how grimy and shady county fairs and carnies are, the ones i've been going to since the late 80's and even recently have been incredibly similar to the one in this film. Except for the crazy mutated killer carny part.
It makes perfect sense the movie needed to balance the build up and scares the problem is the villain is too generic and the kills are pretty lame in it so it makes the build up pointless
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey The funhouse itself is indirectly the villain, while the barker and Gunther are just it's cronies as they depend on the funhouse to make a living. Notice how other than Liz's death in the fan tunnel, any time a character is killed you can hear the dummies and puppets of the funhouse laugh as if they're in joy of what's happening. Not to mention the final shot of the film of the fat lady laughing "at" Amy as she stumbles out of the funhouse completely traumatized as if mocking her. Richie's death(s) are a surprise and horrific especially as he's going through the funhouse in the cart with the axe in his head, while Liz we can't see what happened to her during her death but then Amy discovers her shredded face/dead body which after so much screentime of her is shocking. Buzz's kill could've been a lot better, apparently he was supposedly to be completely mangled and dripping in blood when the clown mannequin carried him out, instead we just see i think a single gunshot wound. The barker and Gunther's deaths though are horrific.
Maybe the whole movie was just a ploy to have the shower scene at the beginning. Also, consider reviewing "Night Child" from 1972, a movie that has a bit more nudity and is described as "The Omen without the supernatural parts, and bordering on sleaze".
@@willhuey4891 So this comes a little late, but better late than never, right? In the 'Funhouse' novel, it's not Amy's father that's a cultist, but her mother's first husband--Conrad--of which Amy knows nothing about. Conrad is a carnival barker and Satan-worshiper who runs the titular Funhouse, and at the start of the story he finds his wife--Ellen--killing their deformed child--Victor--because she believes he's evil. Conrad vows revenge on Ellen's future children, and eventually he remarries and conceivers a second deformed child--Gunther--who he believes will not only be the instrument of his revenge, but is also the Antichrist. In the novel, Conrad keeps Victor's corpse suspended in a jar of formaldehyde as part of the freak show, which mirrors the scene in the movie. In the end, it's Conrad who lures Amy, her friends, and her brother into the Funhouse where the friends are killed off by Gunther, but Amy eventually manages to kill the monster in much the same way as she does in the film. There's a *ton* more that the novel changes, way more than I have room to mention, but that's the basic long and short of it.
Decker do you remember Friday the 13 That movie had slow scenes in it were not much happens You need the slow scenes to Give the Scary scenes makes more an effect
Not exactly. In Friday's case there was horror elements in between the slow scenes in this movie it takes almost an hour for things to get going and even then the first few Friday films really didn't know what they were doing and only became iconic because of the kills
1:14 As a child of the 70's, people were on the average a healthy weight back then than they are today. So, yea, we had to go to freak shows to see morbidly obese people unlike today when you can just go to Walmart.
You want a movie that's in an amusment park has terrible acting and an odd plot to say the least. then may I suggest KISS meets the phantom of the park, a nostalgic childhood memory for me that one is.
Saw this at a drive-in when it first came out. Funny story, after this movie finished, there was a second one to follow in a double feature night. It was then we noticed in the car to our left was a friend we knew from high school and he was with a girl we didn't recognize. When she left the car to go to the lady's room, a buddy popped out of the back of our car and crawled around to the driver's window of our buddy's car, while keeping out of sight. Then, he reached in through the driver's window and grabbed him. You never saw so much popcorn fly. We pissed ourselves in laughter. That's what I remember about this movie after almost forty years.
It's nice to see the original Shaggy from Scooby Doo got a job after the cartoon.
r/rareinsults.
@@MatthewDiLeva i see it
@Meat wad I know it’s a joke. I put r/rareinsults because people normally do that when they see a comment that looks like an insult.
The book was written by Dean Koontz, who became one of the horror genre's best writers--that's why it's good.
The book is much better than the movie..They should have stuck to the book. It explains everything
Dean Koontz is a great writer yes, but his book was an adaption of the movie (for purposes of publicity for the film) The film came first and was finished before Koontz even wrote a single word. He then expanded on the book in a rewrite years later.
@@lillylazer429 - the book came after the film. and nothing needed explaining - It was all there, you just have to look.
@@allirogorilla Whoops yea you're correct my mistake. I wish they would have explained where the monster came from.
And being a Dean Koontz fan, I would agree to that(raises bottle of water in air to salute).
The monster scared the ever loving SHIT out of me as a kid!
me too kinda looks like AL SHARPTON !!!!!! (black dude who love early 80 horror movies )
Um, Al Sharpton's a reverend, dude. Racist.
he's not a monster
Hewy Toonmore Same
Dude I had the exact same reaction when I saw the shower scene. I thought she was 14 or something when I first saw her
I never knew carnivals had strippers.......
strange....
I don't doubt that's a factual error.
Their behind the black cloth
Maybe years back in seedy areas
I saw this for the first time when I slept over at my grandfather's house. He fell asleep while we were watching a different movie that was before Funhouse.
Needless to say I didn't get much sleep after I watched it. It's alot of fun now though.
No shit Joey's growing up to be a killer, look how Michael Myers started out!
It was actually a pretty good movie for its time (1981). It really helped that it was based on Dean Koontz's book of the same name. Some differences from the book, but overall it worked. Not great, but good.
Did you not hear the part of the video where he pointed out that the book was actually based on the movie it just happened to come out first? Because he did.
Everytime i watch one of your older videos i always think ive got the video on x0.75 speed
Iiiiim decccccckerrrr shhhhhhaaaadoowww
If I'm not mistaken, isn't the girl the half-sister of the monster, since her mother was previously married to the carnival owner guy?
Only in Dean Koontz's book, which is dumb as hell imo
I read the book as well and I remember the one part where all four teens-Amy, Buzz, Liz and Richie-are at the carnival, looking at the freaks, including "Victor"(in the book, 25 years before was when her mom used to be the barker Conrad's wife and they had a son together, Victor was his name, whom she had killed on account of how ugly Victor was), in fact, all the while they're looking at Victor's body, which Conrad has kept preserved in a bottle over the past quarter century for all to see at the carnival, Liz suddenly reads the sign Conrad has on display which he wrote 25 years ago-"on the night of August 15, 1955, Victor's mother, Ellen, killed him," and Liz tells Amy jokingly, "Maybe it's your brother, your long lost brother!" But, little did Liz, Richie, or Buzz know that Liz was actually RIGHT--out of ALL the Ellens in the United States, Amy's mother was indeed once the mother of this monster. As for Amy herself, she began to feel as if some supernatual force had led her to this very spot here on earth to discover this very bombshell about her mom. Of course, we can easily infer that Amy almost does put two and two together--with Mama's nutty behavior all these years on strict Catholic upbringing, and perhaps above all, why her mother had said, "You must never have any kids, you don't know WHAT could come out of you!" all because of Ellen having Victor, how it had screwed her up very badly psychologically about how kids would turn out at birth(she worried terribly each time she was pregnant with Amy and with Joey, and was still convinced they each were secretly evil), and as Amy kept staring at her mom's name, "the name Ellen seemed to shine brighter than any of the other words on the sign, even to flash like a warning signal. It HAD to be a coincidence. Otherwise, everything else she had just seen might also come true. Liz might get killed.
@@MrJamieMurph4141969 wow you have quite the memory. Book is definitely better than the film even if only for the details, backstory & character development.
I watched this film a couple of months ago and within the first ten minutes I was all “this really reminds me of the dean koontz book” lol.
Uh, damn that fortuneteller women or whoever she is, the one who got strangled by the monster was pretty hot.
The Shipper she seemed to have some big knockers.
All these sleazy old hags were in really good shape... They didn't even have a gut...
Clearly the monster thought so too as he ripped her shirt up exposing her mangos before killing her (still touching her chest while killing her by the way)
alejandromolinac lol
no...
Bite your tongue Decker. That opening was perfectly fine. They did a wonderful job... She did a wonderful job.
Yeah, the monster used to give me nightmares. And as far as the stripper thing, apparently that's not such a rare thing. Our county fair had a peep show many years ago that my grandfather used to enjoy going to.
Yup, Hoochie Coochie dancers were a common staple back in the day. It was already a thing of the past by the time I was old enough to go to carnival.
The book was a lot scarier. It actually gave me nightmares. I read it before seeing the movie. In particular, the demonic baby that grows up into a mutated, murdering rapist. That scene where the girl offers herself to the creature to stay alive was SO disturbing! You read her thoughts as the creature brutally violates and kills her, and it spoke a little bit, primitively. Made my skin crawl and I wanted to throw up. It felt like I was there, it really bothered me. Dean Koontz is an AMAZING author. You completely lose yourself when reading his works. I still think he surpasses Steven King.
SunBunz I've read this and several other books by Koontz. I love his books, but "Funhouse"... After I finished it, I got rid of it. It's disturbing enough to make me never want to open it again. But it was compelling enough to make me read to the end. Koontz surpasses Stephen King by a mile.
It’s all opinion but I prefer King. Have either of you read the dark tower series?
I naturally still prefer king tbh.
RUclips Gamer Addict "funhouse is still not even remotely disturbing as the novel version of "It"
Sounds based asf. I need to read this book.
When I was dating my wife, I told her to pick out any movie she wanted to watch and I'd pay the rental fee. She decided on The Funhouse. I thought she was crazy. But once we started watching it, I realized she had better taste in campy horror films than I thought possible. Good choice.
"HEY YOU GUYS"
Ruth? Baby... RUTH?!
Great review. Poor Tobe Hooper. He makes one cult classic (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and hits his peak in 1982 with Poltergeist. After that, the quality of his movies just went to hell in a hand basket. I like The Funhouse though. The monster definitely had a creepy look to him.
Word Unheard i liked the mangler and texas chainsaw 2
Lifeforce, Invaders from Mars, Texas Chainsaw Part 2, The Mangler, Night Terrors, and Toolbox Murders are great. I also liked his two Masters of Horror episodes the were surprisingly good.
In the 70s though there were not many overweight people compared to now and fewer obese people. Type 2 diabetes did not exist either and most people were thin, because we had not spent generations eating tons of processed food loaded with tons of carbs, esp. grains, sugar, and other carbs. And we had only begun eating unstable seed oils, so-called vegetable oils, which were not even created to be eaten but to be used for industrial purposes. We should have kept eating real food not processed food.
The fortune teller does say something of interest.SPOILERS
She tells Amy she will have a long life. Meaning she will survive the movie which she did.
The fat lady in the mu mu is a classic dark ride bit. Well known in the day so it would make perfect sense for Tobe Hooper to use it in an opening.
I rented this movie at Blockbuster when I was a kid lol
Ladies... I played my cards right and I'm proud to say I've never paid to go the bathroom ever since.
7:26 Freak shows displaying live 'Human Oddities' were outlawed in the USA in the 1930's
The only thing that disappoints me in this movie, right before Richie gets hanged, he talked about someone locking him in a closet, I was expecting Amy to do that to Joey at the end.
This is probably my favorite review by him. I don't know why, I've never even seen this movie.
Damn Decker you really do have the best hair wish I had hair like yours.
The BEST HAIR? God bless ya for having plenty ! dx
Good review, saw the movie when released, it's better watching it at a drive-in.
One could occupy themselves during the filler times, with other activities.
Two words: Tobe Hooper
The dealry departed director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre wrote and directed this
He’s a wonderful filmmaker he’s easily in my top 3 filmmakers of all time
Thanks for reviewing this! I remember watching this as a kid in the late 80s/early 90s on Cinemax.
this movie fuck ed me up when I was younger thank you I couldn't remember the name till now
R.I.P. tobe hooper
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the actress who plays "Amy" also play Mozart's wife, Stanze in "Amadeus?"
One and the same.
Yes, indeed, Elizabeth Berridge.
I remember seeing this movie well half way to the end as a kid on TCM...it was tight
It's all good, bro. I like Phantom of the Paradise too. ;) Love all your reviews. I don't know how I wasn't a subscriber before now but it has been remedied.
Also I'm glad she was over 18 because damn, she doesn't look it and I remember thinking in that scene the first time I saw this a couple years ago that either she looked very young or I'm a bad, bad person.
Decker can you do Drive Thru???
Hey, I was actually about to search for a review of that film after watching this review!
That movie is funny as hell
fun fact - Rob Zombie was going to remake this film before doing the Halloween remake but it got scrapped.
this *used* to be a fun house, now it's full of evil clowns
Haha, It's so anti-climactic for your dramatic exit to just be going into a bathroom stall not even 10 feet away from everyone else.
("The Carnival has come to town, and every one loves the Funhouse, every one is going to have the time of their lives, but not every one will leave with their lives, not after what they see, in the Funhouse, pay to get in, Prey to get out, of the Funhouse - Carnival of Terror"). Back in 1981 I wrote that tag line (Voice Over Narration) for a Trailer for the film, my edit turned out to be "exactly" the same scenes, same running times, in the same order, as the one Thorn EmI also released, which I saw about a year after mine was made, but without my tag lines, There were a few copies of my trailer on VHS tapes which Horror Collectors had, I wonder if any still exist all these years on?.
Dude im so grateful just to get to see this.... People have put trailers but no thanks ya know and then its like barely a minute...cmn....i really apprciate this video and you for putting it especially i thought i was the only person left in the world that even knws about this mvies exisistence. Thank u man....let me knw plese if u know where i can watch it for free the full movie completely free no hassels no charges...GOD BLESS YOU.....😇😇😇😇😇
THANK YOU I bein looking for this movie sense I was around 10 yo I watched the freak show and magician scene on AMC in one of their Halloween marathons and went trick or treating never finished it I'm 20 now
I've seen this before. I didn't remember it was a kid who scared the girl in the shower. I was just thinking that if that happened to me and my other arm was free like hers was, I would have punched the dude in the face. Would have been awkward when I found out it was a kid. : /
Sometimes people gotta learn the hard way lol
The monster's face is surprisingly good.
The monsters name is actually Gunther Twibunt.
Your hair is amazing
Who knew Weird Al Yankovic had a son?
Legends of the hidden temple: X-treme!!!!
The makeup effects weren't half bad!
Ah, yes and Rick Baker's monster, of course, steals the show, and still holds up to this day.
1981 was a GREAT year for low-budget Horror!!
I would love to hear of what you think of 1986's Link.
Best hair AND the best reviews!
just ran across your reviews. nice work dude, but this one i'll have to disagree on. love this movie and a big fan of the slow build up. definitely a classic! :)
+THEMANUC Yeah, isn't this the point of horror movies anyway? All the great classics have these so-called "pointless filler scenes". Jaws, Alien, John Carpenter's The Thing... I mean, come on, isn't that a part of the charm with them anyway?
+kurvos Exactly! :)
Yeah, but one thing is being slow and the other just having filler with pointless things. At least in Jaws and Alien we establish things and characters, while here I could remove entire scenes like the fortuneteller and nothing of value would be lost... Mind you, it's doesn't make the film bad, but it's still a flaw.
Well, I have never seen The Funhouse, so I couldn't tell. ^^;
Toe Bay Hooper?
Spoony Bard yes
I hope those abnormal animals were okay. That seemed to be a pretty tame cow and I'd hate it to be hurt.
"Tow-bay Hewp-err"
You should revisit other Hooper classics like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Eaten Alive.
It is funny how decker sounds like he does in more recent videos when you change the speed of this video to 1.25 XD
Thanks for ruining a movie that I used to be genuinely scared of watching
Nice couch man, my mom had one when I was younger !
So at the start of the movie,they rip off,and or pay homage to...
The original Halloween,and Psycho... ... ... Now I wanna know if there's gonna be some creepy bastard hiding in a bath tub,or if some random guy gets stuffed into a sleeping bag and smacked against a tree... (watches the rest of the video) ... ... ... I'm not sure what to feel right now...
Came to this one late, but it's a firm favourite now. Needs more love anyhow, kudos.
The cow was kinda cute
Why does a carnival have strippers?!
Every Circus has a Fun house. I should know.
Please insert the Segal scene "You seen Richie?" during your Ritchie rant.
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s and I’ve been to a lot of carnivals. Not a single one of them had a stripper tent!
"The Monsters" name is actually Gunther Twibunt.
you joked about the dead baby in a jar, but i went to a sideshow museum at a fair, and they had lots of things like that that were real along with some living attractions also (animals, not people)
In the chemistry lab in my school there were a ton of fetuses in jars for the anatomy class... Obviously I didn't do school in the States... They looked fake...
Frizzurd well not babies exactly, stillborn fetuses or some of them were fake.
little Joe reminded me of my little brother who used to make dum pranks, always shouted on him to never repeat the same damn jokes and get back to studying
The group of friends enter the funhouse at the 37 minute mark of the movie and that's where the last roughly 55 minutes of the film takes place. Decker's criticism about the story taking too long to begin it's main conflict doesn't really make any sense. Also, the film is largely intended to highlight just how grimy and shady county fairs and carnies are, the ones i've been going to since the late 80's and even recently have been incredibly similar to the one in this film. Except for the crazy mutated killer carny part.
It makes perfect sense the movie needed to balance the build up and scares the problem is the villain is too generic and the kills are pretty lame in it so it makes the build up pointless
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey The funhouse itself is indirectly the villain, while the barker and Gunther are just it's cronies as they depend on the funhouse to make a living. Notice how other than Liz's death in the fan tunnel, any time a character is killed you can hear the dummies and puppets of the funhouse laugh as if they're in joy of what's happening. Not to mention the final shot of the film of the fat lady laughing "at" Amy as she stumbles out of the funhouse completely traumatized as if mocking her. Richie's death(s) are a surprise and horrific especially as he's going through the funhouse in the cart with the axe in his head, while Liz we can't see what happened to her during her death but then Amy discovers her shredded face/dead body which after so much screentime of her is shocking. Buzz's kill could've been a lot better, apparently he was supposedly to be completely mangled and dripping in blood when the clown mannequin carried him out, instead we just see i think a single gunshot wound. The barker and Gunther's deaths though are horrific.
Pretty much nailed that one.
This is by far your funniest review imo 👍
Great review! I think the book is much better it explains everything
Maybe the whole movie was just a ploy to have the shower scene at the beginning.
Also, consider reviewing "Night Child" from 1972, a movie that has a bit more nudity and is described as "The Omen without the supernatural parts, and bordering on sleaze".
I watched that and it made me respect the Omen remake a little bit more.
Is that Marshall from "Urban Cowboy"?
Nice vid!
The carny is Dennis Fimple from HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES.
wow..waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back!
I have the Funhouse novel, by Dean Koontz, the basis for this movie. It was a lot more graphic.
and also didnt it involve amys father being a cult leader trying to breed the antichrist or some shit and gunther was a failed attempt in the novel.
You weren't listening were you?
@@willhuey4891 So this comes a little late, but better late than never, right?
In the 'Funhouse' novel, it's not Amy's father that's a cultist, but her mother's first husband--Conrad--of which Amy knows nothing about. Conrad is a carnival barker and Satan-worshiper who runs the titular Funhouse, and at the start of the story he finds his wife--Ellen--killing their deformed child--Victor--because she believes he's evil. Conrad vows revenge on Ellen's future children, and eventually he remarries and conceivers a second deformed child--Gunther--who he believes will not only be the instrument of his revenge, but is also the Antichrist. In the novel, Conrad keeps Victor's corpse suspended in a jar of formaldehyde as part of the freak show, which mirrors the scene in the movie. In the end, it's Conrad who lures Amy, her friends, and her brother into the Funhouse where the friends are killed off by Gunther, but Amy eventually manages to kill the monster in much the same way as she does in the film. There's a *ton* more that the novel changes, way more than I have room to mention, but that's the basic long and short of it.
The movie was the basis for the book, it came first.
Who charges for someone to use the restroom?!
i own and long btime ago read the book , never knew the bok was based on the movie instead , wild.
Dave Booshty Your English teacher is crying himself to sleep.
Isn't that Mozart's wife?
Great review!
You Should Review Snakes On A Train. Yes Its An Aslyahm Film I Know
Classic movie!
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Laughed too hard at the cut to the bathroom
Decker do you remember Friday the 13 That movie had slow scenes in it were not much happens You need the slow scenes to Give the Scary scenes makes more an effect
Not exactly. In Friday's case there was horror elements in between the slow scenes in this movie it takes almost an hour for things to get going and even then the first few Friday films really didn't know what they were doing and only became iconic because of the kills
Decker!!!!! Review Escape from tomorrow...pwease
Looks like you really enjoy when she yells NEVER XD
Cool video 👍
I ordered this movie because of this review
This movie scared the crud out of me when I was a kid
Deck, please review the movie "Hell Night" 1981 with Linda Blair. Its almost identical to this movie. Lol
why does this film remind of Texas Chainsaw?
It was directed by the same guy.
1:14 As a child of the 70's, people were on the average a healthy weight back then than they are today. So, yea, we had to go to freak shows to see morbidly obese people unlike today when you can just go to Walmart.
!!!!!!NEVER!!!!!!
I thought that was the necrophilia joke...
And it's Kevin Conway.
You want a movie that's in an amusment park has terrible acting and an odd plot to say the least. then may I suggest KISS meets the phantom of the park, a nostalgic childhood memory for me that one is.