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- 1981
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
- 1981
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
Summary Four teenage friends spend the night in a carnival funhouse and are stalked by a deformed man in a Frankenstein mask.
Directed By: Tobe Hooper
Written By: Lawrence J. Block
- 1981
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
- 1981
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
The Funhouse
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7.8
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Summary Four teenage friends spend the night in a carnival funhouse and are stalked by a deformed man in a Frankenstein mask.
Directed By: Tobe Hooper
Written By: Lawrence J. Block
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
56
43% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
56
43% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Despite all the cinematic thievery and homage, The Funhouse manages to stand on its own as an eerie, slow-brewing slasher that builds quite a bit of effective tension and dread leading into the more generic final act.
Hooper doesn’t entirely escape the rote business of semi-regular mutilations and impalings, but The Funhouse succeeds in updating a monster from the Universal pantheon and setting it loose in the type of traveling death trap that’s been haunting small towns forever.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 76 User Ratings
7.8
86% Positive
65 Ratings
65 Ratings
3% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
12% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 76 User Ratings
7.8
86% Positive
65 Ratings
65 Ratings
3% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
12% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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A Movie that has a great setting and atmosphere and lastly, very great ideas.
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It's rare that any film follows through its chosen themes with such attention to detail, much less leavening the package with a truly anarchic blend of black humour.
Mr. Hooper almost persuades us that he is up to more than just gore, creepiness and trauma.
Devotees of director Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre will be particularly disappointed with the almost total lack of shocks and mayhem.
While certainly not as interesting or accomplished as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Funhouse is a cut above the average slasher film.
The Funhouse begins with a lamely facetious reprise of the shower sequence from Psycho and slides steadily downhill there. [18 Mar 1981, p.B4]
A good popcorn horror. I sat there and ate food whilst this scary movie took me on a hellish night. The main girl is pretty and the main monster hideous. It works really well. The early parts of the movie seemed a little dull in places and there weren't enough killings but it was gruesome with some shocks.
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The Funhouse (1981)
Sinopsis:
En un carnaval, cuatro adolescentes son perseguidos por un monstruo al pasar la noche en la "la casa del terror".
Opinión:
Sabiendo que esta película está dirigida por el mismo que dirigió La Masacre de Texas (1974) y Poltergeist (1982) mis expectativas aquí eran un poco mas altas por sobre la media y me llevé una tremenda decepción. De acuerdo a lo que acabo de ver, siento que quisieron mezclar el terror psicológico con el slasher, en lo personal aquí esa combinación no da un buen resultado, ya que tiene demasiado relleno innecesario, dura 95 minutos y las cosas recién empiezan a tomar forma después de los 60 minutos, dejando atrás contenido olvidable que no aporta absolutamente nada, pudo haber sido el segmento de alguna antología, así se habría aprovechado mejor el contenido que realmente vale un poco la pena, en fin, no fue lo que esperaba, no me gustó.
No todo es malo, ya que la banda sonora acompaña bien los pocos momentos que valen la pena y la producción y dirección están a la altura de lo que Tobe Hooper hizo en las películas que mencioné previamente, nada más que decir, decepción total.
Valoración:
1.5 de 5
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Production Company
Universal Pictures,
Mace Neufeld Productions
Release Date Mar 13, 1981
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Something is alive in the funhouse...something that has the form of a human, but not the face...something that feeds off the flesh and blood of young innocents...
