Synopsis
Rebellious teen Amy defies her parents by going to a trashy carnival that has pulled into town. In tow are her boyfriend, Buzz, and their friends Liz and Richie. Thinking it would be fun to spend the night in the campy "Funhouse" horror ride, the teens witness a murder by a deformed worker wearing a mask. Locked in, Amy and her friends must evade the murderous carnival workers and escape before it leaves town the next day.
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Cast
- Elizabeth BerridgeAmy Harper
- Cooper HuckabeeBuzz Dawson
- Kevin ConwayThe Barker
- Largo WoodruffLiz Duncan
- Miles ChapinRichie Atterbury
- Jeanne AustinMrs. Harper
- Jack McDermottMr. Harper
- Shawn CarsonJoey Harper
- David CarsonGeek
- Sonia ZominaBag Lady
Recommendations
- 80
IGN
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. - 75
The A.V. Club
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. - 70
Time Out
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. - 60
The New York Times
Mr. Hooper almost persuades us that he is up to more than just gore, creepiness and trauma. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
While certainly not as interesting or accomplished as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Funhouse is a cut above the average slasher film. - 50
Variety
Devotees of director Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre will be particularly disappointed with the almost total lack of shocks and mayhem. - 37
Washington Post
The Funhouse begins with a lamely facetious reprise of the shower sequence from Psycho and slides steadily downhill there. [18 Mar 1981, p.B4]
