10/12/15 – day twelve of thirty-one days of horror!
Tobe Hooper returns to this year’s list with The Funhouse,
a lesser respected but worthy entry in the 80’s slasher boom. There’s
nothing creepier than carnies, and no film captures the caked-on
scumminess of the carnival experience like this one. The premise is
simple – some teens hide out in a carnival funhouse after closing and
are rightfully stalked by a drooling mutant in a Frankenstein mask, but
the depraved depths that Hooper takes the story goes far beyond your
usual stalk n’ slash. A great reminder that the charming street fair you
enjoy once a year is just a facade hiding a nightmarish underworld and
you should never, ever be caught there after closing time.
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