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27th August 2017, 10:11 PM
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 The Funhouse [1981]
The Funhouse [1981] I had only just watched Funhouse again the other week,and since it was still in reaching distance I decided to spin it again in honour of the late great Mr Hooper.Now I know this one splits the fans,you either love it or hate it,and im firmly on the side of loving it.Starting with its Halloween pastiche and a goofy tribute to Psycho with a rubber knive and its peeping tom of a youngster as tries to scare his older sister in the shower,which totally back fires as she lambastes him with the threat of revenge,(something which comes back to haunt him later on). Its prime 80's slasher (if rather bloodless) as our four teens freak out at the side show carnival's which include two headed cows,babies in jars and some dancing ladies who have seen better days.But hey lets hide inside the Funhouse and have sex,which is all well and good just a shame about all the inbreeding and hideously deformed son of the carny and the fortune telling Sylvia Miles as Madame Zena who also dabbles in prostitution. Its all darkly comic and perverse,the main carnival barker Kevin Conway plays several different characters hinting not so subtly that there may be a history of inbreeding amongst the family.Ive always enjoyed this ever since those hazy days of video rental,from its crazy characters to its by the numbers format,one jock,one virgin,one nerd and a slightly slutty one.I always felt sorry for the horror loving kid,Shawn Carson as Joey Harper,as his night starts badly and steadily gets worse,not to mention his alcoholic parents who show an alarming lack of parental care for there youngest.I know its not the fans favourite but this and Eaten Alive (Death Trap) I find both immensely entertaining and somewhat disturbing in some places.
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27th August 2017, 10:29 PM
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I'll have to watch The Funhouse again soon. That's what this place does. Makes you want to revisit films you originally didn't like.
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27th August 2017, 10:31 PM
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Isn't Death Wish 3 a Cannon film then ?  Exemplary as always FT!! anytime is Halloween 3 time  Night Train To Inverness (1960, Ernest Morris) When hubby Norman Woodland 'kidnaps' his son Dennis Waterman  Sylvia Harris has no choice but to call in the filth (Valentine Dyall). At the heart of this film is the British disease. If Sylvia's mother could only shut her trap for a minute to give the poor girl time to think etc. Norm absconds with help from a blonde called Marion Crane ! Busy year ahem .... Plus as a time capsule tis priceless. Smoking in an enclosed space with a sick child. Smoking indoors at all  An absolute find even if the Pegasus dvd looked like arse at points
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27th August 2017, 10:47 PM
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I rate all the Death Wish films. They've been staples of my film collecting since the beginning.
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27th August 2017, 11:01 PM
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27th August 2017, 11:03 PM
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Don't tell SymbioticFunction though. keirarts and Inspector Abberline like this. |
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27th August 2017, 11:10 PM
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keirarts likes this.
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27th August 2017, 11:13 PM
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27th August 2017, 11:18 PM
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27th August 2017, 11:27 PM
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Whoa! You mean Winner and Bronson weren't excellent? Dude, that's bogus. yep, i can see why Bronson was aloof. keirarts and Inspector Abberline like this. |
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