558:(1960). Hooper said that the opening scene "immediately you know you're watching a genre picture. In particular, too, it helped make the film a little safe. And I wanted that. Because I wanted the color and the fantasy, to build up to the moment where this person is wearing a Frankenstein mask is actually the strange anomaly".
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gave the film a middling review, noting: "At times, in fact, Mr. Hooper almost persuades us that he is up to more than just gore, creepiness and trauma. He has photographed a carnival - freak show, girly show, grifters and geeks -with a sense of style. The carnival is a small vision of middle-America
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It's a birth-defect type monster. After I started thinking about it for a while, I felt real guilty about making that deformity a monster. It's so easy to take horror straight from nature, because there are some pretty horrifying real things. I just didn't feel right about making it a straight freak,
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doesn't trade on gratuitous and graphic gore, but it doesn't have to. In little ways and using the traditional tried and true devices of the genre ... it skillfully heightens expectations nicely evokes the chiller of a bygone era as it pays respect to
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liked the film and gave it a positive review. He also cited it as one of his "guilty pleasures" in a 1987 show, giving the film credit for having an interesting story, creative direction, and even a somewhat sympathetic villain.
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money, Buzz knows it is too late since they are now in danger. Conrad stalks the funhouse to eliminate any witnesses and heckles
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was specifically praised for bringing style and suspense to what could have been a standard early-1980s blood and gore-focused horror film, and his work here was largely responsible for him getting the job of directing the
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787:) Hooper, ought to have moved on to better things, he is the master of this gore-and-sadism genre... The film features an excruciatingly tense final confrontation. Alex Keneas of
536:(1974). Williams further posits that the "carnival world" which Amy enters acts as a liberating, unrepressed counter to the restricted nature of her home life with her family.
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s review of the film was similarly mixed: "For all the elegance of photography, pic has nothing in particular up its sleeves, and devotees of director Tobe Hooper’s
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1563:"Video Nasties: The Funhouse"
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1617:"The Funhouse [DVD]"
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