THE FUNHOUSE (a Tobe Hooper film)

THE FUNHOUSE
Pay to get in pray to get out

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Two young couples on a double date go to a mysterious carnival. As a prank they decide to spend the night in the funhouse. When they witness a brutal murder, they suddenly find themselves try to get out alive.
This is a very underated horor movie from 1981. I love the funhouse or darkride, it looks just like the one at the local fair in the 70's


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THE FUN HOUSE TRIVIA

The opening sequence is an homage to both Psycho (1960) and Halloween (1978).

Steven Spielberg asked Tobe Hooper to direct E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) but he turned it down because he was busy on this movie. However Hooper and Spielberg would work together on Poltergeist (1982).

Dean R. Koontz wrote a novelization of the screenplay under the pseudonym Owen West. The book contains a lot of backstory added by Koontz. Because of this, and the fact that the book was released before the movie due to a delay in post production, it is often mistaken that the movie is based on the book, but the book is in fact based on the movie.

The film was briefly banned in the UK and labeled as a 'video nasty'. This was because the movie was mistaken for "The Fun House", one of the many alternate titles for The Last House on Dead End Street (1977).