Funeral Home [1980]
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Movie Reviews of Funeral Home [1980]
Movie Review: A Must Have For Horror Fans
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an awesome scary movie.. Good acting, great storyline, and suprise ending for its time. you gotta watch itMovie Review: Underrated Spooky Story with no gore/nudity
Summary: 3 Stars
I give this 3 1/2 stars. Not many people have heard of this film. It was a little known release. I saw it as a kid and never forgot it. I traced it down recently and bought the DVD. The DVD itself is a bad transfer. There are lines going through it at the first part of the film. It isn't too distracting and make it seem more nostalgic and drive-in like.
What I like about the movie is that it manages to be creepy and intriguing without gore and nudity. There is also a line in the film that is so true, "funeral home workers face being mocked and are misunderstood".
Anyways, you may have heard it ends like "Psycho". And I totally agree it does!
If you like this film, let me recommend these creepy films as well:
Watcher In The Woods
The House By The Cemetery
The Legend Of Boggy Creek
Movie Review: Fun 80's flick
Summary: 3 Stars
Yeah the DVD might be crap but I'd still recommend this "lost gem" for many reasons: 1) It's fun 2) The death scenes are setup 3) The score isn't that bad.
It does have a few problems. For one it's predictable, the "twist" ending did not fool me. At times it can be slow but the lead which is a pretty girl ,Lesleh Donaldson, is very talented and manages to carry the film very well. She's a girl working at a funeral home with her Grandma looking for her Grandfather, and a bunch of murders which seem to point back at home start happening.
An ok 80's film. Definitely fun to watch with popcorn and soda.
Movie Review: Pretty Poor
Summary: 2 Stars
Saw this flim as part of an "X" rated (for the time) drive in movie triple feature in 1983..."The Hearse", "Funeral Home", and the sole reason they could call it "X"..."The Gates of Hell" (aka: "City of the Living Dead" by Lucio Fulci). It was long before the current (and pretty much useless) rating of NC17. This was back in the day when "X" could be for violence. I have fond recollections of that evening but I recalled "Funeral Home" wasn't very good. 24 years later it's finally on DVD & it still isn't very good. William Fruet directs this leaden picture with almost zero thrills. The few genuine horror aspects of the film are totally run of the mill & tame. Most of the movie's running time is spent with a boring storyline, boring dialog & boring characters. There are a few atmospheric shots but that's about all it has going for it. This film reminds me of the stale popcorn I ate at the drive in that night. The acting is fine. The grandma (while not appealing or very interesting) is okay but mostly her character comes off as just annoying. The lead actress Lesleh Donaldson is a decent enough & shows off some acting chops but somehow doesn't convey "lead" to me in this particular film. Barry Morse does a fine job as Mr. Davis. Harvey Atkin of "Meatballs" & "Cagney & Lacey" fame rips out one of his patented "jovial goofball" roles. He's always reliable. Finally Peggy Mahon does a pretty good job of pulling off the "cheap floozie" role she's given. She's actually very funny while tormenting the village idiot with her wicked "come hither" banter. But the film is just outright boring. You think from the ominous title it will be a horrific thrill ride like maybe a poor man's "Phantasm". It's nothing like that. Just a slow moving "who done it?" type of thing.
Legacy Entertainment has dropped the ball as well in this release. One big mistake was the boxcover. Pretty "blah". Okay well the spooky funeral home looks fairly creepy. But what sucked me in as a kid was the original one-sheet theatrical poster (check it out at imdb.com). Very cool...a hand coming out of the ground onto a gravestone, the backlit funeral home off in the distance, and what appears to be zombies surrounding the walkway. Why Legacy didn't use that is beyond me. I'm sure it would suck in a few buyers just with that creepy picture (however misleading those images are). Lastly the picture quality. Really bad. Full screen, grainy, looks like a transfer from VHS. Worst of all are the hum bars that roll through the movie the ENTIRE running time! Totally unacceptable & very annoying. The tagline for this flick was "Some things never rest in peace". It's too bad somebody unearthed this flick 24 years after it stank the first time.
Movie Review: AWFUL PICTURE QUALITY!
Summary: 1 Stars
This DVD release is an embarrassment - this is the worst quality picture I have ever seen on DVD!
There are flopping light and dark bars, static, ghost images, and the picture is very grainy.
This has been transferred directly from a BAD quality VHS copy - no remastering, no original film source.
Also, because this is from a bad old VHS copy, it is also a Full Screen release.
The movie may be enjoyable - Barry Morse is quite good in it - but this DVD release is terrible and should not be supported. Try one of the other sources available on amazon!
I expect better quality than this, no matter how cheap the DVD may be. This listing should carry a warning about the low-grade quality of the product!
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