The Funhouse Massacre

The trailer was dope. Me and my girlfriend thought that since it had Robert Englund in it, that it'll be good. They killed Robert Englund in the first 3 minutes of the film and he didn't come back. My girlfriend wrote the movie off, but we kept watching. She wasn't impressed after they murdered her favorite actor.The acting wasn't bad, had a solid plot. The blood splatter scenes were terrible. Buckets of blood, but none on the actor, blood squirting everywhere else. This film can easily fit into Teen Slasher categories. More like Horror Comedy. I laughed because certain parts were funny.2 Stars for false advertisement. because they mislead us with the trailer thinking that Robert Englund was in the movie.

Let's see...the cute heroine, the milquetoast guy who's too shy to admit he likes her, the floozy and the jock, the bumbling cop, body parts and blood splattering everywhere, gratuitous T&A…….now where have I seen all this before? Oh yeah...every teen slasher film from the 70's, 80's and 90's. Sigh...….. Well, this isn't the worst slasher flick I've ever seen but I'm very glad I didn't pay to see it. A very generous 3 stars.

Why does Hollywood spend so much on effects and so little on writing? Almost nobody in this film does anything a human would do. It's too stupid to be scary... and too ridiculous to be funny. Don't Waste your time.

A passel of serial loonies walk out of a high security asylum and set up shop in a funhouse. Using their expertise, they entertain paying customers by selectively killing the patrons in a gruesome fashion. It’s up to a small group of nitwits to kill the killers or escape the carnage and run for help. Help arrives in the guise of a sheriff with a hidden agenda and her dopey deputy Doyle who provides most of the slapstick humor. And it’s that humor which kills this attempt to merge two genres. Pick a lane, one or the other…Typical of its type, it was almost not bad.

Featuring legendary actors Robert Englund, Clint Howard, Jere Burns, and Courtney Gaines. FX Guru, Robert Kurtzman, is the producer of the special effects and if he's involved in any horror project, you know you're in for one hell of a ride. Cheerfully violent, funny, and brilliant. So much goodness of gore and bodies are everywhere. I felt really cozy and comfy while watching it. My favorite character is Dollface, played by Candice De Visser. She's just extremely great with her craziness and loveliness. Amazing job by the entire cast and crew. Salute to everyone for this horror extravaganza!!!

surprised me as the generic cover art had me expecting something awful It turned out being way better than I anticipated. A very solid gory funny B-movie slice of fun time.

Terrible writing and acting, but with horror films I can be forgiving about that. It was the lame comedy attempts that ruined this for me. Some of the jokes were so bad I cringed. If they went for a straight up horror, I think it would've been a lot better. Don't bother with this one. Not recommended.

Everyone knows I love horror films that take place in amusement parks or contains clowns. THE FUNHOUSE MASSACRE (2015) contains both. The film opens on Halloween Night, with reporter Ms. Eileen Quinn (Candice De Visser) threatening to expose the prison in the middle of town that is being kept secret from the surrounding residents unless the Warden (Robert Englund, doing his usual 5 minute cameo) takes her on a tour of it. The Warden tells her that even though Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and other famous serial killers have received all the Press, his prison holds some of the worst serial killers today, even if they are not well known (He whispers to Eileen, "There are people in here that God is even afraid of!"). He shows them to Eileen and they include Animal The Cannibal (E.E. Bell), whose crimes are self-explanatory; The Taxidermist (Clint Howard), who likes to create new human bodies by putting different sawdust-filled body parts together; Rocco The Brute (Mars Crain), who has killed all his opponents in the wrestling ring and later rips the face off a clown and wears his face!; Dr. Suave (Sebastian Siegel), who likes to remove teeth without the use of Novocaine; and the worst of them all, "Mental Manny" (Jere Burns), who once was the leader of a cult and set a girl on fire. Eileen follows the Warden to his office and garrotes the Warden so bad his head nearly come off and then kills a guard by stabbing him in the balls and then his back, stealing his gun. She then goes to the Control Room and kills the operator. She shoots him in the heart and beats his head in with her special walking stick and sets all the serial killers free. It turns out she is "Dollface", the daughter of Mental Manny, who is now the leader of all the serial killers. Dollface has set up the the local amusement park, The Land Of Illusion, with a special attraction called "The Funhouse" for Halloween, so that every room replicates the escaped serial killers' crimes and they first kill the Funhouse's director Dennis (Courtney Gains), but the one-dimentional cliched sex-crazed paying guests (the film's only failure) think it is all part of the show (The Taxidermist is removing the innards of a real human and the guests take a piece of the innards as a souvenir!) until they begin to disappear one-by-one. It is not long until these mental midgets begin to figure out that all the actors supposedly playing the serial killers are the real thing and there is no way to escape. Who will survive and what will be left of them? Can Sheriff Kate (Scottie Thompson), the only non-serial killer with a brain (her Deputy, played by Ben Begley, is even more stupid than the guests at The Funhouse, but proves to be pretty handy with a gun as the film progresses), solve and put an end to this massacre (she is also hiding a secret of her own)? Director Andy Palmer (BADLANDS OF KAIN - 2016), working with a screenplay by Ben Begley (his first feature screenplay), keeps things moving at a bloody quick pace (there's a juicy sequence where Rocco grabs the head of an audience member and pulls it off that is very well done, a graphic scene done with a carnival hammer [the kind you use to ring a bell], as is the scene were Dollface cuts a girl's head off with a knife; effects by Robert Kurtzman) and fills the film with some welcome faces, but the stereotypical stupid people (most who are killed three quarters of the way through the film) that usually inhabit films like this almost made me put the film sown a couple of stars, but like I said in the beginning, I am a sucker for films that take place at amusements parks and carnivals. I'll leave it up to you whether you like it or not. There was enough in this film for me to give it a positive review. Stay until after the end credits for a final stinger.

I took a chance with this one after watching a promising trailer. Unfortunately this didn't live up to that trailer. It was played way too much for laughs, had the usual annoying American teens/early twenties characters and certainly didn't deliver on the gore. For the amount of killers on the loose there weren't many on screen deaths. There were a couple of great kills including a very nice decapitation by hand but that was about it. A lot of screaming ensued but all we really saw was the aftermath. I know this was low budget but sorry guys you didn't deliver with this. The extras are poor, showing a lot of childish behind the scenes stuff and not much on the making of the film.

This is the worst product I've ever bought!Extremely inadequate quality all round, oh and the DVD doesn't work!NOT WORTH THE BUY!

Boring characters, boring story... yawn ! Shout Factory have a lot better titles than this one. Forgettable movie.

not as good as I thought it would be.

Awesome condition, crap movie. Wasn't what I expected.