A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.
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Cast
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| Kay Hawtrey | ... | Maude Chalmers (as Kay Hawtry) | |
| Lesleh Donaldson | ... | Heather | |
| Barry Morse | ... | Mr. Davis | |
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Dean Garbett | ... | Rick Yates |
| Stephen E. Miller | ... | Billy Hibbs (as Stephen Miller) | |
| Alf Humphreys | ... | Joe Yates (as Alfred Humphreys) | |
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Peggy Mahon | ... | Florie |
| Harvey Atkin | ... | Harry Browning | |
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Robert Warner | ... | Sheriff (as Bob Warner) |
| Jack Van Evera | ... | James Chalmers | |
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Les Rubie | ... | Sam |
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Doris Petrie | ... | Ruby |
| Bill Lake | ... | Frank | |
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Brett Matthew Davidson | ... | Young Rick (as Brett Davidson) |
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Christopher Crabb | ... | Teddy (as Chris Crabb) |
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An old funeral parlor now converted into a tourist home during certain periods such as the summer, develops a problem, when a escaped mental patient with a split personality moves in and proceeds to do away with those specific/certain guests or staff, he/she feels are nosy or immoral. Written by ????
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psycho killer | small town | pulling a car from water | black cat | undertaker |Taglines:
They were warned... they were all warned... don't go down to the cellar. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
CanadaLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
12 August 1982 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
CAD 1,400,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC), The Incident at North Hampton Productions See more »
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(uncredited)
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by Sabine Baring-Gould
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Trivia
Frontier Amusements released this in Canada in the fall of 1980 as CRIES IN THE NIGHT and then re-released the movie in September of 1982 as FUNERAL HOME. See more »Goofs
The film is set in the U.S., but there is a Canadian flag displayed prominently in front of a public building. See more »Quotes
Maude Chalmers: [On what happened to her mortician husband] Just vanished into thin air!See more »
Soundtracks
Onward, Christian Soldiers(uncredited)
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by Sabine Baring-Gould
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"Funeral Home" is very entertaining and traditionally morbid early 80's horror movie directed by the underrated William Fruet, who also made the top-notch revenge flick "House by the Lake" and the goofy slasher "Killer Party". Fruet obviously hadn't much of a budget available here, so he splendidly emphasizes the horrific atmosphere and makes full use of the eerie settings. A lot of great movies use a bed & a breakfast motel as horror location and the residence in this movie is actually a former mortuary turned into bed & breakfast, so creepiness is definitely guaranteed! Heather, a young girl with an unexplained phobia for black cats, travels to a remote little town to help her grandmother run the newly opened vacation resort. Her grandfather, the local undertaker for decades, mysteriously vanished a couple of years ago and the villagers still spread nasty rumors about him. During the night, Heather hears strange voices coming from the basement and, shortly after, the first guests begin to disappear. The plot offers almost no surprise elements or twists; also since it's clearly a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho", and the amount of bloody make-up effects is kept to a minimum. Still the tone of the movie is constantly ominous and several sequences are downright creepy, notably the handful of flashbacks referring to the times Mr. Chalmers still ran the funeral home. The acting and music are also very good and the predictably grotesque climax is a lot of fun to watch. Creepy stuff, vintage 80's horror!