The Funhouse Massacre (2015)

Six of the world's scariest psychopaths escape from a local Asylum and proceed to unleash terror on the unsuspecting crowd of a Halloween Funhouse, whose themed mazes are inspired by their various reigns of terror.

Director:

Andy Palmer

Writers:

Ben Begley (screenplay), Ben Begley (story by)

Stars:

Robert Englund, Jere Burns, Scottie Thompson

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Robert Englund	...	Warden
Jere Burns	...	Mental Manny
Scottie Thompson	...	Sheriff Kate
Matt Angel	...	Morgan
Chasty Ballesteros	...	Christina
Clint Howard	...	Taxidermist
Courtney Gains	...	Dennis
Erick Chavarria	...	Gerardo
Mars Crain	...	Rocco
Candice De Visser	...	Dollface / Ms. Quinn
E.E. Bell	...	Animal
Ben Begley	...	Deputy Doyle
Michael Eric Reid	...	Mikey
Leigh Parker	...	Randall
Sebastian Siegel	...	Dr. Suave

Storyline

For humanity's own good, in a high-security, top-secret facility for the criminally insane, five of the world's most hideous and deranged killers are locked up without trial. Although this may be true, rather unexpectedly, a wide array of lunatics ranging from cannibalistic gourmets to maniacal dentists, and from demented hobbyists to psychotic clowns from hell and insane pious sinners, will escape making their way to Macon County Funhouse for its grand opening night. Soon, with the attraction's crew conveniently replaced by the gang of psychos, the unsuspecting customers who paid for thrills will witness a hack-hack, chop-chop realistic show that goes all the way.

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Plot Keywords:

haunted house attraction | psychopath | asylum | cannibalism | mass suicide | 

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Taglines:

Murder is all part of the show.

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for bloody horror violence and gore, language, some sexual content/nudity and drug use

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 November 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Funhouse Massacre

Company Credits

Production Co:

Petri Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Filmed at Land of Illusion Haunted Scream Park outside Middletown, Ohio.

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Goofs

When Morgan gets shot in the arm when the police arrive, he gets shot in the right arm and sheriff Kate bandages him up. Later on in the movie we see the left arm bandaged up.

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Connections

Spoofs The Goonies (1985)

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Soundtracks

Darkest Road (Begins)
Written, produced, and performed by PUBLIC JONES
(Asghar Husain and Peter Kerekes)

User Reviews

Had All The Ingredients To Be A Really Fun Slasher Flick But Just Doesn't Deliver

I tend to love cheesy slasher flicks that don't take themselves too seriously so I was excited to check out "The Fun House Massacre". After seeing some trailers and reading some reviews this seemed like it would be right up my alley. Story seemed somewhat interesting and there were some very interesting names on the cast list (Robert Englund and Clint Howard), but for the most part I was just excited to see some over the top gory kills and from the looks of it I figured this movie would definitely deliver in that department, it did somewhat but it was also a bit of a disappointment.

Six psychotic maniacs have broken out of a secret asylum that houses people who too violent for modern society, from there they descend upon a Fun house (haunted house) on Halloween and take the place of the staff so that they can have their violent psychotic fun without arousing too much suspicion (since people just assume it is part of the act). So the film does a great job of setting the scene for an ultra blood bath, but I think the main problem here (for me at least) is that the kills just weren't all that fun to watch. The effects weren't terrible but every kill was just kind of generic or not brutal at all. Of the six killers I really only felt like two of them were worthwhile, the rest just kind of felt pointless.

The cast was OK, unfortunately the guys I was looking forward to seeing the most (Englund and Howard) had very little screen time, although the little screen time they had was pretty solid. Everyone else does their parts well enough aside from a few people who tried a little hard to be funny (although I would blame the cheesy dialogue for that). I felt like the killers could have had a bit more personality. It seemed like they wanted The Stitched Face killer to be the stand out but she just wasn't an interesting character and really just ended up feeling like a watered down version of Harley Quinn.

"The Fun House Massacre" isn't an awful movie, it does have points where it is fun and entertaining but with the story line and cast they had at their disposal I feel like this could have been a much better slasher movie. They were headed in the right direction with it but at some point they took a wrong turn and the movie definitely suffers from that. In the end it's just another cheesy slasher movie that has a few redeeming qualities but is far from being anything special.