The Funhouse (1981)

All Critics (16) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (5) | DVD (5)

With its two-headed cow, mutant baby in a jar, jokes about bestiality, references to 'Bride of Frankenstein' and misbegotten monster, this is very much a horror movie that contemplates, with awe and terror, the sometimes terrible consequences of sex.

November 16, 2012 Full Review

John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Bad date chiller.

July 22, 2010 Full Review

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

An underrated gem, a mini-masterpiece of frights and atmosphere.

October 15, 2008 Full Review

Dustin Putman

DustinPutman.com

Lento e aborrecido, consegue criar tensão em um ou outro momento, mas só.

April 14, 2005

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

Creepy but slow horror show. Neat monster.

March 20, 2003

Gerry Shamray

Sun Newspapers of Cleveland

It's creepy and effective and a kind of fun horror picture we don't see anymore.

September 12, 2002 Full Review

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Not as fun as it should be, but worth a visit.

January 1, 2000 Full Review

Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

• 1. Harper: I don't know where you're going tonight, but don't go to that damn carnival. It went through Fairfield last year, when they found the bodies of those two girls in the creek.
  – Submitted by Creep F (2 years ago)
• 1. The Barker: They wiggle and they dance. Six beautiful girls. They wiggle and they dance. (Looks straight at Amy very eerily) They wiggle and they dance.
  – Submitted by Creep F (2 years ago)
• 1. Madame Zena: Don't come back. Or I'll break every bone in your F**KIN' BODIES! Beat it!
  – Submitted by Creep F (2 years ago)
• 1. Marco The Magnificent: A little history. In the fifth century, Vlad V of Wallachia, known as Vlad the lmpaler to his friends, tortured 23,000 prisoners in a device not unlike this. Tiring of his name, he decided to change it. He selected his father's name, Dracul, meaning devil. He added the letter A and became. Dracula; literally, 'son of the devil'. And so legends are born.
  – Submitted by Creep F (2 years ago)
• 1. Carnival Manager: Alive, alive, a-live-ah. These are all creatures of God, ladies and gentlemen. Not men. They are authentic, and they are alive. Alive, alive, alive-ah.
  – Submitted by Creep F (2 years ago)
• 1. Bag Lady: God is watching you!
  2. Amy: Beg your pardon?
  3. Bag Lady: He hears everything! (Walks in the bathroom stall)
  4. Liz: I hate people who preach. Especially in bathrooms. Anyway, I don't know what you're saving it for.
  5. Amy: Who says I'm saving it?
  6. Bag Lady: (in the bathroom stall) God is watching you!
  – Submitted by Creep F (2 years ago)

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