The Funhouse Massacre Review

Interest: 6/10

Acting: 7/10

Storyline: 8/10

Humor: 5/10

Fights Guns or otherwise: 8.5/10

Excitement: 6/10

Horror: 5/10

Nudity: 1/10

Gore: 10/10

Logic: 8/10

The Funhouse Massacre is a 2015 horror/Comedy movie. Let’s see how it fairs.

Interest: This film is a slow burner, and slowly ramps up. It slowly gets more and more into a interesting film and by half way has you in its grasp. While it isn’t the best attention grabber, if you let it, it does a good job of giving you a fun story and a fun idea, and does it well.

Acting: The acting is pretty solid considering. There are a few good older actors and some brand new faces pretty much only known for this. But they all do pretty well in keeping in character.

Storyline: A bunch of killers escape a secret prison and then on Halloween start there killings in a haunted house or “Funhouse”. The idea is interesting, and while the idea does work out, it also takes place in modern day, so some silly tropes still happen like “Hashtag X” or some other silly shit like that, while it is annoying, is probably what would really happen in modern day if I killer killed someone and drug off their body in the dark then the lights came back on.

Humor: The movie is decently funny, It won’t make your guy hurt, but it’s nice to see some breakup from the terror this film tries to instill, mostly because this film wasn’t made to be truly scary. The humor sets well with the horror.

Fights, Guns or Otherwise: The fights when they happen in this movie are actually really well done. I came into this film thinking it was one of those modern horror films with a lowish budget, but after watching, I definitely changed my mind on that.

Excitement: The movie is moderately exciting. It isn’t over the top and unless a gore hound, probably won’t talk much about this film afterwards. But that being said, in the film, there is a real urgency made in the film and it doesn’t feel artificial or just made up for fun. And it is semi exciting I suppose in the heroes trying to be heroes.

Horror: It wasn’t very scary unless tons of blood and gore freaks you out. The premise of the movie is scary, but it does it in a slasher-esque way. It could also be scary if one of the killers things they do is scary to you also. But it isn’t nearly a level of terrifying that would be considered a great horror movie. I’d honestly almost place this as a action or thriller movie than a horror film.

Nudity: There is some nudity in this film, a single breast. It really almost wasn’t worth talking about but it happens. So yeah.

Gore: There is a good amount of gore in this film. I mean at some point one guy rips a dudes face off and then wears it. Blood is in a modest flow, and pain and suffering happens for quite a few people in this film. Violence is pretty large for the film, so if this isn’t how you prefer your movie, you aren’t going to like this film. But to those of us that relish in the obscene and terrible, this film is pretty excellent in this category. Also this movie just has a high body count in it, so if you like that type of thing as well, check this flick out.

Logic: This films logic is honestly pretty sound for what most people would look at and say “It’s a dumb slasher flick with dumb slasher tropes.” and while this film does adhere to some of those tropes, it does do many things differently so it sticks out of the crowd with it’s writing acting and smarts.

So was the movie worth it? I think a watching is worth it, it is a fun movie, but most people would shelf this just on the absurdity that it is. And that is fine. I think anyone that wants a fun horror film to try to ease people into something a little more gore filled or to test the waters of how people may react to certain horror movies this would be it. It isn’t for the people that don’t want to sleep for days, it also isn’t in the same vain entirely as “Tucker and Dale VS Evil” either, as it’s much more serious than that film. It is in a category all of it’s own that I’m aware of. 64.5 out of 100, not bad. Give it a watch. Also mostly shot on location in Ohio!