Funeral Home (1982)

The chilling tale of young woman who helps her grandfather converts the town funeral home into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After opening, bizarre family secrets are slowly revealed as guests begin to disappear.

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This transfer is really shoddy. Please don't waste your money as you can buy the Mill Creek Chilling Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection for around $16 and get a better transfer of this movie and 49 other pictures. The DVD master was clearly an old VHS tape and there are tracking problems and hazy image resolution issues on every frame of this version.

Look for Chilling Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection on amazon and get that instead. July 3, 2008

AWFUL PICTURE QUALITY!

This DVD release is an embarrassment - this is the worst quality picture I have ever seen on DVD!

There are flopping light and dark bars, static, ghost images, and the picture is very grainy.

This has been transferred directly from a BAD quality VHS copy - no remastering, no original film source.

Also, because this is from a bad old VHS copy, it is also a Full Screen release.

The movie may be enjoyable - Barry Morse is quite good in it - but this DVD release is terrible and should not be supported. Try one of the other sources available on amazon!

I expect better quality than this, no matter how cheap the DVD may be. This listing should carry a warning about the low-grade quality of the product! February 25, 2008

Pretty Poor

Saw this flim as part of an "X" rated (for the time) drive in movie triple feature in 1983..."The Hearse", "Funeral Home", and the sole reason they could call it "X"..."The Gates of Hell" (aka: "City of the Living Dead" by Lucio Fulci). It was long before the current (and pretty much useless) rating of NC17. This was back in the day when "X" could be for violence. I have fond recollections of that evening but I recalled "Funeral Home" wasn't very good. 24 years later it's finally on DVD & it still isn't very good. William Fruet directs this leaden picture with almost zero thrills. The few genuine horror aspects of the film are totally run of the mill & tame. Most of the movie's running time is spent with a boring storyline, boring dialog & boring characters. There are a few atmospheric shots but that's about all it has going for it. This film reminds me of the stale popcorn I ate at the drive in that night. The acting is fine. The grandma (while not appealing or very interesting) is okay but mostly her character comes off as just annoying. The lead actress Lesleh Donaldson is a decent enough & shows off some acting chops but somehow doesn't convey "lead" to me in this particular film. Barry Morse does a fine job as Mr. Davis. Harvey Atkin of "Meatballs" & "Cagney & Lacey" fame rips out one of his patented "jovial goofball" roles. He's always reliable. Finally Peggy Mahon does a pretty good job of pulling off the "cheap floozie" role she's given. She's actually very funny while tormenting the village idiot with her wicked "come hither" banter. But the film is just outright boring. You think from the ominous title it will be a horrific thrill ride like maybe a poor man's "Phantasm". It's nothing like that. Just a slow moving "who done it?" type of thing.

Legacy Entertainment has dropped the ball as well in this release. One big mistake was the boxcover. Pretty "blah". Okay well the spooky funeral home looks fairly creepy. But what sucked me in as a kid was the original one-sheet theatrical poster (check it out at imdb.com). Very cool...a hand coming out of the ground onto a gravestone, the backlit funeral home off in the distance, and what appears to be zombies surrounding the walkway. Why Legacy didn't use that is beyond me. I'm sure it would suck in a few buyers just with that creepy picture (however misleading those images are). Lastly the picture quality. Really bad. Full screen, grainy, looks like a transfer from VHS. Worst of all are the hum bars that roll through the movie the ENTIRE running time! Totally unacceptable & very annoying. The tagline for this flick was "Some things never rest in peace". It's too bad somebody unearthed this flick 24 years after it stank the first time. November 6, 2007

A Must Have For Horror Fans

This is an awesome scary movie.. Good acting, great storyline, and suprise ending for its time. you gotta watch it September 16, 2007

Totally fun movie.

This movie has the typial aura of the "Golden Age of Horror" movies.

Bad acting, no-name actors, grainy film quality, seriously if you are a b-horror fan then don't pass this one up.

The grandmother is totally creepy, making for a nice eerie plot.

And of course, any movie involving a funeral home is just a must for any cult horror fans.

I mean, c'mon, its a funeral home turned into bed & breakfast where the guests go missing, its an irresistable plot.

I was caught off guard by the twist ending, I thought it was really freaky.

This is just a great movie, you need to see this if you a fan of b-horror.

Brent. September 4, 2007

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