Sam Panico Oh Canada.Your horror movies are so strange, so unlike anywhere else, as you remain such a polite country, our neighbor to the north. What strange horrors have you brought to me today? Oh look - it's 1980's Funeral Home, otherwise known by the much better title Cries in the Night.Heather (Lesleh Donaldson, Curtains, Happy Birthday to Me) is spending the summer in a small town with her grandmother, who has turned her home, which was once a funeral home, into a quaint inn. Her husband's been missing for several years, so she also makes ends meet by selling artificial flowers. She even has her own handyman, Billy, who is mentally challenged.The only problem is that when people check in, they end up missing. Like that unmarried adulterous couple. And that real estate developer. And when Heather comes home at night, she hears her grandmother talk to someone who isn't there.Well, it seems like Heather's grandfather was having an affair with Helena Davis, which her grandmother denies to everyone, including Helena's husband (Barry Morse, the Inspector from TV's original The Fugitive) - who is soon murdered with a pickaxe.Heather and her boyfriend Rick start investigating, finally finding the corpse of her grandfather. Now, Maude speaks with his voice and comes after them with an axe. Luckily, the police arrive just in time.As the credits roll, the cops explain all of it to us. It's such a weird ending, with an overly long explanation fighting for screen time with the names of the gaffers.This movie just felt like a slog. I continually kept checking to see how much more time was left. I hate when movies make me do that.

MartinHafer While you may not suspect it through most of the film, it turns out that "Funeral Home" is essentially a remake of "Psycho". So you should consider this before deciding whether or not to see the movie. Now you know that it simply CAN'T be as good as the Hitchcock classic....but is it worth watching anyway?The story finds a young lady moving in with her grandmother. Grandma and her dead husband used to operate a funeral home but now she'd decided to turn the home into a B&B. The problem is that sometimes the guest just disappear and are never heard from again. The local police aren't terribly concerned and no one seems concerned other than a guest who keeps asking a lot of questions (Barry Morse). So what is going on here and why is Grandma so insistent that no one go down into the cellar?Despite the lack of originality and some acting which is sub-par, the film does maintain a nice, creepy atmosphere and it IS entertaining. Worth seeing? Yes...but not an enthusiastic yes.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Maude Chlamers,Kay Hawtrey, was forced to convert the family funeral home into a bed & breakfast after her husband the undertaker & embalmer disappeared a number of years ago leaving her all alone and unable to keep it running. It's when Maude's granddaughter Heather, Lesleh Donaldson, showed up for summer vacation that people or guests at the bed & breakfast started disappearing at record levels. It wasn't until much later we get the drift in what exactly is going on in the place from Mr. Davis, Barry Morse, one of the guest there who's trying to track down his missing wife Helena who, like most of those that disappeared in the movie, was once a guest there herself.It's Heather who soon finds out the secret that her grandmother Maude has been keeping from her and the world and that put both her and her boyfriend Rick, Dean Garbett, lives in mortal danger. As for Mr. Davis his snooping around the bed & breakfast and finding out what happened to his wife cost him his life! But that soon opened up a whole can of worms in unleashing the horror that was soon to come in the film. That with the unseen ax killer losing it and, in his or her uncontrollable murder spree, exposing himself as well as uncovering a number of bodies he hid over the years on the bed & breakfast grounds.****SPOILERS**** What is an obvious re-make of "Psycho" the film "Funeral Home" like "Psycho" keeps the body count, four, low but the tension high giving it time for character development of the killer's victims where you feel that their human beings not inanimate objects like in most slasher films. The final scene where both Heather & Rick find out who's been doing the killings in fact is even more shocking then in the final scene of "Psycho"! Where in this case the two had to fight for their lives not just find out who the killer is as he or she's being apprehended before he can do any damage. There's also the mystery of the mysterious black cat that we see all throughout the film that is never explained by the scriptwriters. The black cat seems to be at the scene of every murder as if it knew, like some kind of premonition, it would happen in advance!

Mikel3 Yesterday I watched a 1980 horror film called 'Funeral Home'. I've been getting a lot of use out of our Amazon Prime membership during these cold winter days. This was a cross between 'Psycho', 'Little Red Riding Hood' and Ma Kettle, a character you might remember from old films. The premise was a young woman comes to help her friendly grandmother. They are turning her old funeral home into a sort of Bed and Breakfast to make money to keep the place. Grandma's husband, the funeral director, had disappeared years earlier. Also, there have been other mysterious disappearances in the area. It wasn't a bad movie, just dragged a bit at times and was predictable. It was not excessively gory, too much gore is a turn off for me. The only actor in it I recognized was Barry Morse from 'Space 1999'. If you like stories about mysterious psycho killers like '1979s 'Tourist Trap' this should fit the bill.