Funeral Home will be released on Blu-Ray for the first time by Scream Factory on February 6, 2024. The Special Edition release will treat fans to a new HD transfer of the film, plus a bevy of extras including new interviews with actor Lesleh Donaldson as well as select filmmakers. Special Features:
New Audio Commentary With Film Historians Jason Pichonsky And Paul Corupe
New Isolated Score Selections & Audio Interview With Music Historian Douglass Fake
New Audio Interviews With Actor Lesleh Donaldson, First Assistant Director Ray Sager, And Production Assistant Shelley Allen
New “Secrets & Shadows” – Interview With Director Of Photography Mark Irwin
New “Dead & Breakfast” – Interviews With Art Director Susan Longmire And Set Assistant Elinor Galbraith
New “Family Owned & Operated” – Interview With Brian Allen, President Of Premier Drive-In Theatres
NEW Original Filming Location Footage
Theatrical Trailer
Video Trailer
TV Spots
Radio Spots
Still Gallery
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Meanwhile, here’s our previous coverage of the movie:
‘Some things never rest in peace.’
Funeral Home is a 1980 Canadian horror film produced and directed by William Fruet (Death Weekend; Spasms; Killer Party) from a screenplay written by Ida Nelson. Also released as Cries in the Night
The movie stars Kay Hawtrey (Love at Stake; Haunted by Her Past; American Psycho 2), Lesleh Donaldson (Happy Birthday to Me; Deadly Eyes; Curtains), Barry Morse (Asylum; The Changeling), Dean Garbett, Stephen E. Miller and Alf Humphreys (Death Weekend; My Bloody Valentine).
Plot:
Young and easily frightened sixteen-year-old Heather (Lesleh Donaldson) is called to stay with her grandmother in the hopes of helping her turn an old funeral home into a bed-and-breakfast. But strange happenings and unexplained murders around the home quickly make this vacation spot a “dead-and-breakfast” – with no answers in sight as to who or what is causing all the deaths. It is up to Heather to investigate all the eerie and creepy corners of the former funeral home to unlock a decades-old secret – but will she survive to solve the mysteries?
Reviews:
” …this is not a bad little suspenser, with effective camerawork and good performances, especially from Hawtrey and Donaldson (who resembles a buxom Ally Sheedy).” All Movie
“It moved along well enough and kept me interested throughout, so I’d have to say it’s a recommend […] I’m not suggesting that it’s essential viewing or something particularly remarkable or memorable, but if you’re nostalgic for the less sordid edge of USA Up All Night or Night Flight fare, this is worth a peek.” d-contextualized
“I’ll give the movie some credit for only borrowing the twist and not the whole structure of its inspiration. However, it fails to come up with a really strong story, either; it merely sets things up for the final twist, and you should be able to figure out what it’s going to be before we get there. The movie is slightly padded to get it up to running length.” Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings
“Aside from the acting, you also get the well-worn “cat scare”, a poor score from Jerry Fielding (one of his last, sadly), and a final reel that clumsily puts everything together in a way that references a much, much better movie […] Yet, despite the general lack of standard slasher movie elements, I still found just enough to enjoy here.” For It Is Man’s Number
“The movie brings forth a spooky tone and psychological mystery that most slashers simply do not, and yet it still maintains all the wonderful cheese you expect from an 80s slasher. Funeral Home is Canada’s Psycho!” Oh, the Horror!
“Unfortunately, just as the film builds up to an enjoyable and campily frenetic climax it blows it all with a complete dramatic damp squib of an ending- it’s one of those, you know the ones, where you exclaim to yourself, “Oh,…. is that it?”. Hysteria Lives
“Some hack n’ slash tendencies are present but the consistent level of pacing and atmosphere here is usually unseen in the wave that came after Carpenter’s Halloween. Definitely recommended, however; don’t come in expecting to see a body count or an emergence of an unheralded slasher icon.” Basement of Ghoulish Decadence
“[spoiler] … ultimately it’s the drunken abuses of the absent grandfather that are blamed for the murderous rampage well, kinda-rampage. Here, the poisonous male character is a mere spectre, and Fruet shows us that even in death, dudes are potent saboteurs. Too bad he couldn’t explore that idea in Ida Nelson’s script with a lot more punch.” Canuxploitation!
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“Several standout scenes are spooky, but you can feel a spirit of fun behind the whole thing. It could have had more flashbacks and better dialogue, and the end should have been campier, but it’s worth watching if it comes your way.” David Elroy Goldweber, Claws & Saucers
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“William Fruet’s direction is workaday, and Ida Nelson’s script is too derivative of Psycho to stand on its own. Good track by Jerry Fielding.” John Stanley, Creature Features
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