Six of the world's most notorious psychopaths escape from a local Asylum and proceed to unleash terror on the unsuspecting crowd of a Halloween Fun house. The themed mazes are inspired by their various reigns of terror, but the unsuspecting customers think that the all carnage is just part of the show.....The first twenty minutes of this film really entices the viewer into thinking that this will be something special. We have an iconic horror legend in the guise of Robert Englund, who's sole job is to introduce the killers in a Suicide Squad style, but without the elaborate music.As expected, once Englund has introduced the killers, he is no longer needed, the person whom he is showing the killers to, ends his screen time, and turns into a bargain basement Harley Quinn.The killers are interesting, but the main focus of the narrative is to concentrate on the gang of teens whom work in a diner who's only customer looks a lot like Stan Lee. Obviously this gang of teens love their pop culture, so we are submitted to lots of film references to keep the audience interested while the killers set up their 'fun house'.The problem is, the film doesn't focus on the most interesting part of the film, the killers, which could have made the film more of a 'House On haunted Hill (1999)' type exploitation flick, rather than your atypical teens in terror film.The teens are nothing more than your horror stereotypes, none of them have any likability about them, and as always, there is a good good cop, and the comic relief uneducated deputy who thinks he's something special.The scenes in the 'fun house' are quite good, and gore hounds will revel in the blood loss, but all the while, you can't help but will the killers to achieve their goal, and kill every annoying teen who goes into their house.So it's quite a good, if unoriginal concept, but if the focus of the narrative was primarily on the killers, rather than the annoying teens, this could have had cult written all over it.Shame...

With a title that is a mash-up of two Tobe Hooper horror classics—The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Funhouse—it's obvious from the start that The Funhouse Massacre isn't going to offer much in the way of originality: it's Halloween night, a group of lunatics have escaped from a high security mental asylum and are killing the patrons of a fun-house. Nope, not much new there! Still, at least the film never pretends to be anything other than a whole load of silly splattery fun, its tongue firmly in cheek as the psychopaths slash, chop, smash, slice and dice their way through the attraction's blissfully unaware customers, who believe that the killing is all part of the show—at least until it is their turn to die.It takes a while to get to the really bloody stuff (the last act is where the best effects happen, including a couple of cool decapitations), but when it does, The Funhouse Massacre proves very enjoyable nonsense, each psycho having their own unique method of dispatching victims: Animal the Cannibal (E.E. Bell) eats them (obviously), demented dentist Dr. Suave (Sebastian Siegel) uses an unusually large drill to treat 'patients', The Taxidermist (Clint Howard) guts and stuffs people, Rocco the Clown (Mars Crain) uses a 'test your strength' hammer to crush heads, and The Stitch Face Killer sews shut the eyes and mouth. Meanwhile Mental Manny (Jere Burns) oversees the carnage, which features some surprisingly good gore effects (just checked the credits and Robert Kurtzman was involved, so maybe not so surprising after all).

This one is definitely for horror fans as it focuses on gore and fun rather than actual scares. If you want to sit there and jump for ninety minutes rather than watch an actual story unfold then go watch Paranormal Activity. Instead this film focuses on creating a fun cast of villains, a decent enough set of 'heroes' and a great setting for them to square off in, although the title perhaps should be like 'House of Horrors' rather than 'Funhouse' as most of the premise revolves around people not taking the killings seriously since they are in a modern day house of horrors anyway.There are plenty of kills, although most involve knives or crushing rather than terribly creative deaths, but that almost adds to the film as for something so wacky and out-there, there is also a good amount of logical thought put into the situation as to how it all occurs. Most of usual questionable aspects of horror movies are answered for and played up, but not in an overt or laboured way. Overall this is a fun horror flick that fans will love. The only real issue is that the dialogue could have been more fun, but the overall plot and pacing of the movie make up for that and it is certainly an entertaining ride that ticks all the boxes and leaves room for a sequel should they so wish.

Robert Englund is credited first on the cover and has about 10 minutes of playtime. This scene is in an asylum and some dangerous serial killers escape on Halloween. They head for a fun house where there murder tactics are displayed which was planned by one of 'm for reasons I didn't quite get.The story was bad and almost felt like they wrote the script while they were filming the movie. The acting was very forgettable and the odd character development did not help with this. Especially the stumbling cop turning to cool guy in the third act was a good example of this.The movie just feels really messy and although there's a story to follow it lacks in which direction it want's to go. Some effects and some scenes are decent but nothing like the quality you've seen in better movies. The scares and the action felt lame and the whole thing just isn't that exciting and as a comedy it just isn't funny enough.If your into the indie horror movie this might be something for you. For everybody else out there,I don't recommend it.I will give it a star more for effort.