GL84 Arriving at her grandmother's to help out, a teen trying to help her turn the funeral home she lives in into a bed-and-breakfast becomes concerned about a series of guest disappearances, and once she starts to investigate the claims finds a terrifying secret that haunts the funeral home.There are some really nice things in here. One of the better aspects of this one is the central mystery built up about who the killer is which does manage to get some good moments. The fact that there are at least four different possible killers is a great idea, making each red herring a real target is a great idea that comes across wonderfully while each one does manage to maintain throughout here by giving each some credibility to be the individual in question. The only other features here that are worthwhile are the several big stalking scenes which are quite well handled, especially the sequence where a truck comes up and attacks a couple in a car pushing them closer to a cliff edge. A nice chase through the basement at night where the combination of whispering voices and desire not to get caught makes the scene play out with all the suspense possible, while the best part is the conclusion which features several big scenes in the basement as well as the fantastic brawl with the real killer which is completely Hitchcockian in tone and action. It feels like a nice little rip-off of several big films with the tight, enclosed fighting take place in the dark location which is a really over-the-top way to end it on a high note. These here hold it up as there's a couple of problems here that really aren't that easy to get over. The biggest issue is the very slow pacing apparent throughout here, and it really holds up the film. There's a long period of time where nothing really happens other than setting up a red herring, and that just makes the film play out longer than it really should. The setup shouldn't take as long as it does to play out, as there's an hour before the film really gets going in delivering any kind of horror consistently. That whole first hour is really long and slow-going filled with her judgemental behavior against the guests, filling in the backstory of his disappearance or just the general exploits of the other citizens around the community, making it a really hard sit-through. This leads into the issue about the lack of kills in general which is another big handicap, as the prime audience interested in it will be mostly bored throughout without much of a body count to feature here. That also hurts in the gore factor, as only one death out of the couple actually killed off was slightly gory, and even then it wasn't anything all that remarkable yet compared to the blandness of the other kills here stands out slightly for that reason alone which is a shame considering that isn't even that good anyway. There really could've been a lot more to this one as it's an incredibly dull effort.Rated R: Violence and Graphic Language.

Aaron1375 I am kind of surprised to see the score of this film on the plus side of five. I found it to be completely boring as I had the ending pegged about ten minutes into this one. So once you have the twist ending figured out all there is left to do is watch the deaths and hope they are bloody, hope for some nudity or hope they pull a fast one and the ending is not exactly what you are expecting. Well, the deaths are few and far between with only one really good one near the end of the film. The main girl of the piece is cute, but looks too young to show any skin and she doesn't and the one guest at the inn who is having an affair is not someone you want to see naked and thankfully she does not. Then the ending comes and it is exactly what I was expecting. The only thing that was surprising was the end where the police officer basically explained what had happened in what almost seemed like a television show wrap up.The story has a young lady going to her grandmother's place to help her set it up as a tourist house of some sort. Basically a bed and breakfast as for reasons unknown this town is some sort of attraction. Seriously, the only thing of note is a quarry where people go swimming. The inn used to be a funeral home and when we first see it I was thinking that the place was in worse shape than the one in Fulci's The Beyond. Guests actually start staying at the place and an obnoxious couple having an affair begin to get under the skin of both grandma and her helper outside. The young lady begins hearing voices from the cellar and people start disappearing while the local law enforcement with the exception of the newest addition seems to not care that people are disappearing.The film was a complete bore to me, I can stand a bad horror, but I hate boring ones and this was very boring to me. I do not know what others saw in this one, but all I saw was a very poorly done and acted ripoff of Psycho. Like I said, that ending was completely telegraphed right from the get go. Without any surprise you may get from the ending you are left with nothing to enjoy about the film other than the one kill near the end. One kill in an hour and a half movie cannot save or elevate this one all that high. Almost seemed a movie Mystery Science Theater could have riffed as the end scene where the killer was attacking you could not tell where the killer was in relation to the where the girl was. Just bad and boring with an ending that is easily figured out the moment you hear voices in the cellar.

Darkling_Zeist The much undervalued genre director, William Fruet (Spasms, Death Weekend, Baker County U.S.A) orchestrates a particularly fine, Gothic horror using that age-old motif of 'there's something in the cellar". A low budget effort that makes good use of its primary location, the suitably dilapidated guest house that once functioned as the local funeral home/mortuary. Needless to say, one deranged occupant labors under the impression that nothing has changed! More 'Psycho' than 'Motel Hell' since it focuses on atmospheric chills rather than lurid grume; that said, the bravura ending is suitably macabre! 'Funeral Home' remains a real gem of early 80's US indie horror and its charms remain undimmed!

acidburn-10 Plot = A young woman goes out to the countryside to help her grandmother turn her old funeral home into a tourist motel, but it seems that some of the guests aren't very friendly and seem to be disappearing and that grandmother seems to be keeping someone in the cellar, could it be connected to the disappearing guests.I've heard some good things about this movie and went in with high expectations, but when I saw it, I was a little disappointed. For a start it's way too slow paced and dark, I couldn't even make out what was going on half the time especially the nighttime scenes. The body count was also extremely low considering that this is billed as a slasher movie. Here's a movie which definitely had potential though, the story is pretty slick and it does have some potentially creepy scenes but it never gets very creepy as it is so poorly executed.What I did love about this movie was the central characters, the grandmother (Kay Hawtrey), she starts out as the typical lovable grandmother but as the movie progresses she becomes more and more strange especially when we discover that she's hiding something or someone in the cellar, she adds more and more layers to her character especially at the end. We also have 80's scream queen Lesleh Donaldson in a main part this time round after bowing out early in previous brilliant slashers (Curtains & Happy Birthday To Me), she does well in this movie and it's nice to see more of her this time round.The final 20 minutes of this movie echo's Psycho, but sadly I saw it coming a mile off, and although quite entertaining and made up for the boring first half of the movie, for me it came too little too late.All in all a good creepy thriller, but sadly it was way too slow paced and forgettable, although it does have some potental like interesting leads but just doesn't work as a slasher movie.