Podcast: The Funhouse
Tobe Hooper's criminally underrated monster movie rules
Bring Me The Axe! Horror Podcast
Episode 38: The Funhouse
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Bring Me the Axe! is a comedy podcast celebrating the best (and worst) horror from a time when the video store ruled the night. Every other week, brothers Bryan and Dave White (and the occasional guest) heed the call of nostalgia and evaluate the classic 70s and 80s horror movies they loved in their childhood to determine whether the movies are still relevant today or should be allowed to fade into obscurity.
This week Bryan and Dave take a look at the criminally underrated horror movie by Tobe Hooper, The Funhouse from 1981. Tobe Hooper caught everyone's attention with the absolutely legendary horror movie, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and continued to toy with the tropes established in that movie through his other killer hillbilly movie, Eaten Alive, and straight into this one when he finally seems to get it all out of his system.
Universal Pictures at the time, with their own legacy of classic black and white horror movies, wanted a piece of that hot slasher movie action of the era and secured Hooper with the hopes that he'd turn in something tuned to the expectations of the time but he surprised everyone and decided to give them a proper monster movie in the mode of their own black and white horror movies. The disparity between the studio's intentions and the director's vision results in a monster movie that succeeds despite the challenges Tobe Hooper faced.
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