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Title: Tobe Hooper's Best
Review: One of the finest post-Halloween horror films, The Funhouse features suspense and shock in equal measures. The claustrophobic setting of a funhouse after closing time is the perfect stage for elegantly lit carnage. Director Tobe Hooper made more successful films, but in my opinion, this is his best. Carpenter dazzled with suspense in Halloween, sparking the best and worst period of horror-film making in history. This is one of the best of that period. Clever opening credits tip off the edge this movie has over the spate of low-budget splatter fests that turned increasingly sadistic as they tried to outdo each other in violence levels. Here the mutant killer and his creepy brother (in the film's best performance) have a sympathetic backstory. Even the sexual titillation is tastefully done. Gore without guilt. I loved it.
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