Fangoria reveals that Eli Roth, the director of Cabin Fever, Hostel, and Hostel: Part II, is planning on remaking Tobe Hooper's 1981 horror flick The Funhouse. Hooper is best known for directing the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but The Funhouse is definitely an underrated popcorn flick that fans of 80s horror cheese should check out if they haven't seen it (it was also featured as one of Frog Baby's Underrated Picks of the Month).

The original The Funhouse is about a group of teens who spend the night in a rather crusty carnival run by degenerates and a deformed Elephant Man-esque freak who wears a Frankenstein mask.

The Funhouse is a lot of fun and if anyone can do the material justice with a remake, it's Roth.

 

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Blood_Bather

I love The Funhouse, I think Frog Baby featured it an underrated gem edition. It's like Hooper's response to Italian horror what with the garish colors and all. I don't understand Roth's comments about the original film being somewhat of a letdown. Hopefully he can bring something new at the same time remaining faithful to the source.

Eater_of_Entrails

Blood_Bather wrote:

I love The Funhouse, I think Frog Baby featured it an underrated gem edition. It's like Hooper's response to Italian horror what with the garish colors and all. I don't understand Roth's comments about the original film being somewhat of a letdown. Hopefully he can bring something new at the same time remaining faithful to the source.

Yeah. After seeing it as a kid I was scared of carnival haunted houses.

I love that one scene where the deformed dude goes apeshit and starts screaming his head off. It's when you first see his face.

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