Best movie of this year hands down!

Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Crappy film

Oh Canada.Your horror movies are so strange, so unlike anywhere else, as you remain such a polite country, our neighbor to the north. What strange horrors have you brought to me today? Oh look - it's 1980's Funeral Home, otherwise known by the much better title Cries in the Night.Heather (Lesleh Donaldson, Curtains, Happy Birthday to Me) is spending the summer in a small town with her grandmother, who has turned her home, which was once a funeral home, into a quaint inn. Her husband's been missing for several years, so she also makes ends meet by selling artificial flowers. She even has her own handyman, Billy, who is mentally challenged.The only problem is that when people check in, they end up missing. Like that unmarried adulterous couple. And that real estate developer. And when Heather comes home at night, she hears her grandmother talk to someone who isn't there.Well, it seems like Heather's grandfather was having an affair with Helena Davis, which her grandmother denies to everyone, including Helena's husband (Barry Morse, the Inspector from TV's original The Fugitive) - who is soon murdered with a pickaxe.Heather and her boyfriend Rick start investigating, finally finding the corpse of her grandfather. Now, Maude speaks with his voice and comes after them with an axe. Luckily, the police arrive just in time.As the credits roll, the cops explain all of it to us. It's such a weird ending, with an overly long explanation fighting for screen time with the names of the gaffers.This movie just felt like a slog. I continually kept checking to see how much more time was left. I hate when movies make me do that.

***SPOILERS*** Maude Chlamers,Kay Hawtrey, was forced to convert the family funeral home into a bed & breakfast after her husband the undertaker & embalmer disappeared a number of years ago leaving her all alone and unable to keep it running. It's when Maude's granddaughter Heather, Lesleh Donaldson, showed up for summer vacation that people or guests at the bed & breakfast started disappearing at record levels. It wasn't until much later we get the drift in what exactly is going on in the place from Mr. Davis, Barry Morse, one of the guest there who's trying to track down his missing wife Helena who, like most of those that disappeared in the movie, was once a guest there herself.It's Heather who soon finds out the secret that her grandmother Maude has been keeping from her and the world and that put both her and her boyfriend Rick, Dean Garbett, lives in mortal danger. As for Mr. Davis his snooping around the bed & breakfast and finding out what happened to his wife cost him his life! But that soon opened up a whole can of worms in unleashing the horror that was soon to come in the film. That with the unseen ax killer losing it and, in his or her uncontrollable murder spree, exposing himself as well as uncovering a number of bodies he hid over the years on the bed & breakfast grounds.****SPOILERS**** What is an obvious re-make of "Psycho" the film "Funeral Home" like "Psycho" keeps the body count, four, low but the tension high giving it time for character development of the killer's victims where you feel that their human beings not inanimate objects like in most slasher films. The final scene where both Heather & Rick find out who's been doing the killings in fact is even more shocking then in the final scene of "Psycho"! Where in this case the two had to fight for their lives not just find out who the killer is as he or she's being apprehended before he can do any damage. There's also the mystery of the mysterious black cat that we see all throughout the film that is never explained by the scriptwriters. The black cat seems to be at the scene of every murder as if it knew, like some kind of premonition, it would happen in advance!

Maude Calmers'(Kay Hawtrey) husband has disappeared. He ran the local funeral home. To make ends meet she converts it into a bed and breakfast and her niece Heather (Lesleh Donaldson) comes to help her. After it opens guests start disappearing and Heather hears voices from the basement at night. She's determined to find out what's going on with the help of her boyfriend Rick (Dean Garbett).Creepy little Canadian horror film. It was made on a low budget and is kind of obvious (you'll see the ending coming a mile away) but it still works. There's plenty of creepy scenes (especially the first long shot that goes from the top floor of the house to the basement...where you hear voices) and the ending where everything goes wild. The ending is VERY rushed...it looks like they ran out of money. The final explanation is explained WHILE the closing credits are running! Still I was entertained. Good acting by the whole cast too. There's next to no blood, no gore and no nudity, sex or swearing so you may wonder how it got the R rating. Not an unsung classic just a small tight little horror movie.

After reading some favourable reviews, I was hoping that this little known flick would become a newly discovered gem. Or, at least with a title such as "Funeral Home", have some creepy moments. No such luck.Things begin with some promise; Mr Chalmers' disappearance, and the general feeling that something not quite right is afoot. Unfortunately, this movie just drags and drags. Way too much time is wasted on setting up a red herring that is crystal clear to the viewer from the start. There's too many scenes of the girl snooping around the cellar that could have been better spent on...I don't know, more than two crappy murder scenes? This is really more of a bad made for TV drama than a horror film. Clunky, highly uninspired and drawn out. The "twist" is also something anyone can see coming a mile off. I won't mention which classic it rips off...To conclude: Not the worst I've seen, but Funeral Home is sinking just below "mediocre." It's a charmless drama fest.