The Funhouse

A group of teenagers heads to a traveling carnival that has set up outside town, with Amy going along against her parents' wishes. After sampling the rides and attractions, Amy, her boyfriend Buzz, and their friends Liz and Richie decide to spend the night inside the funhouse, the carnival's dark ride. While hiding there, they witness a murder committed by a deformed, masked figure who works at the carnival, and they find themselves trapped inside the ride as the killer and his family hunt for them before the carnival moves on.

The film was directed by Tobe Hooper, the third of the fifteen features he directed, following Eaten Alive and preceding Poltergeist. Lawrence J. Block wrote the screenplay, and Steven Bernhardt and Derek Power produced it for Universal Pictures and Mace Neufeld Productions. Elizabeth Berridge plays Amy, with Cooper Huckabee as Buzz, Kevin Conway as the barker, Largo Woodruff as Liz, Miles Chapin as Richie, and Jeanne Austin as Mrs. Harper. The credited cast numbers twenty-nine and the credited crew sixty-six.

Made for about three million dollars, the film took in roughly eight million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 5.9 out of 10 from around eighteen thousand votes, and on TMDB 5.9 out of 10 from just over four hundred votes. A critics' rating of 6.2 out of 10 from twenty-one reviews places it slightly above those audience scores.