The peering eyes of a demented clown taunted me. And of course, this new film stalking the shelves in the Summer of that year by then-unknown filmmaker Victor Salva caught my attention. Classic films like The Blob remake and Popcorn would have slid right by me in this era had it not been for those glorious artwork promos on the plastic rental box staring at you from afar like a lonely stranger begging for conversation. I’ve written countless times about how the hypnotizing VHS art covers opened up a world of horror I may have never known about before. Walking around the horror section in 1990 at my local mom and pop rental store Action Video, was definitely a highlight in my childhood. Let’s start with my first experience with it:
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At the end of the day, I got some things to say so we’re diving into this really troublesome movie that has become the true horror fan’s forbidden fruit. I mind-wrestled since the beginning of Nightmare Nostalgia on the notion to ever even write about this film, and here we are finally. It’s a total pain in the ass.Ĭlownhouse: A true video nasty if there ever was one. If even one pixel of Leatherface breathes too close to these in-game hazards, you’re stuck for a good couple of seconds.
The obstacles I mentioned above, as it turns out, you better steer clear of them. But one thing that really irked me about this game other than the inability for game developers to give Leatherface’s body a different color than the chainsaw, is the fact your character gets “stuck” quite easily. It’s a fun way to murder ten minutes of your life. So, just an educated guess here, the point is to kill off as many people as you can before running out of gas. When you run out of fuel, you lose a life. The chainsaw in the game is run on fuel, and when you press the appropriate button to run it, your fuel starts to deplete. It’s heavily rumored throughout the gamer community that the high-pitched tones you hear when a victim appears is actually supposed to be a girl’s scream. You basically just run across a field of cow skulls and wheelchairs trying to get to your next victim. Unlike the Halloween game, gamer roles are reversed and you actually get to play as Leatherface with a chainsaw attached to his dick. So now enjoy The Funhouse as I once did over 30 years ago!Īnother horror treasure from Wizard Video brings the Tobe Hooper classic to the Atari world in 1982. Instead of focusing on the kill, the camera keeps panning away to those again, creepy Funhouse animatronic terrors that line the walls of the terror ride. One of my personal favorite little bits may be trivial but I actually kind of prefer the televised scene of Gunther strangling the slutty fortune teller. Both alternate and deleted scenes are included offering a different look for Funhouse fans. Uploaded courtesy of Goremeister100, the clip shown below offers fifteen glorious minutes of what was seen in Hooper’s cult classic during a televised showing. Such as with The Funhouse, as I had actually seen this full-blown, yet edited for violence gem from Hooper first. While they don’t necessarily add anything prominent to the feature, it’s still pretty fun to view an alternative variant of one of your favorite movies. For example, the televised version of John Carpenter’s Halloween usually had axed or alternate scenes from the theatrical cut included in an airing.
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TV runnings of certain films tend to differ from theatrical versions with either an addition or subtraction of scenes to accommodate time slots. Hypothetically speaking, the rest of the movie could have been 100% trash and I would still love it as much I do today based alone on that creepy as shit opener filled with animatronic nightmares. TV Guide, it didn’t matter one bit as I was immediately suckered in through those glorious opening credits. Knowing nothing other than the brief synopsis from Mr. Low and behold, according to the Holy Bible of TV programming, I was just in time for a little film called The Funhouse, which I had never seen prior. Grabbing the TV Guide, I skimmed up at the clock to see it was almost 1:00 PM and that meant Saturday afternoon movies on Vegas 33, who were pretty notorious for showcasing horror films on the weekend for us young genre aficionados. Hence, along with the pitter-patter of the rain hitting the rooftop, it seemed like a good time to settle in with a little basic TV. After a glorious morning filled with two bowls of Yummy Mummy cereal and Super Mario 2 on my highly coveted Nintendo Entertainment System, the combination of 8-bit eyes and a sugar crash began to settle in. It was an early rainy Saturday afternoon in 1988.
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