Nonureva Really Surprised!

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Rainey Dawn This one took me by surprise... I wasn't expecting the film to be as good as it is. It is Psycho-ish but not a rip off of Hitchcock's classic but the film does share some similarities with the Psycho films.A young girl goes to stay with her grandmother because her grandfather came up missing. While he was around, he ran a funeral home from the house but now that he's gone grandmother needed some money and she decided to keep the house with running a bed and breakfast from it with the help of her granddaughter. Several people have come up missing from the small tourist town and most of the local police don't give it much thought because they are adults and most of the rumors are thought to be idol gossip anyway - but there is one rookie cop that thinks something deeper is going on but is having problems getting the other cops and some of the townspeople to take him seriously. When more people come up missing the investigations go deeper. The granddaughter is becoming frightened from some of the subtle but odd things going on inside grandma's B&B home.Very good film - I really enjoyed this one!! 8.5/10

Aaron1375 I am kind of surprised to see the score of this film on the plus side of five. I found it to be completely boring as I had the ending pegged about ten minutes into this one. So once you have the twist ending figured out all there is left to do is watch the deaths and hope they are bloody, hope for some nudity or hope they pull a fast one and the ending is not exactly what you are expecting. Well, the deaths are few and far between with only one really good one near the end of the film. The main girl of the piece is cute, but looks too young to show any skin and she doesn't and the one guest at the inn who is having an affair is not someone you want to see naked and thankfully she does not. Then the ending comes and it is exactly what I was expecting. The only thing that was surprising was the end where the police officer basically explained what had happened in what almost seemed like a television show wrap up.The story has a young lady going to her grandmother's place to help her set it up as a tourist house of some sort. Basically a bed and breakfast as for reasons unknown this town is some sort of attraction. Seriously, the only thing of note is a quarry where people go swimming. The inn used to be a funeral home and when we first see it I was thinking that the place was in worse shape than the one in Fulci's The Beyond. Guests actually start staying at the place and an obnoxious couple having an affair begin to get under the skin of both grandma and her helper outside. The young lady begins hearing voices from the cellar and people start disappearing while the local law enforcement with the exception of the newest addition seems to not care that people are disappearing.The film was a complete bore to me, I can stand a bad horror, but I hate boring ones and this was very boring to me. I do not know what others saw in this one, but all I saw was a very poorly done and acted ripoff of Psycho. Like I said, that ending was completely telegraphed right from the get go. Without any surprise you may get from the ending you are left with nothing to enjoy about the film other than the one kill near the end. One kill in an hour and a half movie cannot save or elevate this one all that high. Almost seemed a movie Mystery Science Theater could have riffed as the end scene where the killer was attacking you could not tell where the killer was in relation to the where the girl was. Just bad and boring with an ending that is easily figured out the moment you hear voices in the cellar.

TheBlueHairedLawyer I know it as Funeral Home, but Cries in the Night is what at first appears to be a dull, repetitive movie... and the next thing you know it all builds up to something truly horrifying. A girl goes to visit her elderly grandmother as she renovates her deceased husband's creepy funeral home into an inn. Mayhem ensues when people begin disappearing... but the murderer is who you'd least expect.I was honestly surprised at whom the killer turned out to be, and that the film involved M.P.D. similar to the mental condition Corky has with his ventriloquist dummy in the 1978 film Magic. The soundtrack was freaky and the acting generally decent enough, I think this unappreciated little slasher deserves a larger audience. If you ever come across it, be sure to check it out!

Mikel3 Yesterday I watched a 1980 horror film called 'Funeral Home'. I've been getting a lot of use out of our Amazon Prime membership during these cold winter days. This was a cross between 'Psycho', 'Little Red Riding Hood' and Ma Kettle, a character you might remember from old films. The premise was a young woman comes to help her friendly grandmother. They are turning her old funeral home into a sort of Bed and Breakfast to make money to keep the place. Grandma's husband, the funeral director, had disappeared years earlier. Also, there have been other mysterious disappearances in the area. It wasn't a bad movie, just dragged a bit at times and was predictable. It was not excessively gory, too much gore is a turn off for me. The only actor in it I recognized was Barry Morse from 'Space 1999'. If you like stories about mysterious psycho killers like '1979s 'Tourist Trap' this should fit the bill.