Cries in the Night

1982 "They were warned, they were all warned... "Don't go down to the cellar!""
5.1| 1h33m| R| en
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A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Protraph Lack of good storyline.
Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
Sam Panico 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.
Michael Ledo Heather (Lesleh Donaldson) our nubile teen in pigtails, arrives at Grandma Chalmers' (Kay Hawtrey) converted "tourist home" outside of Elora, Ontario. It was once a funeral home, hence the title. Maude Chalmers does an early "Psycho" scene giving away the entire mystery making the addition of the goofy guy to create a mystery a bust. The characters were stereotypes. Acting was fair, but the script didn't give them a chance.Perhaps my biggest objection was that the all black cat was named "Mittens" a named revered for cats with different colored paws, Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity. Maude wouldn't allow it.
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.
acidburn-10 Plot = A young woman goes out to the countryside to help her grandmother turn her old funeral home into a tourist motel, but it seems that some of the guests aren't very friendly and seem to be disappearing and that grandmother seems to be keeping someone in the cellar, could it be connected to the disappearing guests.I've heard some good things about this movie and went in with high expectations, but when I saw it, I was a little disappointed. For a start it's way too slow paced and dark, I couldn't even make out what was going on half the time especially the nighttime scenes. The body count was also extremely low considering that this is billed as a slasher movie. Here's a movie which definitely had potential though, the story is pretty slick and it does have some potentially creepy scenes but it never gets very creepy as it is so poorly executed.What I did love about this movie was the central characters, the grandmother (Kay Hawtrey), she starts out as the typical lovable grandmother but as the movie progresses she becomes more and more strange especially when we discover that she's hiding something or someone in the cellar, she adds more and more layers to her character especially at the end. We also have 80's scream queen Lesleh Donaldson in a main part this time round after bowing out early in previous brilliant slashers (Curtains & Happy Birthday To Me), she does well in this movie and it's nice to see more of her this time round.The final 20 minutes of this movie echo's Psycho, but sadly I saw it coming a mile off, and although quite entertaining and made up for the boring first half of the movie, for me it came too little too late.All in all a good creepy thriller, but sadly it was way too slow paced and forgettable, although it does have some potental like interesting leads but just doesn't work as a slasher movie.