FUNERAL HOME / Canadian Film Development Corporation - 1980

Tabonga here... Tonite's feature is about a girl who arrives at her grandmother's house to help her turn it into a bed-and-breakfast inn, the place actually used to be a funeral home. After they open the inn though, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead! Original title is CRIES IN THE NIGHT, and, sounds like a typical stale old tale from the eighties...

The music is by Jerry Fielding, and, Jerry had a very decent career with composing credits for films like FOR THOSE WHO THINK YOUNG, MCHALE'S NAVY, THE WILD BUNCH, SUPPOSE THEY HAD A WAR AND NOBODY CAME?, STRAW DOGS, CHATO'S LAND, THE MECHANIC, DEMON SEED and THE BAD NEWS BEARS. He also worked on these TV shows... THE LIFE OF RILEY, THE BETTY HUTTON SHOW, TELL IT TO GROUCHO, THE RIFLEMAN, THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER, HOGAN'S HEROES, STAR TREK, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, MANNIX, THE BRIAN KEITH SHOW, POLICE WOMAN, KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER and THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN!

Letz bring in our littlest Dungeon helper and button pusher, Rufus The Gnat! Rufus is here to start our show, so, push the big red 'GO' button there next to the magazine rack, now, Rufus! Here's our Eariffic Soundclip for... FUNERAL HOME!

Heather comes to help her grandma set up a bed-and-breakfast in her old, ex-funeral home...

Barry Morse gets 3rd billing as Mr. Davis, big time fisherman. Just check out this partial list of his work on TV... HAUNTED STUDIO, SUSPENSE, THE UNFORSEEN, 'WAY OUT, TWILIGHT ZONE, THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR, THE OUTER LIMITS, THE INVADERS, THE STARLOST, JOURNEY THROUGH THE BLACK SUN, ALIEN ATTACK, SPACE: 1999, DESTINATION MOONBASE-ALPHA, THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, SEEING THINGS, THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER, DRACULA: THE SERIES, TEKWAR and SPACE ISLAND ONE!

Of course, there's a creepy mentally challenged grounds keeper, which always make me think of SCREAMING SKULL.

Girls finishing a canoe, people jumping from strange looking cliffs in unison, welcome to Ontario, Canada!

And, when's not a good time for teasing the hired help?!

There's a stench of mystery in the air!.. Other stuff, too.

Mr. Davis lets Maude, Heather's grandma, know that he suspects her of the recent disappearances of some of the inn's tourists, and, well, you can see what happens when he goes out fishing that night!

Ooo-la-la!

While this girl is diving, she discovers one of the missing tourists!

And, it's one Hell of a spectacle when they retrieve her and the car from the water...

Brainiac is there so that the viewer keeps thinking that he could be involved.

But, before long, he's out of the running as a suspect!

Yep, it's the grandma, old Maude Chalmers!!

Heather finally gets to meet her dead cousin, Phil!

Put this in because it looks like my kitty, Boo, like if you tried to mess with her.

Please come with me, you crazy old lady, you!