A family moves to a small California town where they plan on starting a new life running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the place, suspected to be on haunted ground.
Practical Effects
Gloriously goopy practical effects that aged like milk.
Production
Actual abandoned mortuary location saves the budget.
Director
Tobe Hooper
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hooper was reportedly fired mid-production; reshoots by another director explain the tonal whiplash.
This was Hooper's final theatrical feature—a sad coda for a horror legend, or fittingly messy?
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