History YMMV / TheFunhouse

* LesYay: The girls are really interested to peek the strip show. Upped by a factor in the novelization during an additional scene where the two girls discuss possibly taking their dates home for what sounds like a sort of foursome but which, it is implied, would really come down to the two girls...enjoying themselves with each other. There's even a breast grope mentioned.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: EVERYTHING with Joey. As Website/TheAgonyBooth video reviewer The Fear Fan points out, if you cut out his scenes you wouldn't impact the movie at all.
** changes in the novelization, where his role is expanded (he's also implied to be younger than in the movie)

* LesYay: The girls are really interested to peek the strip show.
** Upped by a factor in the novelization (written by Dean Koontz under the name Owen West) during an additional scene where the two girls discuss possibly taking their dates home for what sounds like a sort of foursome but which, it is implied, would really come down to the two girls...enjoying themselves with each other. There's even a breast grope mentioned.
* WhatAnIdiot: Richie. He is the one who convinces his friends to spend the night at the funhouse, which puts then in harm's way in the first place. He is also the only one who steals money from the barker, resulting in all four of them being targeted for murder.

** changes in the novelization, where his role is expanded (he's also implied to be younger than in the movie.

* WhatAnIdiot: Richie.

* JerkassWoobie: Ellen (at least in the novelization). Yes, she's a alcoholic hypocrite who is an almost-frightening Christian, who has an obsession with sin and has an uncomfortable habit of [[spoiler:sneaking into her young son's room to watch him suspiciously as he sleeps]]. However, it's not very hard to understand why: [[spoiler:as a teenager, Ellen's attempt at rebelling against her parents led her to be trapped in an abusive common-law marriage with a Satanist who used her to breed a deformed child who he claimed was the Antichrist. After the child dies, Ellen manages to escape, but the experience has left her with severe trauma and obvious mental health issues - which are never addressed, as this happened in the 60's and 70's when the treatment of mental health was much more problematic and shamed than it is now. Not to mention Ellen is right to be paranoid about her children's welfare, although not quite the way she thinks, as her ex-husband has spent the last twenty years trying to find her children so he can murder them in revenge.]]

* JerkassWoobie: Ellen (at least in the novelization). Yes, she's a alcoholic hypocrite who is an almost-frightening Christian, who has an obsession with sin and has an uncomfortable habit of [[spoiler:sneaking into her young son's room to watch him suspiciously as he sleeps]]. However, it's not very hard to understand why: [[spoiler:as a teenager, Ellen's attempt at rebelling against her parents led her to be trapped in an abusive common-law marriage with a Satanist who used her to breed a deformed child who he claimed was the =AntiChrist=. After the child dies, Ellen manages to escape, but the experience has left her with severe trauma and obvious mental health issues - which are never addressed, as this happened in the 60's and 70's when the treatment of mental health was much more problematic and shamed than it is now. Not to mention Ellen is right to be paranoid about her children's welfare, although not quite the way she thinks, as her ex-husband has spent the last twenty years trying to find her children so he can murder them in revenge.]]

* JerkassWoobie: Ellen (at least in the novelization). Yes, she's a alcoholic hypocrite who is an almost-frightening Christian, who has an obsession with sin and has an uncomfortable habit of [[spoiler:sneaking into her young son's room to watch him suspiciously as he sleeps]]. However, it's not very hard to understand why: [[spoiler:as a teenager, Ellen's attempt at rebelling against her parents led her to be trapped in an abusive common-law marriage with a Satanist who used her to breed a deformed child who he claimed was the AntiChrist. After the child dies, Ellen manages to escape, but the experience has left her with severe trauma and obvious mental health issues - which are never addressed, as this happened in the 60's and 70's when the treatment of mental health was much more problematic and shamed than it is now. Not to mention Ellen is right to be paranoid about her children's welfare, although not quite the way she thinks, as her ex-husband has spent the last twenty years trying to find her children so he can murder them in revenge.]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The first time we see Joey, he surprises his sister int he shower with a rubber knife as a prank and later, goes to the carnival to find her. People have reacted to this in two ways: 1) he is an AnnoyingYoungerSibling who just wants to play pranks and is too young to understand how odd it might be to see his sister naked (or at the very least, he is in a family who might be less modest than others) or 2) a creepy sociopath who watches his sister in the shower and silently stalks her.

* TitleConfusion / MisBlamed: Legend has it that this film was included on the VideoNasties list due to confusion with ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_House_on_Dead_End_Street Last House on Dead End Street]]'', a far more violent and disturbing film [[SimilarlyNamedWorks that was also]] released on video as ''The Funhouse''.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: EVERYTHING with Joey. As WebOriginal/AgonyBooth video reviewer The Fear Fan points out, if you cut out his scenes you wouldn't impact the movie at all.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: EVERYTHING with Joey. As AgonyBooth video reviewer The Fear Fan points out, if you cut out his scenes you wouldn't impact the movie at all.