Cries in the Night

Funeral Home
Original theatrical poster
Directed byWilliam Fruet
Screenplay byIda Nelson
Produced by
  • Barry Allen
  • William Fruet
Starring
CinematographyMark Irwin
Edited byRalph Brunjes
Music byJerry Fielding
Distributed by
  • Frontier Amusements
  • Motion Picture Marketing
Release date
  • October 3, 1980 (1980-10-03)[1]
Running time
93 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.3 million[2]

Cries in the Night, more popularly released as Funeral Home,[3] is a 1980 Canadian slasher film directed by William Fruet and starring Lesleh Donaldson, Kay Hawtrey, Jack Van Evera, Alf Humphreys, and Harvey Atkin. The plot follows a teenager spending the summer at her grandmother's inn—formerly a funeral home—where guests begin to disappear.

Briefly released in eastern Canada in 1980, the film premiered in the United States and was re-released in its native Canada under the alternative title Funeral Home in the summer of 1982. It received mixed reviews from critics, with several noting it as starkly redolent of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960).[4][5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference kitchener was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Donahue 1987, p. 297.
  3. ^ Pratley 2003, p. 255.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference walsh was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Muir 2012, p. 241.