The Funhouse (1981)

Rebellious teen Amy (Elizabeth Berridge) defies her parents by going to a trashy carnival that has pulled into town. In tow are her boyfriend, Buzz (Cooper Huckabee), and their friends Liz (Largo Woodruff) and Richie (Miles Chapin). Thinking it would be fun to spend the night in the campy "Funhouse" horror ride, the teens witness a murder by a deformed worker wearing a mask. Locked in, Amy and her friends must evade the murderous carnival workers and escape before it leaves town the next day.

Initial release: 13 March 1981

Director: Tobe Hooper

Box office: 7.8 million USD

Screenplay: Lawrence Block

Producers: Mace Neufeld, Derek Power, Steven Bernhardt

Carnival of Souls

Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances.

Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man (Herk Harvey). 

As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

Initial release: 1 June 1962

Director: Herk Harvey

Budget: 30,000 USD

Cinematography: Maurice Prather

Screenplay: Herk Harvey, John Clifford

Tales That Witness Madness.

In a late-night meeting, a psychiatrist recounts four disturbing patient cases to a colleague, from a boy with an imaginary tiger to a cannibal luau organised by a literary agent.

Initial release: 31 October 1973

Director: Freddie Francis

Screenplay: Jennifer Jayne

Producer: Norman Priggen

Production company: Amicus Productions