I could never decide if I consider Tobe Hooper a hack or not. I know a lot of his films are flawed, but for some reason I always find myself watching movies like Eaten Alive and Lifeforce over and over. I’m kind of obsessed with a lot of stuff he has done, and never thought I would say I would be interested in seeing a remake of any of his films. However, after reading Dean Koontz’s version of The Funhouse, I realized how much better that movie could have been. So when I read Eli Roth’s idea on how he would want to remake it I was instantly sold.

Roth told Fangoria:

“I’m talking with Universal about that one,” Roth reveals. “The Funhouse is a movie where the first half is brilliant—they set up these great characters—and then they pay off none of them. You have Marco the Magician sawing his daughter in half, the brothers who run the carnival and the funhouse setting. And then it’s all about this weird mutant thing.

It should be about the kids getting killed in horrible ways, put in different contraptions in the funhouse and the final girl being strapped into the ride and sent into the tunnels to be confronted by terrifying tableaux of her dead friends. A smart remake could be so much fun. Kill the kids in fabulous ways and continually reuse the bodies by making them freaks in the freak museum, sew their eyes shut, waxworks… That’s the stuff I want to do in a remake of The Funhouse.”

Sounds great to me!