The Funhouse: One of the 80s Most Unsung Horror Delights The Funhouse: One of the 80s Most Unsung Horror Delights Horror directing legend Tobe Hooper directed The Funhouse in 1981 and it still remains a deliciously creepy classic horror movie. Tobe Hooper made an eruption of horror ingenuity with his second feature film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a gritty and grainy horror classic that would prove to be one of the most influential films in horror history. A brilliantly brutal, thoroughly disturbing, and strangely real-feeling slasher before slashers that favored hellish atmosphere over blood yet still feels like peak cinematic violence,Texas Chainsaw Massacre expressed Hooper was already a developing master of depicting terror on screen.