Cries in the Night

12/11/2024

**_Through the woods to Grandmother's house we go_** A young woman (Lesleh Donaldson) ventures to the rural Northeast to stay with her grandmother (Kay Hawtrey) at an old home that used to be a funeral parlor. As they work on morphing it into a bed-and-breakfast, she attends to the needs of the sometimes obnoxious guests while dating a young man. But something really weird is going on, particularly in the locked basement. Shot in the dead of summer, 1979, “Funeral Home” is also known as “Cries in the Night.” It cost $1,400,000 in Canadian dollars, which would be equal to about $5,050,000 today. I point this out because that’s more than enough money to make a competent movie of this sort. Thankfully, it is proficiently made. You buy the people and their situation as a real in the mann