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.

[4][5] At the beginning of the summer, Heather arrives in a small unnamed town to stay with her eccentric and religious grandmother, Maude Chalmers, whose house—a former funeral home—has recently been converted into an inn.

Maude's husband, James, an undertaker, has been missing for several years, and she has been forced to make a living selling artificial flower arrangements; she hopes to supplant her income by opening the home to traveling guests.

Nearby, a farmer named Sam reports an abandoned vehicle discovered on his property, which is traced to a missing real estate developer who had been surveying the area.

That evening after having drinks, they drive to a local quarry recommended by Heather; while there, Maude's truck arrives, smashing the back of their car and pushing them into the water below, where they both drown.

The same night, Heather goes on a date with Rick, a local teenager, and returns home to hear her Maude speaking to an unseen man in the basement.

He tells Heather that her grandfather, James, was a known alcoholic, and recounts a story from his childhood in which Mr. Chalmers had locked him and a friend in the funeral home's basement to scare them.

That evening, Heather again hears Maude speaking to someone in the basement, this time arguing with a male voice about a woman named "Helena Davis."

[6] The building that stood in for the Chalmers Funeral Home was in actuality not a funeral home; it was a spacious mansion with gables located on Reesor Road in Markham, Ontario, and this house was later used again in an episode of the 1990s Canadian-American horror anthology series Goosebumps (as the O'Dell House in the 2-part episode "Night of the Living Dummy III"), which Fruet co-produced.

[2] Michael Walsh of The Province praised the film for its moody cinematography but felt the screenplay was too derivative of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), summarizing: "Burdened with a bland, obvious script and unwilling to indulge itself in truly explicit violence, [It] is neither mysterious nor particularly shocking.

"[4] Robert C. Trussell of The Kansas City Star gave the film an unfavorable review, remarking that it contained uninspired dialogue and poor character development, ultimately deeming it "so boring it could be recommended for heart patients.

"[13] Allan Ulrich of the San Francisco Examiner also described the film as lacking in suspense and excitement, writing that the plotting was "predictable, the denouement tiresome, the violence perfunctory.

"[16] Alternately, Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times praised the film for its empathetic character portrayals and "realistic Canadian style," as well as for Hawtrey's performance and the "capable supporting cast.

[5] Thomas Ellison of Retro Slashers.net gave the film a positive review, stating that "Funeral Home is the type of slasher that relies on story and actor performances...Fruet takes a much more atmospheric route."