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The Theatre Bizarre (2011)
Directed by Tom Savini, Buddy Giovinazzo, Richard Stanley, Karim Hussain, Jeremy Kasten, David Gregory, Douglas Buck
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Overview
Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people’s memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims’ eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep.
Rated R | Length 114 minutes
Actors
Udo Kier | Virginia Newcomb | Amanda Marquardt | Amelia M. Gotham | Catriona MacColl | Shane Woodward | Victoria Maurette | André Hennicke | Suzan Anbeh | Harvey Friedman | Debbie Rochon | Tom Savini | Lynn Lowry | Elissa Dowling | Erin Marie Hogan | Damon Packard | Whitney Moore | Kaniehtiio Horn
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/18/2013 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 1.5 stars |
| (Average) 1.5 stars |
Viewing Notes
An exhaustingly long and sub-par anthology film. The highlights are the wrap-around, Tom Savini’s segment and a portion of Karim Hussain’s before it gets all silly. I was most looking forward to new horror material from Richard Stanley but what he delivers here is so goofy and poorly acted it comes off as a giant disappointment even though it contains some interesting bits.
This is totally skippable.
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