Synopsis
Sing Your Heart Out!
A high-end musical theater camp is terrorized by a bloodthirsty killer who hates musical theater.
2014 Directed by Jerome Sable
A high-end musical theater camp is terrorized by a bloodthirsty killer who hates musical theater.
Allie MacDonald Meat Loaf Douglas Smith Minnie Driver Brandon Uranowitz Melanie Leishman Thomas Alderson Kent Nolan Ephraim Ellis Leanne Miller James McGowan Eli Batalion Greg Dunham Steffi DiDomenicantonio Darren Summersby Adrianna Di Liello Ryan Bobkin Tristan Slade Mitchell Jeni Ross Chelsey Pozdyk John Stead Rick Miller Jada Robinson Dan Levy Ty Forhan Billy Shepperd
Kelly Jones Dana Jones John Stead Nick Stead Bernadette Couture Mary Ann Stevens Neil Adams Jennifer Murray
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This was a really fun watch. A theater campy slasher comedy. Solid opening kill. Meatloaf runs a theater camp. Didn’t realize Minnie Driver was in this, and she was great. I love musicals, but the musical numbers in this weren’t very good musically, even if this lyrics were pretty funny at times. The best songs all around were actually the killers heavy metal interludes. Really fun finish with lots of familiar recognizable horror tropes. It dragged quite a bit in the opening introduction of the theater camp, but even those party were campy enough that I wasn’t ever bored. I’m definitely very curious about the Stage Fright predecessors. Are they similar? Connected? Musicals? Comedies? I’ll have to check out my fellow slasher squad reviews to see if I’m missing out on something. Really liked this one though.
Degrees of Kevin Bacon: 1
1. Minnie Driver and Kevin Bacon in Sleepers
Stage Fright nails what it sets out to do as far as I’m concerned—loaded with surprisingly brutal kills, enjoyable songs, multiple genre nods that are tastefully done, and a super solid cast all around. Love the kabuki masked killer, Minnie Driver, the pinhead mannequin head, the excessive gore, Meat Loaf, and just how fun vibed this blood drenched musical gem is... what a a unique little spin on the slasher genre—plus I’m def down to clown with any movie that names it’s camp “camp manitou”
Another one of those movies that I saw when it was first released but was basically too high on pills to remember, well here I am too sober for anyone’s good and rewatching like it’s the first time and yeah, it’s pretty damn good.
It has a phenomenal opening with Minnie Driver, Meat Loaf, and some very unexpected excessive gore and I looooove Minnie Driver. It gets a little iffy after the opening credits with that first musical number and I think it’s because it happens before you’ve really gotten a chance to groove with the movie’s sense of humor and it’s just a little side eyeish, but then it kicks into gear and gets really fun.
If you can’t…
#SlasherSaturday
Catch-up cluster 1/5
Hey guys... I’m alive!
But seriously... After more than twenty years of wanting to be estranged from my father, I have finally cut ties. That act and now fact relieves me but unfortunately I have lost contact with my mother too as a result.
So, this movie hit hard even though normally it might not have.
To see Minnie Driver with a hairstyle like one of my mother’s and glowing in the stage lights, with a big backstage hug to her two children... well, it made me realize how hard it will be to go on without warm hugs from my mother. The absolute glow of Driver as a brilliant starlet mother really sets the stage,…
late-#SLASHERSATURDAY
Ive still been watching some movies, including this one, but I’m in the process of moving/organizing shit around+I finally got that new GOW game in the middle of it all lmao. So I just haven’t been able to put my focus together to write something up. Sorry for the lag squad!
The musical numbers can take things down a bit. I’m just simply not into musicals🤷♂️, BUT the slashin was pretty fun, with some solid kills. Also the chance it’s a remake of the 80s StageFright, which I fucking loved, had me excited, yet still did it’s own thing entirely. So that all said, the mystery/killer was very obvious and overall it was a bit messy in those final moments. Decent enough for a musical slasher tho. 5.6/10🔪
"How's that for a quick change" - the killer's banter,
If that's what happens at theater camp then they all deserved to die.
A dude who hates musical theater starts killing people at a musical theater camp... you know, because he hates musical theater. Musical horrors are as they should be.... rare. They can be kind of fun and occasionally quite scary.... Stage Fright is neither but there are a few hoots to be had when you're not listening to the dreadful music. I think this is an issue of production value over script.
Sometimes people have cool ideas for kills and forget to make the rest of the stuff good and I think that's what happens in Stage Fright.…
A Canadian meta-musical, slasher-killer horror film, "Stage Fright" is probably a decade away from being a cult favorite. In ten years or so, people will probably memorize the lyrics of the self-aware musical numbers from this "High School Musical"-meets-"Sleepaway Camp"-styled piece of work and attend midnight screenings of it in indie theaters. Right now, however, this admittedly audacious genre mash-up rates as only a watchable film that does not commit fully to either of its conceits.
The story revolves around a summer theater camp where the counselors and campers are putting on a musical tongue-in-cheekily called "The Haunting of the Opera." While the show is in production, a serial slasher knocks off campers with bug nuts enthusiasm. Also, the campers…
This movie has brutal kills, a guy singing about how musicals make him gay, a musical hating killer who sings metal, and Meat Loaf. I loved it.
My Eyes Hurt When I Go Outside, It's Too Bright!!! (or, My Halloween Horrorfest 2018) Movie #26 (https://boxd.it/25cXe )
If musical theatre featured more Kabuki mask wearing, theatrical Heavy Metal screaming, serial killers then I think I may have turned out to be a theatre kid as well. I have a lovely voice. My Mom told me so.
I really have a lot of fun with this movie. The songs are catchy, the blood is bloody, the killer is cool as heck, and Meat Loaf is the dude running the camp. It's a musical comedy camp mystery slasher flick with a mannequin head that looks like Pinhead and a bucket of blood straight out of Carrie. And Minnie Driver has a brief cameo at the beginning.
"Break a leg!"
Despite some fun kills, 🔥METAL INTERLUDES🔥, & my soft spot for a squishy Meat Loaf, my near-nonexistent patience for campy musicals kinda obliterated any hope of a positive review for Stage Fright (2014).
🐆🐆1/2
2.5 outta 5 AWWW! Way to go, JAGS 🥲
Bc I love a good underdog...
& BIG cats
PS: that Ben Henrickson boy still ain't right 😅😬