Stage Fright
Being working in the kitchen of arts camp performing for the rich, day-dreaming teenager Camilla Swanson always brings up her admire to be a Broadway diva. She sneaks into audition for summer showcase and plays a lead role but just as rehearsals begin, blood starts to spill, the theater is in fear of haunting and terrorism by a a blood-thirsty musical-hating killer.
30 May 1960, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
20 February 1989, Canada
22 June 1985, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
23 February 1985, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
26 December 1989, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
27 September 1947, Dallas, Texas, USA
23 September 1998, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
August 5, 1946 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
17 September 1988, Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada
1983, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
31 January 1970, Middlesex Hospital, London, England, UK
August 05, 2014
Stage Fright almost works as a pitch-perfect parody of '80s b-grade slashers, but succumbs to many of the genre's same weaknesses.July 03, 2014
Sable's slasher entry delivers a devilish wink and is surprisingly spirited in its gruesome gumption.August 24, 2015
Clear evidence of filmmakers who love musical theater and slasher flicks in equal measure.May 08, 2014
Give the movie some zip, a few memorable songs and a stronger third act, and (to paraphrase Mr. Sondheim) something good's just out of reach.January 08, 2016
Written and directed by Jerome Sable, Stage Fright is a clever, gory and wickedly fun time that truly celebrates everything we love about horror musicals with an unabashed enthusiasm that you can't help but fall in love with.May 08, 2014
This horror musical has about 20 comically inspired minutes before devolving into increasingly moribund genre-spoofing territory.May 09, 2014
Writer-director Jerome Sable, who co-wrote the songs with Eli Batalion, has a sharp ear for musical pastiche, from Andrew Lloyd Weber to heavy metal. But he comes up flat on the horror-musical spoof.August 30, 2014
Stage Fright mashes the gory whodunnit set-pieces of every slasher you've ever seen with the let's-put-on-a-show glee of, well, Glee, while throwing in easter-egg allusions to, inter alia, Psycho and Carrie.May 09, 2014
"Stage Fright" could have been so much fun.May 08, 2014
Whether it's being sexy, jokey or homicidal, "Stage Fright" doesn't deliver the goods with sufficient spirit. It lacks the sparkle to be a truly killer show.May 15, 2014
Likely to inspire much exiting stage left and right.