1987 · horror · slasher · giallo
StageFright
Directed by Michele Soavi1h 30m1987
While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum.
Our read: StageFright (1987) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · slasher · giallo entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / slasher, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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