The best horror anthology since Trick 'r Treat
What the hell happened to American horror? Remember when mainstream horror films actually offered either originality or creativity in the way victims died? Now we're practically spoon fed the same formula over and over and it doesn't help that more than half of the horror films getting the green light or being released in theaters are a remake of a film you love. The 70s, 80s, 90s, and even early 00s in some cases were a fantastic time for horror that seem to have gone the way of the dodo bird. The horror genre is no stranger to the anthology formula, but there's something about The Theatre Bizarre that manages to capture the atmosphere of certain horror films you know and love.
Tales From the Crypt, Dead of Night, Creepshow, Trick 'r Treat, and Tales From the Darkside: The Movie are a few films The Theatre Bizarre will either remind you of and/or it pays homage to. To bridge the story together, a woman is drawn to the worn down looking theater next door. Once inside, she's...
Five Stars Worth Of Weirdness...
THE THEATRE BIZARRE is a refreshingly blunt gutting, dismembering, and reassembling of the horror anthology film. No pussy-footing around here! From the Lovecraft-inspired doom-magik of MOTHER OF TOADS, to the gluttonous, cannibalistic overload of SWEETS, this movie is filled to the puking-point w/ a scheming witch (TOADS), a truly obsessive / psychotic relationship ("I LOVE YOU'), a series of emasculation nightmares (WET DREAMS), a meditation on the nature of death (THE ACCIDENT), a unique, life-stealing, vampire / addict (VISION STAINS), and the ultimate break-up story / ode to BLOOD FEAST (SWEETS). The wrap-around story (THEATRE GUIGNOL) holds these gooshy tales together like a slippery demon on her clutch of rancid eggs. Highly recommended for the non-squeamish and open-minded...
Looking for a film with witches, murder, Lovecraftian vaginas, eyeball injections, the Necromonicon, and naked toad monsters?
Looking for a film that witches, murder, Lovecraftian vaginas, eyeball injections, the Necromonicon, and naked toad monsters? Well, depending my interpretation of what I saw in the melee of short films here you may be in for all that and more...all be it in small doses. These short films vary substantially in film, acting, gore, direction and writing quality. We get to taste a lot of stories and ideas and, if we don't like one of the shorts after ten minutes, just wait ten more minutes for the next one to start. If you like anthologies then don't miss this.
A macabre-marionetted Udo Kier (Mother of Tears, Iron Sky) introduces the six unrelated stories of this anthology. I have provided an brief overview of each short film along with some opinions.
The Mother of Toads--directed by Richard Stanley (Hardware, The Profane Exhibit)
Vacationing in France, an American couple encounter an old lady (Catriona MacCall; The Beyond, City of the Living Dead) selling...
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