Stage Fright Summary
Director: Michele Soavi
Genres: Horror
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Horror film actor Michele_Soavi's directorial debut was this stylish giallo thriller about an escaped lunatic terrorizing the cast of a stage musical who get locked in a theater after dark. David_Brandon, Barbara_Cupisti, and perennial victim Giovanni_Lombardo_Radice (aka "John_Morghen") lead the cast, most of whom spend their time sniping at each other with amusingly typical backstage cruelty. The murder scenes are the film's primary attraction, artfully handled by Soavi in setpieces such as a blue-lighted stage strewn with feather-covered bodies. The killer wears an owl mask, which is offputting at first but seems progressively more sinister as the film goes along. Soavi's stylistic mentor, Dario_Argento, directed the similar Opera the same year, while this one was produced by Aristide_Massaccesi ("Joe D'Amato") from a script by actor Luigi_Montefiori ("George Eastman"). Robert Firsching, Rovi
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