StageFright (1987, Michele Soavi)
StageFright (not to be confused with Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Stage Fright from 1950) is the directorial debut of Italian director Michele Soavi, who previously worked with Dario Argento as an assistant director (most noted in the 1985 film Creepers) directed this tasteless, boring and very ordinary slasher film that is just like any other slasher film that brings absolutely nothing new to the genre.
The plot is beyond simple, a musical about a mass murderer who’s known as the Knight Owl is being rehearsed. So of course a former actor who went berserk and killed over a dozen people a while back escapes from a nearby mental facility and starts killing off the cast of the musical. You can tell by watching this film that Argento has had an influence on Soavi, yet asides from this style, there is no real interest for the viewer, nor can the viewer care for any of the characters in the entire film, leaving us waiting for this movie to end.
The plot is beyond simple, a musical about a mass murderer who’s known as the Knight Owl is being rehearsed. So of course a former actor who went berserk and killed over a dozen people a while back escapes from a nearby mental facility and starts killing off the cast of the musical. You can tell by watching this film that Argento has had an influence on Soavi, yet asides from this style, there is no real interest for the viewer, nor can the viewer care for any of the characters in the entire film, leaving us waiting for this movie to end.
Michele Soavi also directed: Cemetery Man
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