Fear Theatre - Horror Reviews

Scary, moody, gory, and just downright mean at points. When I grow up to be a big strong boy, I want to make slasher movies like this…

In my opinion, this is one of the daddies of the slasher movie genre - forget Michael Myers (pussy), Jason Vorhees (big girl’s blouse) and Freddy Krueger (this guy’s so chicken shit he waits until your sleeping before he kills you!); Irving Wallace is one of the chief slashers on the block, and that’s without any abnormal powers or fucking immortality!

A local theatre group is struggling to finish rehearsing their play before its grand opening.  It’s a musical based on the life of renowned serial killer Irving Wallace (WTF? Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat it ain’t). Being a bit of a prick, the director decides that they must all rehearse throughout the night to complete his sick masterpiece, and to force his point home, he locks all of the exits and hides the keys…what a bastard!

Unbeknownst to them, though, the real Irving Wallace has just escaped from a nearby mental institute and fancies taking in a show.  Luckily, his first victim just so happens to be the only cast member who knows where the keys are. This rehearsal becomes a lot more stressful as Mr. Wallace decides that the play about his life is a big pile of shit, and starts trimming the cast list in a variety of nasty and gruesome ways.

Michele Soavi (director of “The Church” and “The Sect”, both Dario Argento classics) has done us proud here and as an out-and-out slasher horror this movie has it all: a taught atmosphere throughout, excellent cinematography, good storyline, violent and bloody deaths, and even a good hardcore slasher killer in the silent yet deadly Irving Wallace; the madman actor who struts his funky stuff with a giant, menacing looking owl mask on.

Now where did I put those keys…

OFFICIAL REVIEW

In an old obsolete theatre a performance group are rehearsing for their new play ‘The Horror Musical’, a drama inspired by the real events connected to a sadistic mass murderer, Irving Wallace. They are blissfully unaware that Irving has escaped from a nearby asylum and is heading their way…

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