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Stage Fright
Being working in the kitchen of arts camp performing for the rich, day-dreaming teenager Camilla Swanson always brings up her admire to be a Broadway diva. She sneaks into audition for summer showcase and plays a lead role but just as rehearsals begin, blood starts to spill, the theater is in fear of haunting and terrorism by a a blood-thirsty musical-hating killer.
22 June 1985, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1983, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
23 September 1998, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
May 08, 2014
Whether it's being sexy, jokey or homicidal, "Stage Fright" doesn't deliver the goods with sufficient spirit. It lacks the sparkle to be a truly killer show.
May 08, 2014
Give the movie some zip, a few memorable songs and a stronger third act, and (to paraphrase Mr. Sondheim) something good's just out of reach.
July 03, 2014
Sable's slasher entry delivers a devilish wink and is surprisingly spirited in its gruesome gumption.
August 30, 2014
Stage Fright mashes the gory whodunnit set-pieces of every slasher you've ever seen with the let's-put-on-a-show glee of, well, Glee, while throwing in easter-egg allusions to, inter alia, Psycho and Carrie.
August 24, 2015
Clear evidence of filmmakers who love musical theater and slasher flicks in equal measure.
May 09, 2014
Writer-director Jerome Sable, who co-wrote the songs with Eli Batalion, has a sharp ear for musical pastiche, from Andrew Lloyd Weber to heavy metal. But he comes up flat on the horror-musical spoof.
August 05, 2014
Stage Fright almost works as a pitch-perfect parody of '80s b-grade slashers, but succumbs to many of the genre's same weaknesses.
May 09, 2014
"Stage Fright" could have been so much fun.
May 08, 2014
This horror musical has about 20 comically inspired minutes before devolving into increasingly moribund genre-spoofing territory.
May 15, 2014
Likely to inspire much exiting stage left and right.
January 08, 2016
Written and directed by Jerome Sable, Stage Fright is a clever, gory and wickedly fun time that truly celebrates everything we love about horror musicals with an unabashed enthusiasm that you can't help but fall in love with.

