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Stage Fright – Sing Your Heart Out

Everyone is aware of the fact that the most interesting subgenre of horror is the musical horror. There are some great examples of entertaining horror musicals that did the job, including Frank Oz’s Little Shop of Horrors and Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. However, horror musicals in general lack the cutting edge to help them rise above the limitations of the genre and become mainstream successes. This is where Stage Fright faces its biggest challenge. No doubt there is a market for horror movies but do the people want to see a horror musical?

Starring Allie MacDonald as Camilla Swanson, a shy singer disturbed by her past, who wants to follow in the footsteps of her mother who was murdered on the opening night performance of “The Haunting of the Opera”. Camilla does everything she can to get the lead role in the play and fulfill her dreams, but she doesn’t know she is the target of the bloodlust of a killer, who kills anyone who believes that the show must go on.

The concept of this movie is creative which allows the director of the movie, Jerome Sable, to experiment and have some fun along the way. The songs and the set-ups are solid and the violence is wicked, in a way that should appeal to horror lovers. The only drawback is that the movie has been made on a low budget. It is quite clear that the low budget constrained the director’s vision and he could have gone for a grander scale had he gotten the money for it.
Even with the slight bumps due to the low budget, the movie has all the ingredients of being a good horror musical. Best of all, it has a sense of mischievousness in its mix of music, comedy and horror that make it inventive and a great addition to this interesting subgenre.

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