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I enjoyed this film, but I was always going to enjoy a musical slasher film starring Meatloaf. That combination alone was enough for me to wait for this eagerly for months.

But, this was a little disappointing, the songs were a bit tame, the killings were boring, and the end reveal of the killer was too obvious in the first part of the film that it was never going to be a surprise, not only was it clear who the killer was, you could guess the 'hidden' motive too.

That said, however, it's still a musical slasher film starring meatloaf... if you like the sound of that, then you can't go to far wrong here.

So that you know, there is a film out there about a summer camp for kids that's owned by Meat Loaf, with fully choreographed song and dance numbers – including lines like 'I'm gay, I'm gay but not in that way' - and a kabuki-masked, falsetto-screaming, guitar-squealing, knife-wielding slasher who hates musical theater and wants to kill the cast of a make-shift production of some-such copy-right-friendly version of 'Phantom of the Opera'. The gore was vivid, the laughs were steady, and I honestly don't think I need to report anything else to help you decide if this one is for you; it definitely has an audience and made for a very strange Late Night Picture Show.

After seeing the trailer a month or so ago, I was excited to see this film. I thought it looked like it could be a real hoot of a horror comedy. Unfortunately, I saw it last night, and it was a dismal waste of time. First of all, to call it a comedy is a huge stretch, as there are maybe a couple of jokes in the very first song at Musical Camp at the beginning. That's it. No other jokes or humor to speak of. It IS a musical slasher film, with tons of songs. In fact, except for a prologue murder, there is no killing until the last third of the movie. In between is lots of lifeless teen camp drama and songs. Because there are only a few main characters, it does not take a genius to figure out the final "surprise" revelations. I knew the answers before the movie was half-way through. The gore is minimal and uninventive. The acting is okay, I suppose. The writing, though, is really weak. The homages to classic horror films are trite and thoughtless.

I really want my time back. Neither funny nor scary. Just dumb.

I liked that it reminded to those good old horror movies from the 90's and giving that kind of vibe. But also, the addition of the musical element wasn't bad because it made more fun. However, I still felt like they could've played more with the whole theater/play situation instead of shying away with crowd-full musicals. The deaths were good, and had some very real makeup effects, but as they prefer eased with the story, they kept getting tamer and less over the top. Overall the acting was good, and even though the story and the whole killer reveal wasn't very impressive, it still managed to involve me into the movie and just enjoy it. And finally, I liked how the ending evoked many other horror movies with the mirror scene, by giving it that sense of suspense and horror without feeling too cliché.

This is, by far, one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It's only second to the queen of bad movies, Spring Breakers.

The main actress looked like she was doing this role to feed her crack addiction. I noticed something different in this movie from all the others. The murdering of young teens. Most slasher films I've seen usually don't have 13 and 14 year old kids being murdered.... I'm not sure if this film is pioneering a new generation of slasher films like from back in the day or it was just terribly made.

I just find it hard to believe I managed to watch the whole movie. Although, I do see it as a skill of mine to make it through piles of garbage, like this movie. I can't believe someone actually paid to have this movie made. Although I can't say I was sad to see the singing children go. :)

Today, we are five decades removed from the strong emergence of the slasher film as a staple sub-genre of horror in cinema. It's fair to assume that the pool of ideas had been running thin if one considers the abundance of remakes from classic franchises which already had more than a handful of sequels under their belts. Where does this leave us and the slasher film today, in 2014? It puts us in the theater, for a musical, in Stage Fright. Combining the behind the scenes process of what it takes to put on such a production within the narrative arc of the overarching movie which is also a musical, there are some clever dance and song numbers…that's really not what I was expecting to be complimenting this movie on before I watched it, but credit must be given where credit is due. Dancing and cleverness aside, this movie shines its brightest when it's at its darkest. A Kabuki mask-wearing hair metal-singing psycho is out to spoil the show, and in doing so he may very well be giving us a new slasher icon. The brilliance of this movie is how quickly and smoothly it brings the story between hilarity and tension, sometimes even merging the two. The musical aspects of the movie are excellently done. Each character or setting has a theme, which get intermingled and blended at appropriate times. Singing was really excellent where it needed to be, and intentionally sub-par or bad when called for as well. Best of all was the contrasting punch between the cheery musical score and the 80's power-chord heavy metal screaming that beefs up all the grisly gory shreddin' fun from our killer.

Nothing is more important than musical theater, not even murder.

Camilla Swanson and her brother Buddy work at Center Stage, a summer camp for musical theater ingenues run by their guardian Ron McCall. This year the camp's final show will be The Haunting of the Opera, the musical their mother was the lead actress in when she was brutally murdered. Camilla wishes to be like her mother but auditions are cutthroat, literally, and there is a kabuki masked madmen with a murderous disdain for Broadway belting.

Stage Fright is a film set in a summer camp that can only be described as campy. It is ridiculous and funny, self-awaredly mocking all the musical theater stereotypes. Everyone sings Sondheim-esque tunes, even the killer, but his musical styling is about as far from the brassy Broadway musical theater genre as it can get.

With any hybrid genre film, one is typically more dominant than the other. Stage Fright is both horror and musical though forty minutes pass by where it is straight musical movie before any real carnage occurs. Luckily writer/director Jerome Sable keeps Stage Fright light and amusing.

Stage Fright makes you endure Glee-like show-tunes in order to get to the bloody massacre of these theater camp adolescents. The deaths in the film are not nearly as campy as the first half of the film, unfortunately, and I wanted them to be a bit more far-fetched and ridiculous. Stage Fright fulfills the niche market for musical theater horror.

Audiences will leave with the knowledge that it's not wrong to sing and dance when someone just died, the show must go on and nothing is more important than The Theatre.

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I can appreciate what they're trying to do here, namely, something a little different. One of the reasons I give M. Night Shyamalan more grace than most film fans is because of his willingness to take risks doing something unique. However, like several of Shyamalan's own films, this movie ends up just being a little silly, lacking heart.

There haven't been many horror/musical mash-ups in the film world. So when I saw Stage Fright available to watch, I thought I'd give it a shot. Much to my surprise, this was a well shot film. It walks a fine line of self parody with the musical numbers, but the horror elements all feel straight laced. The final result is an odd mix that I feel that I wanted to like a lot more than I eventually did.

Broadway star Kylie Swanson opened the musical The Haunting of the Opera, an obvious spin on Phantom of the Opera. That same night she was murdered, the killer never found. Ten years later, her two kids help her old manager run an theatre camp for kids. The manager decides to bring back The Haunting of the Opera in an effort to be back on top. Once the rehearsals start, so do the killings.

That Broadway star is played by Minnie Driver and her scene is in the opening of this film, that's all. The manager is played by Meat Loaf, his voice isn't the same as if Rocky Horror Picture Show days. The rest of the cast is made up by no name Canadian stars. Yes, this is another Canadian film.

The deaths are somewhat creative. The killer seems to like ROCK and ROLL and absolutely HATE theatre musicals. There are a few scenes where they have fun with some red herrings, but not enough in my opinion. If you don't know who the killer is before the reveal, then you don't watch many films.

The laughs are few and far between, as are the deaths. It honestly felt like they gave up on the musicals numbers for 2/3's of the film. This attempt at this mash-up tells me one thing. It's not ready yet.

A snobby musical theater camp is terrorized by a blood-thirsty killer who hates musical theater.

The film has plenty of nice references early on to "Phantom of the Opera" and "Fantomas", with the "Phantom" theme throughout. Some have said the film draws from Argento's "Opera", but that is not necessarily the case. Beyond the generally theme (which is "Phantom"), there was very little "Opera".

The supporting cast is solid, with the amazing Meat Loaf and even a brief but powerful performance from Minnie Driver. Allie MacDonald as the lead is amazing, and do not be surprised if she gets big really fast after this.

The film widely received negative reviews, and the reasons are clear. The blend of humor, music and horror is not always flawless, and some of the songs are definitely better than others. Some probably enjoyed the heavy metal parts and disliked the rest (or vice versa). This is not on the same level as "Repo: The Genetic Opera", for example.

Whenever someone says they want to make a musical, you wonder if anyone asked them "really?"

There is a problem in Canadian cinema and that is the severe dearth of good screenwriters. When someone writes his own screenplay and directs it himself, he takes more responsibility, takes a huge risk and the film has a higher chance of failure.

In this film Jerome Sable takes an even higher risk, adding music and lyrics to his list of responsibilities.

If you look at a successful musical such as Chicago, you'll see how many credits it takes to make a good one. The film is directed by Rob Marshall, who did not touch the screenplay, music or lyrics. The writing credits are Bill Condon (screenplay), who did not touch the music or lyrics. The music is by John Kander and Fred Ebb.

In Stagefright, Jerome Sable thought he could do it all. Music, lyrics, screenplay and direct. All in his first feature. This is a common mistake in Canadian cinema (see Score: A Hockey Musical, written, directed, lyrics, etc. all by Michael McGowan). That one has a score of 4.6/10, this one currently has 5.2/10, most likely due to the horror element.

This story is not sure what it wants to be. We don't know if it's a musical, a comedy, a slasher horror. The combination could've been good, but the songs weren't that funny, they actually interrupt the comedy, as do the slasher parts. In comedies, we want to laugh nonstop. I didn't find the songs that funny and I actually preferred the non-musical jokes (Japanese art reference).

The production looked professional, camera, lighting, sound, etc. I think the director should keep at it, but refrain from trying to do everything himself. There are a lot of good scripts out there that could be made into great films with the right hands. Doing everything makes one look like a one-man band.

It's nothing new really. A horror movie with a lot of singing and dancing. Mix a bit of comedy in there and it might be your cup of tea. The actors give it their best. Sounds like most are either capable (singing-wise) or are being helped in a nice way. The choreography is nice I suppose, though no Bollywood fan will get too excited about any of that. Though not every Bollywood fan would like his song & dance mixed with blood of course.

The horror sort of works, though it is pretty predictable (and sort of "easy" to put it mildly). Jokes do not work as they should though and the characters feel very flat indeed. The fact that it doesn't take itself too seriously makes it more watchable than if it wasn't.

Let's start with country of origin.

Lately the "smart" thing to do with Canadian movies is label them as US and hope no one notices. This is an attempt to remove Canadian films from the stigma of "for the money" productions which invariably results in some of the worst quality product in the history of the medium.

(Here is an FYI -- the Canadian film industry was created by an eccentric "consultant" to a former Canadian parliamentary Secretary of State who worked for $1 a year and wrote the original white paper explaining how tax incentives could be used to kick start an industry. That was in the 1970s -- and the Canadian industry has been trying to hide from its crude origins ever since.) The movie is much much better than the reviews suggest. To start with, it takes brass balls (which BTW is a nautical term, look it up) to even attempt to combine a slasher film with a musical, and cast it (save for Driver and the irrepressible Meatloaf) with unknowns.

But the ultimate test of any film is, and always will be, does it entertain?, does it connect?, and here the production is consistently of high quality and yes indeed it is a fun watch.

This is also a "Lantos" pedigree film, which is meaningful only if you are student of Canadian cinema, a fact (as above) this film tries to hide.

Recommended.

In fact, if the film ever decides to come out of the closet, it is one of the most interesting Canadian efforts ever.

Kylie Swanson is murdered by a masked killer after performing the lead on opening night in a musical. Ten years later, her children Camilla and Buddy are working in the kitchen of Center Stage, a financially strapped camp for the performing arts, run by Roger McCall (Meat Loaf). When the camp holds the same musical, Camilla auditions for the lead despite Buddy's objection.

This is a dark comedy musical horror. If some of that doesn't fit well, it is to be expected. Minnie Driver only has a short cameo. The musical is nothing to write home about. The comedy is mostly lacking except for the band. As for the horror, there is a difficulty in that most of the campers are actual kids outside of the older leads. After the first murder, the kids need to run. The only way to do this right is to hide the bodies. There's a reason why most killers do their business before the little campers arrive. This is a try-hard musical theater group and there is a bit of comedic tension from that. I do appreciate somebody trying to do something slightly different. I don't think it works. Instead of a kids' camp, this could be a regional theater with a Waiting for Guffman situation.

This film is excellent - but it may not be for you if you don't enjoy both irreverent musical comedies -and- slasher films of both the serious and guilty pleasure variety.

So if you really enjoyed Pitch Perfect, Scream, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and have seen more than a few stage musicals, then this might just make your night.

The only reason this doesn't have a better rating (its currently at a 5, which to me is a crime) is because viewers come to it expecting a slasher, and hate the musical comedy, OR they come to it expecting a musical comedy, and don't like the gore. Or they come to it to see meatloaf - who here plays and sings very much against type, and feel cheated.

This is smart, amusing, and will tickle the right people in the right places.

I have never seen the original Stage Fright with Marlene Dietrich, but I doubt this come close to the original. I didn't like this 2014 version because of the disjointed plot, lack of singing ability and poor acting. True, many of the actors were kids, so it's a bit much for me to expect them to have stage skills, but really, a better job could have been done if they had used more talented kids like those you see in many tv shows and kids movies.

This movie is NOT suitable for young children due to its graphic violence, casting couch scenes, and complicated plot. Yes it's hard to grasp the plot, although after around 45 minutes I started to get an idea of who is who and where they all fit in. It's like one of those books you would have to read at least twice before you really figure out what was in the author's head. I watched about an hour before taking a break to write this critique.

Now I will fast forward to find out "who dunnit". Probably Agatha Christie style it's not one of the obvious suspects. My advice: Give this movie a miss.

Punny, goofy, corny, and highly entertaining twist on the teen summer camp slasher. The tonal changes are insane, but with their tongue so firmly tucked in their cheek, each genre works. The songs are great, the horror is brutal, and the comedy is...good enough.