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The Theatre Bizarre
The film contains six stories, each inspired by legendary Grand Guignol theatre. All of them are presented within a connecting framework, Theatre Guignol: Enola Penny is intrigued by an abandoned theatre in her neighborhood. One night the theatre door mysteriously opens and she enters. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. The stories unfold, something much stranger is happening to Enola. Something irreversible and horrific.
22 September 1985, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
16 January 1985, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
25 June 1983, Landstuhl, West Germany
3 November 1946, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
20 March 1975, France
15 October 1947, East St. Louis, Illinois, USA
February 02, 2012
Absent anything scary or even shocking, the only question is why Enola sticks around for all six shorts. Or why the filmmakers think we would.
January 24, 2012
Several of the segments make up for their lack of polish with a clear relish for their genre.
August 22, 2012
An impressively good hit-to-miss ratio ... Entirely worth a horror fan's time, but is probably too erratic and violent a film for the casual enthusiast.
January 27, 2012
A macabre horror anthology that suffers from a couple weak entries weighing it down, but still compares relatively favorably to the qualitative mean established by Anchor Bay's 'Masters of Horror' series a few years back.
February 21, 2012
The Theatre Bizarre is a delicious horror buffet with some gore-geous treats and gruesome confections.
February 03, 2012
These elements may be shocking and even bizarre. But, like a lot of midnight-movie provocations, they soon turn predictable.
February 17, 2012
As with most anthology efforts, only a few of the segments truly shine, yet the production as a whole carries itself confidently and shares a few scattered pleasures.