Hoot Hoot, Bitch.
After discussing the positive queer representation in John Carpenter’s Someone’s Watching Me! and the queer safe space of Midian at the center of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, we’re heading over to Italy to wax poetic over Michele Soavi‘s 1987 giallo-cum-slasher Stage Fright!
In the film, a narcissistic director (David Brandon) locks a group of stage actors in a theater for a rehearsal of their upcoming musical production, unaware that an escaped psychopath has sneaked into the theater with them.
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Episode 191: Stage Fright (1987)
Get ready to sell your ass in the men’s room because we’re getting locked in a theatre with a theatre troupe in Michele Soavi’s giallo-cum-slasher Stage Fright (1987)! Joining us for the conversation is Arrow Video contributor and the Fragments of Fear Podacast co-host Rachael Nisbet!
After trying to figure out why Stage Fright is included in lists of gialli, we go all in on Soavi’s directorial debut and discuss how his tutelage from Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava fueled his creative vision for this film.
Plus, a subversive opening scene, another dull final girl, a delightfully sassy gay character, horny orderlies, one enormous skeleton key, face-level glory holes and…toilet troubles? Hoot hoot, bitch.
Cross out Stage Fright!
Coming up on Wednesday: Take some dramamine because we’re heading to the open seas to check in with Mr. Winslow, Mr. Wake and a pesky seagull in Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse (2019).
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