I remember hearing about this some time ago and thinking that the idea of mixing musical theatre and slasher could be quite interesting, even though it doesn't sound that intriguing, but I was willing to give it a shot and the results were actually pretty good, but overall pretty much a mixed bag.
The opening of this starts off quite promising where you think you've seen a murder, but then pulls away and turns out to be a performance, which worked , and then later the real murder happens which was full of tension and thrills and I was genuinely excited to see what was to come next. But while most of this movie was interesting and the leading characters were decent, it just doesn't quite reach its full potential, as for one thing after the first murder, no more happen for quite a while and the rest of time is more like a teen filled drama with a bunch of unmemorable musical numbers thrown in to pad out the running time. But when the murders do happen, that's when things really get going and highly enjoyable. But another thing that fails to work is the mystery element of the killer which was sadly disappointing and way too predictable, and to be honest when the killer started singing, I just found that way too stupid.
The performances though do make this work the main girl Allie MacDonald was pretty good and convincing in her performance. Douglas Smith also gives a standout as her brother and very likable and even Meat Loaf was fun and wonderfully over the top as the owner of the camp. Then Minnie Driver was wonderfully fine in her brief but memorable role at the beginning of the movie, which really did set the tone for the rest of the movie.
All in all Stage Fright is a decent effort that tries something different with mixing two genres, but doesn't quite succeed , but with good performances and good kills it's still a entertaining watch.
The opening of this starts off quite promising where you think you've seen a murder, but then pulls away and turns out to be a performance, which worked , and then later the real murder happens which was full of tension and thrills and I was genuinely excited to see what was to come next. But while most of this movie was interesting and the leading characters were decent, it just doesn't quite reach its full potential, as for one thing after the first murder, no more happen for quite a while and the rest of time is more like a teen filled drama with a bunch of unmemorable musical numbers thrown in to pad out the running time. But when the murders do happen, that's when things really get going and highly enjoyable. But another thing that fails to work is the mystery element of the killer which was sadly disappointing and way too predictable, and to be honest when the killer started singing, I just found that way too stupid.
The performances though do make this work the main girl Allie MacDonald was pretty good and convincing in her performance. Douglas Smith also gives a standout as her brother and very likable and even Meat Loaf was fun and wonderfully over the top as the owner of the camp. Then Minnie Driver was wonderfully fine in her brief but memorable role at the beginning of the movie, which really did set the tone for the rest of the movie.
All in all Stage Fright is a decent effort that tries something different with mixing two genres, but doesn't quite succeed , but with good performances and good kills it's still a entertaining watch.