The Theatre Bizarre

The Theatre Bizarre (2011)

Welcome to the Theatre of the Absurd.

Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep.

Date of release
2011-07-15
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (118)
Runtime
1h 54m
Genres
Horror
Director
Buddy Giovinazzo, Douglas Buck, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Tom Savini, Richard Stanley, Jeremy Kasten

Casting

Interesting facts

The Theatre Bizarre is a 2011 American horror anthology film. The six segments are directed by Douglas Buck, Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Tom Savini and Richard Stanley. The wraparound segments featuring Udo Kier were directed by Jeremy Kasten.

Production

The film is a co-production between United States based Severin Films and France based Metaluna Productions.

Each director was given the same budget, schedule and narrative directive. Other than that, they were given free rein to create their 10-20 minute segments.

Richard Stanley's segment is an adaptation of the short story "Mother of Toads" by Clark Ashton Smith.

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