Stage Fright (2014) poster
2014 · horror · slasher · music

Stage Fright

Directed by Jerome Sable1h 29m2014
ElsewhereIMDb5.25kRT37%Metacritic39
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • inventive
  • cold
Movie DNA

Neutral, breathless, measured horror / slasher, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A high-end musical theater camp is terrorized by a bloodthirsty killer who hates musical theater.

Our read · Stage Fright (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive horror · slasher · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a campy musical slasher at a theater camp with over-the-top kills.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 3attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgoregraphic violencejump scares

Skip it tonightSkip if bloody horror mixed with show tunes sounds ridiculous to you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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