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Overview

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6.8/10   1,342 votes
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Director:
Writers:
George Eastman (writer)
Sheila Goldberg (dialogue)
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Release Date:
8 February 1987 (Australia) more
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Tagline:
The theatre of death
Plot:
A troupe of struggling stage actors is rehearsing for a small-town production of a play. Everything... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
User Reviews:
A stylish, bloody slasher from Michele Soavi. more (65 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
David Brandon ... Peter
Barbara Cupisti ... Alicia
Domenico Fiore ... Police Chief (as Dom Fiore)
Robert Gligorov ... Danny
Mickey Knox ... Old Cop
Giovanni Lombardo Radice ... Brett (as John Morghen)
Clain Parker ... Irving Wallace
Loredana Parrella ... Corinne (as Lori Parrel)
Martin Philips ... Mark
James Sampson ... Willy (as James E.R. Sampson)
Ulrike Schwerk ... Betty
Mary Sellers ... Laurel
Jo Ann Smith ... Sybil
Piero Vida ... Ferrari
Richard Barkeley ... Dr. Porter
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Bloody Bird
Sound Stage Massacre
Stage Fright
StageFright: Aquarius (International: English title)
Aquarius (Spain) [es]
Aquarius - Theater des Todes (West Germany) [de]
Bloody Bird (France) [fr]
Mielisairaalan massamurhaaja (Finland) [fi]
Nyhterinos dolofonos (Greece) [el]
O Pássaro Sangrento (Brazil) [pt]
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Runtime:
90 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Co-writer Sheila Goldberg plays the nurse that tries to turn Betty and Alicia away at the psych ward. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Peter's "severed" head blinks several times during the final sequences. more
Quotes:
Brett: [grabs Corrine jokingly by the throat] Don't worry dear, it's only Mother, what's our bright-eyed Argenue reading now?
Corinne: Stanizslakski.
Brett: Oh, saints preservece.
Corinne: It's what an actor prepares, it's fantastic.
Brett: Hmm, let me know when you get up to the part about making enough money to keep body and soul together
[laurel screams in background]
Brett: that's the information i can use. Oh, look at laurel, she's a perfect example of the method, really feels her part. Keep it up sweetie.
[laurel sticks her middle finger up at him]
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Soundtrack:
Mystery Rouge more

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2 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
A stylish, bloody slasher from Michele Soavi., 21 June 2006
8/10
Author: BA_Harrison from Hampshire, England

In Michele Soavi's classy 80s slasher Stagefright, a troupe of struggling actors are trapped overnight in a theatre; one by one they are bumped off by an escaped mental patient sporting an owl mask and wielding a nifty selection of sharp implements and power tools.

Soavi gives us a brilliantly tense movie that makes maximum use of its locale, using lighting, theatre sets and shadowy areas to great effect. There are plenty of creepy moments, some genuine scares and loads of nice bloody FX for the gore-hounds. Fans of Italian horror might notice some similarities in style between this movie and some of Dario Argento's giallo films; this should come as no surprise, since Soavi worked as an assistant to Argento, and obviously learnt a thing or two about shooting a great murder scene. He even uses synth maestro Simon Boswell, who worked on Argento's Phenomena, to create the atmospheric score.

There are one or two moments which stop this film from being perfect (in particular, an unnecessary prologue with a 'shock' ending), but Stagefight still manages to impress with its splattery death scenes and stylish direction.

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