Stage Fright starts out as a funny musical mashup — “Glee” meets“Friday the 13th” — but winds up indulging slasher-flick clichés instead of spoofing them.
Despite Meat Loaf’s hammily entertaining turn as the desperate owner of a musical theater summer camp, the film fails to live up to its obvious inspirations.
As horror musicals go, Stage Fright is never more than an out-of-town tryout.
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Washington PostMark Jenkins
Washington PostMark Jenkins
Whether it’s being sexy, jokey or homicidal, Stage Fright doesn’t deliver the goods with sufficient spirit. It lacks the sparkle to be a truly killer show.
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Village VoiceSimon Abrams
Village VoiceSimon Abrams
Stage Fright's lopsided tone wouldn't be so confounding if the horror elements worked or if writer-director Jerome Sable's music, co-composed with Eli Batalion, weren't so forgettable.
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Slant MagazineClayton Dillard
Slant MagazineClayton Dillard
Jerome Sable's debut feature couldn't be further from De Palma's delirious cinematic essays on vision and genre.