The Theatre Bizarre

The Theatre Bizarre

2011 · 114 min · EN · R · 5.4 (93 votes)
Dir. Tom Savini, David Gregory, Douglas Buck, Richard Stanley, Buddy Giovinazzo, Karim Hussain, Jeremy Kasten · Starring Udo Kier, Virginia Newcomb, Amanda Marquardt, Amelia M. Gotham, Catriona MacColl, Shane Woodward · Music Simon Boswell
Horror

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.

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A fever dream of unsettling vignettes. This anthology dives deep into the grotesque and surreal, offering a disturbing yet strangely campy journey into obsessions and desires. It's a bizarre trip best taken alone in the dark.

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