Being working in the kitchen of arts camp performing for the rich, day-dreaming teenager Camilla Swanson always brings up her admire to be a Broadway diva. She sneaks into audition for summer showcase and plays a lead role but just as rehearsals begin, blood starts to spill, the theater is in fear of haunting and terrorism by a a blood-thirsty musical-hating killer.
Written and directed by Jerome Sable, Stage Fright is a clever, gory and wickedly fun time that truly celebrates everything we love about horror musicals with an unabashed enthusiasm that you can't help but fall in love with.
Writer-director Jerome Sable, who co-wrote the songs with Eli Batalion, has a sharp ear for musical pastiche, from Andrew Lloyd Weber to heavy metal. But he comes up flat on the horror-musical spoof.
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.
Stage Fright mashes the gory whodunnit set-pieces of every slasher you've ever seen with the let's-put-on-a-show glee of, well, Glee, while throwing in easter-egg allusions to, inter alia, Psycho and Carrie.
