The Theatre Bizarre
(2011)
Regisseur:
Douglas Buck, Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Jeremy KastenSchauspieler:
Suzan Anbeh, Elissa Dowling, Rachelle Glait, Jeff Dylan Graham, Imogen Haworth, André Hennicke, Kaniehtiio Horn, Udo Kier, Catriona MacColl, Victoria Maurette, Virginia Newcomb, Erica Rhodes, Debbie Rochon, Tom Savini, Shane Woodward, Guilford Adams"The Mother of Toads": Ein amerikanisches Pärchen verirrt sich in den Pyrenäen und trifft eine wahre Legende. "I Love You": Ein Pärchen trennt sich in einer Berliner Wohnung auf denkbar unschöne Weise. "Wet Dreams": Den schlechten Ehemann plagen Albträume. Der Psychiater weiß schlechten Rat. "The Accident": Ein kleines Mädchen wird erstmals mit dem Tod konfrontiert. "Vision Stains": Ein weiblicher Serienkiller hat ein wahrhaft ungewöhnliches Motiv. "Sweets": Das große Fressen ist auch nur eine Metapher.
Kurzweilige, stilvolle Horroranthologie: Sieben zum Teil recht namhafte Regisseure mit unterschiedlichstem Genre-Hintergrund servieren in sieben Kurzgeschichten (eine hübsche Rahmenhandlung mit Udo Kier zählt auch dazu) ein buntes Spektrum von old-fashioned Splatter über düsteren Realismus bis zu entfesselter Satire, hier nachdenklich, da auf Grobreiz aus, mal lustvoll experimentell, mal ganz der Tradition verhaftet. Erprobt auf den Fantasy Filmfest Nights.
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.
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.
