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The Theatre Bizarre (2011)

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Down a seedy city street, a young woman is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees the front door slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the vast, eerie auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an odd marionette-like man who will introduce her to six tales of the truly bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees crosses paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the

Unrated, 1 hr. 54 min.

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Zach Chassler, Richard Stanley

Apr 24, 2012

W2 Media

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These elements may be shocking and even bizarre. But, like a lot of midnight-movie provocations, they soon turn predictable.

February 3, 2012 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
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The Theatre Bizarre is a delicious horror buffet with some gore-geous treats and gruesome confections.

February 21, 2012 Full Review Source: KPBS.org | Comment
KPBS.org

As with most anthology efforts, only a few of the segments truly shine, yet the production as a whole carries itself confidently and shares a few scattered pleasures.

February 17, 2012 Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | Comment
BrianOrndorf.com

Absent anything scary or even shocking, the only question is why Enola sticks around for all six shorts. Or why the filmmakers think we would.

February 2, 2012 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | Comment
St. Paul Pioneer Press

A macabre horror anthology that suffers from a couple weak entries weighing it down, but still compares relatively favorably to the qualitative mean established by Anchor Bay's 'Masters of Horror' series a few years back.

January 27, 2012 Full Review Source: Shockya.com | Comment

Several of the segments make up for their lack of polish with a clear relish for their genre.

January 24, 2012 Full Review Source: Screen International | Comment
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Some of the shorts are very fun; one of them is even brilliant (but not necessarily the type of film I expected to see in this compilation). A fun and disgusting night at the movies.

February 10, 2012

What the hell happened to American horror? Remember when mainstream horror films actually offered either originality or creativity in the way victims died? Now we're practically spoon fed the same formula over and over and it doesn't help that more than half of the horror films getting the green light or being released

February 2, 2012
Chris S.
Chris Sawin

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