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The Theatre Bizarre

The Theatre Bizarre (2012)

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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

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Zach Chassler, Richard Stanley

Apr 24, 2012

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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
Mark Jenkins
Washington Post
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An impressively good hit-to-miss ratio ... Entirely worth a horror fan's time, but is probably too erratic and violent a film for the casual enthusiast.

August 22, 2012 Full Review Source: CraveOnline
William Bibbiani
CraveOnline

The Theatre Bizarre is a delicious horror buffet with some gore-geous treats and gruesome confections.

February 21, 2012 Full Review Source: KPBS.org
Beth Accomando
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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
Brian Orndorf
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
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
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
Brent Simon
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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
John Hazelton
Screen International
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Grotesque, dark, creepy and (living up to its title) very bizarre indeed. Some stories felt vapid, yes, while some were interesting and bizarre enough to satisfy every horror fan as myself. The gores were over-the-top and very painful to watch that it felt uncomfortably good. The Theater Bizarre has made me stand to my seat and scream for an encore.
May 2, 2012
August Seria
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Surprisingly solid anthology. While the frame for presenting these stories is fairly mediocre, the actual short films range between "better than expected" and "whoa, holy cow that was much better than i expected." Even the low end of the spectrum managed to engage me as a viewer, even when the storyline was ridiculous, absurd, and downright gruesome. The story hooked me and I couldn't wait to see how they ended it. And that's pretty good. But the two standout stories (The Accident, Vision Stains) are what take this up a few grand notches. The Accident is a poetic exploration of a defining moment in a young girl's life. A number of the scenes in that are shot in a way that made it feel like it was taken out of a Lars Von Trier film. Vision Stains has one of the most beautifully ambitious sci-fi plot I've seen in a long time. It should be made into a full length, though it stands fairly well as-is.
January 25, 2013
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