Synopsis

Directed by: Douglas Buck, Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Tom Savini, Richard Stanley. A modern horror anthology inspired by the over-the-top shocks of Paris' early 20th century 'Theatre du Grand Guignol'.

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 bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees crosses 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 fluid of her victims’ eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep. But as the stories unfold, something strange is happening to the woman. Something irreversible and horrific. Something that awaits its next audience in The Theatre Bizarre."

Official Review

I was a late bloomer when it came to horror as my parents shielded me from the late night news and anything R-rated. I caught my first glimpses of iconic horror films through the cracks of my fingers. Breaking free from a filtered childhood, what ignited my love for the genre was HBO’s “Tales From the Crypt,” a genre series of shorts that played on a weekly basis much like an anthology. To say short form horror gave me the bloody bug is an understatement. I have a soft spot for anthologies, and more importantly it’s the root of my own evil. Severin Films, not known for their own productions, embarked on a very daring journey that resulted in a carnival of terror known simply as Theatre Bizarre — a film featuring several director’s unforgettable visions of grotesque terror. …Read More