Stage Fright (1987 film)
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| Directed by | Michele Soavi |
| Produced by |
Aristide Massacessi Donatella Donati |
| Written by |
George Eastman (as Lew Cooper) Sheila Goldberg |
| Starring |
David Brandon Barbara Cupisti |
| Music by |
Simon Boswell Guido Anelli Stefano Mainetti |
| Cinematography | Renato Tafuri |
| Edited by | Kathleen Stratton |
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DMV Distribuzione
Filmirage |
| Distributed by | Artists Entertainment Group |
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Running time
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86 minutes |
| Country | Italy United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,000,000 (estimated) |
Stage Fright (original title Deliria, also known as StageFright, StageFright: Aquarius, Aquarius, and Bloody Bird) is a 1987 Italian-American horror film directed by Michele Soavi. The film stars Barbara Cupisti, David Brandon and Giovanni Lombardo Radice. Written by George Eastman (writing as Lew Cooper), the story combines elements of the giallo and slasher film genres. The movie follows a group of stage actors and crew rehearsing for a small town musical production. While they lock themselves in to do rehearsing, they are unaware that a psychopathic actor has escaped nearby and started a killing spree while locked inside the theater with them.
Joe D'Amato served as the film's producer. It was Soavi's first feature film as director; he had previously worked as an assistant director for Joe D'Amato, Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava and had previously directed the music video "The Valley" for Argento's Phenomena as well as the documentary Dario Argento's World of Horror. General reception towards the film has been positive, and over the years has achieved a cult following.
Late at night inside a theater, a troupe of actors and crew consisting of the director Peter, Alicia, Mark, Sybil, Betty, Corrine, Laurel, Danny, Brett, and Ferrari are rehearsing a musical about a fictional mass murderer known as the Night Owl. When Alicia sprains her ankle, she and Betty sneak out of rehearsal for medical assistance, the closest being a mental hospital. When speaking to the psychiatrist, Betty notices an imprisoned patient named Irving Wallace, a former actor gone insane who committed a killing spree. Unbeknownst to any of them, Wallace killed one of the attendants with a syringe and snuck out of the asylum to hide inside Betty's car.
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