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The Theatre Bizarre2011

Name: The Theatre Bizarre
Genre: Witchcraft & Occult, Psychological, Body Horror, Splatter & Gore
Released: 2011-07-15
Rating: 5.2

“Welcome to the Theatre of the Absurd.”

Directed by Buddy Giovinazzo, Douglas Buck

5.2

Crypt Score

Blended from 3 sources

IMDb 5.2Rotten Tomatoes 44%TMDB 5.3

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Year

2011

Runtime

114 min

Box Office

🏆 1 nomination

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

A young woman slips into a derelict theatre one night and finds herself held captive by a nightmarish stage show presided over by an unsettling puppet-like host. Six independent tales unspool before her, each diving into a different flavor of depravity — from witchcraft in the French countryside to deeply personal horrors born of jealousy, addiction, and obsession. Featuring an international roster of horror directors, the film wears its grindhouse influences proudly while pushing into genuinely transgressive territory. It is anthology horror at its most uncompromising.

Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Body Horror, Sexual Content, Disturbing Imagery, Violence Against Eyes