Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Mina Whenever someone says they want to make a musical, you wonder if anyone asked them "really?"There is a problem in Canadian cinema and that is the severe dearth of good screenwriters. When someone writes his own screenplay and directs it himself, he takes more responsibility, takes a huge risk and the film has a higher chance of failure.In this film Jerome Sable takes an even higher risk, adding music and lyrics to his list of responsibilities.If you look at a successful musical such as Chicago, you'll see how many credits it takes to make a good one. The film is directed by Rob Marshall, who did not touch the screenplay, music or lyrics. The writing credits are Bill Condon (screenplay), who did not touch the music or lyrics. The music is by John Kander and Fred Ebb.In Stagefright, Jerome Sable thought he could do it all. Music, lyrics, screenplay and direct. All in his first feature. This is a common mistake in Canadian cinema (see Score: A Hockey Musical, written, directed, lyrics, etc. all by Michael McGowan). That one has a score of 4.6/10, this one currently has 5.2/10, most likely due to the horror element.This story is not sure what it wants to be. We don't know if it's a musical, a comedy, a slasher horror. The combination could've been good, but the songs weren't that funny, they actually interrupt the comedy, as do the slasher parts. In comedies, we want to laugh nonstop. I didn't find the songs that funny and I actually preferred the non-musical jokes (Japanese art reference).The production looked professional, camera, lighting, sound, etc. I think the director should keep at it, but refrain from trying to do everything himself. There are a lot of good scripts out there that could be made into great films with the right hands. Doing everything makes one look like a one-man band.

acidburn-10 I remember hearing about this some time ago and thinking that the idea of mixing musical theatre and slasher could be quite interesting, even though it doesn't sound that intriguing, but I was willing to give it a shot and the results were actually pretty good, but overall pretty much a mixed bag.The opening of this starts off quite promising where you think you've seen a murder, but then pulls away and turns out to be a performance, which worked , and then later the real murder happens which was full of tension and thrills and I was genuinely excited to see what was to come next. But while most of this movie was interesting and the leading characters were decent, it just doesn't quite reach its full potential, as for one thing after the first murder, no more happen for quite a while and the rest of time is more like a teen filled drama with a bunch of unmemorable musical numbers thrown in to pad out the running time. But when the murders do happen, that's when things really get going and highly enjoyable. But another thing that fails to work is the mystery element of the killer which was sadly disappointing and way too predictable, and to be honest when the killer started singing, I just found that way too stupid.The performances though do make this work the main girl Allie MacDonald was pretty good and convincing in her performance. Douglas Smith also gives a standout as her brother and very likable and even Meat Loaf was fun and wonderfully over the top as the owner of the camp. Then Minnie Driver was wonderfully fine in her brief but memorable role at the beginning of the movie, which really did set the tone for the rest of the movie.All in all Stage Fright is a decent effort that tries something different with mixing two genres, but doesn't quite succeed , but with good performances and good kills it's still a entertaining watch.

fernie121793 I actually love this movie ! It's silly, funny and bloody. This movie is just a good old campy horror flick it reminded me of Sleepaway Camp minus that weird ending plus a musical. The musical numbers were funny. Hopefully this movie will inspire other horror musical movies in the future. Stage Fright is in the vein of "Dont Go In the Woods" and "Rocky Horror Picture Show" but this movie stands on its own. Allie plays Camilla a girl who lost her mother a famous Broadway actress, played by Minnie Driver, and longs to be just like her by wanting to take the lead in The Haunting of The Opera but she deals with a sleazy director of the show who wants her naked, Her brother who wants to leave for good, a boy who really likes her that borders on obsession, a mean girl who is hungry and thirsty for the lead role and the producer Rodger, played by Meat Loaf, who is on the edge of losing his camp due to financial problems is still convinced that the show will draw a big time Broadway agent to have him gain some personal interests that will satisfy him. The movie ends in a typical standard horror scare but this movie is worth watching again and again.

TheBlueHairedLawyer Imagine if you took Disney's High School Musical series, threw in some stoned-looking teenagers, gay bashing comments, cursing and bad singing, along with a cliché story about an unoriginal slasher movie killer. Well, if that's your thing, then here you go! The acting was terrible, especially from the girl (main protagonist). She is a ditz, a bimbo and she dresses like a twelve-year-old, not to mention she looks like she's on something. For some unknown reason the singer Meat Loaf was in the cast, no idea why he's there. Perhaps the script writers were very drunk, or had gotten into the Windex in the custodian's closet of the film studio, I don't know. I think it's supposed to be a black comedy movie but I just didn't find the humor in it.The singing (yes it's a slasher musical), was weird and awful. Take several cats and chuck them in a dishwasher and you'll get a similar melody. The plot is weird and the movie seems aimed at kids ages 12 to 18 rather than the usual 18+ audiences of horror. Every character was shallow, there's even a girl who offers sex to a nerdy guy so he'll rig the voting for the lead actress in the theater camp's play.All in all this was pretty bad, no nicer way of putting it. I don't even want to know what the producers were thinking coming up with something like this.