Fantasia 2011: "The Theater Bizarre" Stills and Screening Information

Severin Film recently released stills for their upcoming anthology horror film "The Theater Bizzare", which is making it's world premiere on July 16th. In one of the most interesting films of this year's Fantasia Festival, seven cult film directors join forces to create a series of short films that has no rules or no boundaries. The screenings will be hosted by all seven Directors, actors Udo Kier & Lynn Lowry + other members of the cast and crew.

Plot Synopsis:

The mandate was simple. Take six of the genre film universe’s most fascinating independent auteur figures. Give each of them an identical production budget. Turn them loose to craft a short film with no further rules or boundaries. The result is THE THEATRE BIZARRE, a shocking Grand Guignol anthology feature shot in four countries that encompasses new work from Richard Stanley (HARDWARE, DUST DEVIL), Karim Hussain (SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY, LA BELLE BETE), Buddy Giovinazzo ( COMBAT SHOCK, LIFE IS HOT IN CRACKTOWN), Tom Savini (special make-up effects genius, director of the 1990 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD), Douglas Buck (CUTTING MOMENTS, SISTERS remake) and David Gregory (PLAGUE TOWN, founder of the Severin Films label), with a wraparound segment (featuring none other than Udo Kier!) from Jeremy Kasten (THE WIZARD OF GORE remake).

The individual plots, tones and styles are as dissimilar from one another as could be possible. Stanley’s THE MOTHER OF TOADS is an atmospheric and perverse Lovecraftian chiller shot in France starring Lucio Fulci vet Catriona MacColl. Buck’s THE ACCIDENT is a peacefully disquieting meditation on death that evokes Malick over mayhem. Shot in Berlin, Giovinazzo’s ominously titled I LOVE YOU details the psychosexual agony of a bad romantic pairing taking a turn for the worst, starring ANTIBODIES’ André Hennicke. Savini’s WET DREAMS showcases Debbie Rochon as a housewife getting wise to her cheating husband’s ways and features grisly FX by Toetag Pictures (AUGUST UNDERGROUND). Hussain’s gruesome Montreal-lensed VISION STAINS is a surrealistic nightmare starring THE WILD HUNT’s Kaniehtiio Horn in a tour-de-force performance as a special kind of writer with a work methodology that will shock your senses – along with hers. Gregory’s stylish SWEETS is a theatrically comic, Burtonesque gorefest of bad love, worse eating habits and very distasteful social practices.

Upcoming Screenings:
July 16th, 2011 / 9:20 pm / Hall Theater / Montreal, Canada
July 17th, 2011 / 3:00 pm / J.A. De Seve Theater / Montreal Canada