Image Entertainment has send us information for their upcoming release of the horror anthology "The Theater Bizarre". The film was directed by seven veterans of the horror genre including Richard Stanley (Hardware), Buddy Giovinazzo (No Way Home), Tom Savini (Night of the Living Dead (1990)), Douglas Buck (Sisters), Karim Hussain (Ascension), David Gregory (Plague Town) and Jeremy Kasten (The Wizard of Gore (2007)) "The Theater Bizarre" is available right now through various VOD providers and will be making its DVD debut of April 24th.

Press Release:

Image Entertainment presents a horror anthology like no other with its release of The Theatre Bizarre. The film was directed by seven veterans of the horror genre including Richard Stanley (Hardware), Buddy Giovinazzo (No Way Home), Tom Savini (Night of the Living Dead (1990)), Douglas Buck (Sisters), Karim Hussain (Ascension), David Gregory (Plague Town) and Jeremy Kasten (The Wizard of Gore (2007)). This boundary-pushing film featuring stories of ancient evil, love, obsession, addiction, gluttony, sexual nightmares, pain, brutality and of course, death, is now available On Demand with cable and satellite providers, and will be available on DVD April 24, 2012.

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.

The Theatre Bizarre enjoyed a successful 2011 festival run, screening at Fantasia International Film Festival, Frightfest, Sitges Festival De Cine Fantastic and Toronto After Dark. The film began its theatrical release in the U.S. on January 27, 2012 in seven markets including NY & LA, expanding to additional cities across the country.

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