When it comes to Italian horror films "Stage Fright" aka "Deliria" may not be as known as the Dario Argento classics, but it surely deserves to be up there. This is just a flat out COOL movie. This came out around the end of the 80's slasher craze and it managed to avoid some of the typical slasher film cliches while keeping up the death and gore to a lofty level. When it comes to generic slasher films you expect the typical setting of the isolated teenagers stuck in the woods or a quiet neighborhood. Here we still get the isolation, but in a much different and fresh setting of a theater set. This setting allows for a lot of interesting and unique deaths and stylish plot developments not usually associated with the slasher genre. The killer here is another escaped insane asylum victim, but he has one of the coolest masks (as seen below) and killer instinct in the 80's slasher world. While this may not be the typical slasher to satisfy your exploitive needs, it is certainly a more stylish one that can be enjoyed outside the gore, along with it.
*3 Lance Approvals*
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