The Theatre Bizarre

Jul 15, 2011

1h 54m

★ 5.3

Welcome to the Theatre of the Absurd.

Overview

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.

Genres

Horror

Production Companies

Quota Productions

Severin Films

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Cast

Peg Poett

Udo Kier

Enola Penny

Virginia Newcomb

Squalid Woman

Amanda Marquardt

Gypsy

Amelia M. Gotham

Mere Antoinette

Catriona MacColl

Martin

Shane Woodward

Karina

Victoria Maurette

Axel

André Hennicke

Suzan Anbeh

George

Harvey Friedman

Carla

Debbie Rochon

Dr. Maurey

Tom Savini

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The Theatre Bizarre

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