After an auspicious early career assisting, acting for, and/or otherwise working with the likes of Lucio Fulci, Joe D’Amato, Dario Argendo, and Terry Gilliam, Michele Soavi made his own cinematic mark, directing cult favorites like 1989’s The Church, 1991’s The Sect, and perhaps his best-known work, 1994’s Dellamorte Dellamore (aka Cemetery Man). His first feature, 1987’s Stage Fright, is maybe a hair more “horror” than “giallo,” but its tale of actors trapped in a theater with an escaped killer—a former actor himself, who dons an eerie owl mask to get back into character—is too entertaining not to include here. Watch on Shudder.
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