“STAGE FRIGHT” My rating: C (Opens May 9 at the Screenland Armour)
92 minutes | MPAA rating: R
“Stage Fright” tries to meld two radically different genres — the slasher film and the summer camp musical.
As you’d expect, the results are pretty schizoid.
Writer/director Jerome Sable’s horror-comedy begins with the premiere performance of a Broadway musical called “The Haunting of the Opera” (apologies to Andrew Lloyd Webber). Leading lady Kylie Swanson (Minnie Driver) slays the opening-night crowd, only to be herself slain backstage by a masked, knife-wielding psycho. Her young son and daughter, Buddy and Camilla, barely escape with their lives.
Now, a decade later, the teenaged Buddy (Douglas Smith) and Camilla (Allie MacDonald) work in the kitchen of the summer musical youth camp run by their mother’s old producer and one-time lover, Roger McCall (“Rocky Horror” alum Meat Loaf).
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