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StageFright is a italien film of genre Thriller directed by Michele Soavi released in USA on 8 february 1987 with Barbara Cupisti
StageFright (1987)
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Add to a movie listStage Fright (original title Deliria) is a 1987 horror film directed by Michele Soavi. The film stars Barbara Cupisti, David Brandon and Giovanni Lombardo Radice. Written by George Eastman (writing as Lew Cooper), the story combines elements of the giallo and slasher film genres. The film follows a troupe of stage actors who are rehearsing for an small-townmusical production. After locking themselves in the theater to focus on rehearsing, they continue the rehearsing, not knowing that an psychopathic actor who sneaked out of an asylum is locked in the theater with them and starts a murderous spree.
Joe D'Amato served as the film's producer. It was Soavi's first feature film as director; he had previously worked as an assistant director for Joe D'Amato, Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava and had previously directed the music video "The Valley" for Argento's Phenomena as well as the documentary Dario Argento's World of Horror.
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The film takes place in a theater late at night as a troupe of actors are rehearsing a musical about a mass murderer known as the Night Owl. When the show's leading lady, Alicia (Cupisti), sprains her ankle, she and the wardrobe mistress, Betty (Schwerk), sneaks out of the rehearsal to go to a doctor, in which the closest medical facility is a mental hospital. The psychiatrist on duty is happy to help, but the wardrobe mistress notices a restrained patient on a bed lying in a room behind bars. The doctor tells them that it is Irving Wallace (Clain Parker), a former actor who went insane and murdered dozen of people. Unbeknownst to any of them, Wallace killed one of the attendants with a syringe and sneaked out of the asylum, hiding in the back of Betty's car.Actors
Barbara Cupisti
(Alicia)
Domenico Fiore
(Police Chief)
Piero Vida
(Ferrari)
Mary Sellers
(Laurel)
Mickey Knox
(Old Cop)
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