Review – The Theatre Bizarre

Here’s a moviemaking lesson: if you’re assembling six short horror movies and a bracket into an anthology piece, the segments need to follow a particular order. You should lead off with your second best piece, mix in the weaker segments, then end with the best you have to offer. This assembly leads off with its best effort – a Lovecraft pastiche with some nasty sexual overtones – and goes steadily downhill from there. Before the credits roll, we’ve been treated to some serious castration anxiety from Tom Savini, the most awful grief counseling movie ever made (complete with graphic animal death) and three other less memorable bits. Though I’d like to support the producers of independent short horror movies, I’d also like for them to be better than this. See if desperate