10 Films That Could Easily Be Converted into Horrors

6. The Birdcage

For Gene Hackman€™s conservative senator, there€™s nothing worse than having to spend the night having dinner with his soon to be brothers-in-law, the flamboyantly gay Armand and Albert. And that€™s just in the original version. In the horror version, things truly start to get nightmarish. Those aren't eggs in the sweet and sour soup €“ they€™re eyeballs! Armand€™s discotheque, the Birdcage, is actually a corner of hell where sinners burn up on the dance floor. I mean literally, they are set alight as demons whoop it up and dance around in their thongs and go-go boots. Senator Keeley has to watch in revulsion as Agador Spartacus eats the entrails of his wife as Armand sings show tunes €“ €˜I could have danced and daaaaaanced€ All niiiiiiiggght!€™ The terror only ends when Albert, looking darling in drag, beats him into a bloody pulp with a giant bowl patterned with €˜little Greek boys playing leapfrog€™. Phewf, good thing Senator Keeley wakes up and it was all a dream! NOT, that sort of ending is for pussies. Senator Keeley is in fact trapped in eternal torment, a Moebius strip where he has to re-live that awful dinner party again€ And again€ And again€
 
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