10 Forgotten 80s Slashers That Still Have Some Stabs Left In Them

8. Stage Fright aka Deliria (1987)

There€™s a lot more to Italian cinema than Pier Pasolini and Luchino Visconti. With the 20th century came Italian Giallo films, films based on crimes that were gory, fantastical and deeply macabre. From this came a surge of Italian horror-thrillers, most notably Dario Argento€™s Suspiria (1977). But not all Italian horror films can be Suspiria, some can be Stage Fright a slasher set against the backdrop of a rehearsing stage musical based on serial killer. And since we€™re now all well versed in slasher logic, this inevitably means a criminally insane patient/ former actor (natch) escapes the very same night and lays waste to the cast. What Stage Fright lacks in logic, it makes up for with style. And a dancing man in an owl costume.
 
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Alexandra has written about horror films for the Toronto Star, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Rue Morgue and her own blog Scare Tactic. She lives, works and survives in Canada.