- Year
- 1987
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Director
- Michele Soavi
- Updated
- 9 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (33/100)
- Also known as
- Bloody Bird · Stage Fright · Deliria: Aquarius · StageFright: Aquarius · Sound Stage Massacre
StageFright
A killer in a giant owl mask, a locked theatre, and Soavi announcing himself.
Michele Soavi came off Argento's crew and made his debut with a theatre troupe rehearsing a musical about a mass murderer, locked into the building overnight with a real one who has pulled on the show's giant owl-head costume. The one-set siege and the closing tableau of a feather-strewn stage under a single work light are staged with far more control than the late-Eighties slasher had any right to. Often called the last great Italian slasher, and you can see the case.
Argento's gloss without the plot holes, plus an owl.
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