#[ stagefright ]

[vampirecorleone]

Cats + Horror: Eye of the Cat (1969) Inferno (1980) The Monster Club (1981) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) The Sentinel (1977) StageFright (1987) Hausu (1977) Pet Sematary (1989) Brainscan (1994) Alien (1979) The Uncanny (1977) Uninvited (1988) The Collector (2009) Black Christmas (1974) Hemlock Grove (2013) Torture Garden (1967)

[sm-baby]

FOR THE LOVE GOD PLEASE SHOW US FLIRTY NON-SENTIENT GANGLE

GRANT ME MY WISH, MY LIFE IS YOURS!!

CARNIVAL AU - Flirty Non-sentient... GANGLE?

kofi🎀

And that's how the game got shutdown for like a month because Able was a snitch

[classichorrorblog]

StageFright (1987)

[nobody-nexus]

My Contribution to the Holidays

Sillystrings Christmas Card! Complete with their signatures!

Also, for people who can tell, Gangle's outfit is one big reference to @vixenvtuber's VTuber Model Especially the horns and colors chosen cause why not :>?

Also no joke, for Ragatha's signature, I had to do the "Rag" part of the name BACKWARDS. I have a very hard time with reading cursive, much less writing in it. But I managed

I'll make something for my birthday, since I kinda take more priority in that then Christmas admittedly, but I still wanted to give people something for the holidays

Whatever you celebrate, hope nothing goes wrong during it! And have fun

Also, no, I'm not sorry for the Gummigoo sleigh

[stitchthelilo]

a gift to the scaredylovers nation

[lonelyzarquon]

That's your cue. What are you waiting for? Go on, kill her! Kill her!

Stage Fright (1987) dir. Michele Soavi

[blairwitchbaby]

StageFright

1987, Michele Soavi

[weirdlookindog]

Deliria (1987) - Japanese chirashi

AKA StageFright; Sound Stage Massacre

[silverview]

⚠️ stage/fright notes + audio below the cut ⚠️ spoilers obviously ⚠️

do not look if you have any intention of seeing the show. this is for those who are not going to see it (or if you've already seen it & want to compare notes). i'm only sharing this because the run is sold out.

if you don't want full spoilers but just want to know about something specific (like a trigger warning etc) feel free to ask :)

first off, you can listen to my full recordings here [edit 20-01-2025: removed the link]. all i've done to these is snipped out some audience chat. they're not great quality but i think you can hear everything alright. if you want clarification on what was happening at any point, just let me know & i'll try to remember!

this ⬇ is just an overview with some personal highlights, so i'm sorry for everything i've missed out or gotten wrong.

i'm mostly refraining from commentary or analysis here, but needless to say i am shrieking and writhing on the ground about it.

the first act is a medley of bits & pieces:

it opens with a sketch set in the audience at a production of hamlet. a man (toby manley) sits down alone & fondly places a woman's scarf on the empty seat next to him. three disruptive audience members sit down near him, including one who describes the play aloud:

[edit 20-01-2025: removed the audio]

one of them's rather pudgy... the other one looks like a homosexual 👁👁

anyway, toby gets up and leaves, & reece takes his place. reece proceeds to murder the three disruptive audience members, then addresses the real audience with a polite request not to misbehave during the show.

from the audio you can't appreciate the way reece looks when he's about to finish off his last victim – towering over her, weapon in hand, while she's slumped down and staring up at him in terror, yay

the theme tune is performed live by two fantastically intense women with violins, up in the boxes, staring at each other throughout.

next, steve & reece address the audience as themselves. they explain that the theatre is supposed to be haunted by a ghost called bloody belle. reece believes in ghosts, steve doesn't, and proves it by having the crowd shout "bloody belle" three times to "summon" her

[edit 20-01-2025: removed the audio]

then bcdr is performed more or less as it appeared on tv. on "does it not tickle," len – passing behind tommy – goes for the arse instead of the arms. :|

part way through, tommy discovers a new sketch among len's things, "the kidnapping sketch" –

we see this performed sort-of by len and tommy, using their own names, (working through their own issues,) only in costume as the characters from a quiet night in. (complete with rachmaninoff.) in this segment steve (or rather len) speaks and acts like barry baggs from tlog.

instead of stealing a painting, the quiet night in guys are on a kidnapping job. they kidnap the wrong person, & we're given to understand this will be different celebrity guests depending on the night. tonight it was jim howick!

[edit 20-01-2025: removed the audio]

they make a bunch of gags about jim's work. reece's (or rather tommy's) character accidentally shoots and kills him.

then we get the end of bcdr but WITHOUT tears of laughter. (crucially.) bloody belle appears onstage & screams. end of the first act!

the second act is mostly one long piece, essentially a brand new episode about actors rehearsing a horror play.

in the horror play, reece plays an inmate at an asylum, who performs a comedy song and then gets dragged back to his cell. the song didn't record very well i'm afraid but his deranged laughter is good:

[edit 20-01-2025: removed the audio]

steve (having spent the first act in low status town) gets to play a fantastic hammy sadistic brain surgeon and rapist :) he has reece's character brought back in and strapped to a chair (obviously). then he hypnotises him and forces him to mutilate himself. it's great. normal length clip for normal reasons

[edit 20-01-2025: removed the audio]

then we spend time with the actor characters who are performing the horror play. on this level of reality, reece's character is conspiring to scare an actress away from the production using the bloody belle legend. in this section there are some fun references to the 9th circle tv show :)

at one point in this section, steve's demeanour shifts dramatically. he emotionally talks about actors seeing ghosts of loved ones onstage. he walks over and hugs reece, then exits.

reece's character's scheme is successful, but he belittles & sexually harasses his co-conspirator, who snaps his neck. fin.

when the curtain rises, reece's "corpse" has been replaced by toby manley, who gets up and joins the rest of the cast in the bows. steve addresses the audience about reece's recent death, and explains why he chose to go ahead with the play, with toby playing reece's part. he admits that during the performance, he was seeing reece, not toby.

[edit 20-01-2025: removed the audio]

this is the bit where you're gonna think i'm making it up. steve is hit on the head and killed by a falling light.

he wakes up to see reece in a beautiful white tailcoat, offering him coffee, welcoming him to the afterlife, and gloating about how ghosts are real. they bicker gently, but confess to having missed each other, and agree to haunt the theatre together. "every ghost story is really just a love story." [extremely long pause that must be heard to be believed]

[edit 20-01-2025: removed the audio]

reece points out the bcdr performance was incomplete; steve says he couldn't bear to do the song without reece. steve has a costume change to match reece (plus white top hats) so they look like they're getting married, and they perform a big heavenly afterlife version of tears of laughter with the whole cast. FIN FOR REAL. FOR REAL. IT'S REAL.

[edit 20-01-2025: removed the audio]

very VERY brief & incomplete thoughts:

len very clearly putting his real feelings about tommy into the kidnapping sketch. what that implies about reece & steve. screeching and howling

i don't think it's really implied that ghost!reece is responsible for steve's death, but it's a possibility we can't discount. "we're both here now, and that's the main thing." that's true love. maureen & david style

tumblr user bluvlet said something like "grief in this show is like the hare or the number 9." i have a half-finished vid about that idea that i'm impatient to get back to. definitely obsessing over it tonight.

they are obsessed with each other and with rehearsing their own (each other's) deaths.

[peepeepy]

CAINE X GANGLE

❤️StageFright 🧡

[vampirecorleone]

Horrorween Day 18 / 31: Stage Fright (1987) dir. Michael Soavi "You know that people have a morbid curiosity about murder. And they're going to line up for blocks to see a show in which one of the actresses has been murdered by the real-life maniac in the plot!"

[ask-the-scaredylovers]

Haii everyone

Sooo sorry for not posting much but don’t worry!! I’m working on the next post very very soon. I’ve gotten a lot better at drawing gangle so now I feel a lot better about posting!! One of the main reasons I keep going on hiatus is really how I was drawing before- I wasn’t really proud of it. But I’m much happier with it now so my motivation should begin to come back soon‼️

Anyways take some doodles of the girls for now!! Ty for your patience!

[poimtedpossum]

Eepy Stagefright (+some doodles)

Gangle wears one of these things to scare Jax away while she sleeps :p

[classichorrorblog]

StageFright (1987)

[youngestdaughteroftheuniverse]

So... Last night I saw Stage/Fright. FULL SPOILERS random thoughts below the cut.

-"Every ghost story is really just a love story" insane about this and the way it is said.

-The guest was Ralf Little and in his scene he lost composure, and so did Reece but Steve managed to hold it together pretty well even though everybody was laughing

-I love how the beginning is just them threatening the audience with death if they misbehave

-Tommy and Len get the first half of the show all to themselves, loved it

-Wouldn't know how to explain it but I loved how they used the camera and the screen in the play

-They really love killing of characters, and especially themselves

-The end with Tears of Laughter is the best thing I've ever seen

-Gaby French was incredible. The whole cast is incredible but to me she really stood out. Loved how she murdered Reece's character

-"Every ghost story is really just a love story" Tommy and Len is a love story

-"Every ghost story is really just a love story" Reece and Steve is a love story ??????

-So cute how at the last "Laughter is my memory of you" they point to the audience.

Anyway, too many thoughts, will put more down later perhaps, but yeah, it was incredible.

[goryhorroor]

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