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Severin Films Officially Announces MORBID PLEASURES: A COMPENDIUM OF GRAND GUIGNOL & THE GRAND GUIGNOLESQUE

After some recent social media teases, Severin has officially revealed MORBID PLEASURES: A COMPENDIUM OF GRAND GUIGNOL & THE GRAND GUIGNOLESQUE! An absolutely incredible look i...

‘Jaw-dropping’ play based on Pelicot rape trial comes to London for one night

Four-hour production featuring star-studded cast will be performed at London County Hall A play based on the trial of the men who drugged and raped Gisèle Pelicot will come to Lond...

Audience watched as performer crushed to death live on stage

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Yevgeny Kulesh, 38, was reportedly performing in an opera called "Sadko" at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow when he was killed by falling scenery during...

Opera del Sol turns horror flick ‘Evil Dead’ into a groovy, gory musical

Guac at The People’s Theater, an inspired pairing

In a fleeting moment but one that will last forever, Manuel Oliver found out that his 17-year-old son was shot dead, one of the 17 people killed on Valentine’s Day, 2018 at the Mar...

The Road to ‘Bent’

Very occasionally a play has a significance beyond the confines of the theater. Beaumarchais’s Le Mariage de Figaro (1778) sounded the death knell of the feudal droit du seigneur....

The Mortuary brings dark fairy tales to life, expands scares to the Northshore

“Through the Looking Glass,” transforms fairy tales and fantasy into nightmares. A murderous Alice, a sinister Wizard of Oz and the Vam-pirates of Neverland are among the character...

The Night Never Ends

Indie horror film Night of the Living Dead (1968) comes live to Very Little Theatre’s stage. Director Adam Leonard is obsessed with horror, so the … Continue reading →

Deathly Divine

Prepare for a spookily sensual night of dancing, mystery and suspense at TripleXcape Productions’ The Deadly Affair: At The House Of Red. The show explores … Continue reading →

Phantasmagoria does Frankenstein at the Dr. Phillips Center

‘A Ghost in Your Ear’: Headphone Horror Haunts Off-Broadway

Jamie Armitage's headphone horror play A Ghost in Your Ear, starring Lucas Iverson and Owen Campbell, plays Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre in New York through November 22. The post...

Best Board Game Brought to Life: ClueX

The show blends killer costumes, humor, live music, raunchy choreography and audience interaction into pure theatrical magic.

The Scottish play, made darker by Verdi

Tonight, via slippedisc.com OperaVision streams Verdi’s Macbeth from... The post The Scottish play, made darker by Verdi appeared first on Slippedisc.

Clown Show review – after 250 years, the American dream explodes over one anarchic night

King’s theatre, Edinburgh The pranks and pratfalls in Geoff Sobelle’s show mark the US’s 250th anniversary with nihilistic excessThey are a forlorn lot, this bunch who shuffle glum...

Charlie Shaw’s Revenge review – creepy clown killer takes aim at struggling amusement park

Decent effects and a late-stage twist show promise, but this gore-fest needs to be more disgusting, funny or unnervingThe film opens with a lone figure striding into the foreground...

Severin’s ‘Morbid Pleasures’ Box Set Runs 60 Films Deep

Severin's Morbid Pleasures gathers more than 60 Grand Guignol films from 1895 to 2025 across 12 discs, plus a 350-page book. Pre-orders are open at $249. The post Severin’s ‘Morbid...