
The Theatre Bizarre (2011)
Welcome to the Theatre of the Absurd.
114 min
Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep.
- Release date
- July 15, 2011
- Country of origin
- United States, France
Trailer
Cast
- Udo Kier as Peg Poett (framing segments)
- Virginia Newcomb as Enola Penny (framing segments)
- Amanda Marquardt as Squalid Woman (framing segments)
- Amelia Gotham as Gypsy (framing segments)
- Jeremy Gladen as Naked Man (framing segments)
- Liberty Larsen as Little Girl (framing segments)
- Christopher Sachs as Groom (framing segments)
- Nicole Fabbri as Bride (framing segments)
- Catriona MacColl as Mere Antoinette (segment: The Mother Of Toads)
- Shane Woodward as Martin (segment: The Mother Of Toads)
Crew
- Douglas Buck · Director
- Buddy Giovinazzo · Director
- David Gregory · Director
- Karim Hussain · Director
- Zach Chassler · Writer
- Richard Stanley · Writer
- Scarlett Amaris · Writer
- Emiliano Ranzani · Writer
- Nicco Ardin · Producer
- Simon Boswell · Producer
- John Cregan · Producer
- Carl Daft · Producer
- Simon Boswell · Composer
- Susan DiBona · Composer
- Pierre Marchand · Composer
- Mark Raskin · Composer
- Eduardo Fierro · Cinematographer
- John Honoré · Cinematographer
- Karim Hussain · Cinematographer
- Michael Kotschi · Cinematographer
- Robert Bohrer · Editor
- Douglas Buck · Editor
- Maxx Gillman · Editor
- Pauline Pallier · Editor
- Gesine Giovinazzo-Todt · Casting director
- Aaron Griffith · Casting director
- Fabrice Lambot · Casting director
- Victoria Sanchez · Casting director
- Arnaud de La Giraudiere · Production designer
- Mathieu Giguère · Production designer
- Lisa Loher · Production designer
- Lorry O'Toole · Production designer