The age of Blu-Ray has brought out some really excellent hidden treasures that, for whatever reason, time had forgotten about. I'd hoped Dance Macabre would be one of those films. It only had a quick release on VHS back in the early 90's and no one ever brought it back up again. Still, hearing about it, I was intrigued.
The elements are all here for a great movie. You have genre legend Robert Englund in a bizarre, multi-character performance, a great setting, the backdrop of ballet, and a crazed murderer running around. It all appears to add up to some potentially interesting Argento-esque thrills. How did it end up being this boring?
Englund's character is the head of a prestigious ballet school in Russia who believes his newest addition to the program is a dead ringer for his lover who was killed in an accident years ago. Someone starts killing people so that she can end up being the star dancer.
All the death scenes are bland and suspense-free and only Englund really sticks out as an interesting actor. Any scenes he's not in are nap inspiring. The music score sounds like something from a late 80's training video and the big twist is so telegraphed and obvious that you wonder why they even bothered to give it a big reveal. Don't bother with this one.
The elements are all here for a great movie. You have genre legend Robert Englund in a bizarre, multi-character performance, a great setting, the backdrop of ballet, and a crazed murderer running around. It all appears to add up to some potentially interesting Argento-esque thrills. How did it end up being this boring?
Englund's character is the head of a prestigious ballet school in Russia who believes his newest addition to the program is a dead ringer for his lover who was killed in an accident years ago. Someone starts killing people so that she can end up being the star dancer.
All the death scenes are bland and suspense-free and only Englund really sticks out as an interesting actor. Any scenes he's not in are nap inspiring. The music score sounds like something from a late 80's training video and the big twist is so telegraphed and obvious that you wonder why they even bothered to give it a big reveal. Don't bother with this one.