The Theatre Bizarre (2012)

The wraparound segments are truly bizarre, but there is a subtle progression within them - see if you can spot it before it's too late. "Mother Of Toads" is atmospheric but muddled. "I Love You" is disturbing but brilliant, with two strong performances by its leads. "Wet Dreams" is a cheap, gory mishmash. "The Accident" is elegiac and beautifully done, but feels incomplete. "Vision Stains" is squalid, ugly, and for strong stomachs only. "Sweets" is an one-joke tale that takes too long to get to the punchline. On the whole this is an uneven anthology, but don't miss "I Love You" if you like horror for and about adults - a rare thing indeed. **1/2 out of 4.

Let me make clear that I'm not giving my review of the whole movie, my review is strictly for the segment: The accident,which caught my eye when I saw it, the segment is very different from the others in perspective it does not fit into the hole movie which focuses on horror and gore.What separates it from the other shorts is its gentle nature in the narrative of properly speaking of what is death,how a child has her first experience with death,to be more precise how a mother explains to her what is death,this narrative jumps from the day of the accident to a conversation from mother to daughter that same night,we see images of motorcycle accident which are witness by both and we cut to a warm moment between mother and daughter, daughter in her bed and her mother beside her explaining the meaning of life and death for the first time to her child,the girl asking her questions about why people die and how the mother dose not have the answer to it and trying to convince her that death is not always a bad thing.The accident is incredible mixture of storytelling and music, the song is a combination of orchestra with electronic sounds with vocal samples, giving us a calm vibe and a little disturbing at the same time fitting perfectly with the story.It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death-Terry Pratchett

For the first time I've commented on a movie on IMDb.. I woke during the night, restless. Decided to watch Theatre of the Bizarre. I couldn't have chose a more perfect movie to watch in the early hours half asleep.. The overall feel and atmosphere is just hypnotic. The tales are very stylish, well paced, shot, scripted and acted and all as good as each other in their own very different ways and the link scenario in the Theatre is just dreamy gorgeous! The soundtrack does a fantastic job, just floats along with the visuals nicely, never imposes it's self. Not overly gory, a lot of the violence is implied rather than seen! {Although I seem to remember a few scenes where 'implied' was put to bed in brutal fashion!). Anyways....I loved this movie! More of the same please :)I could see The Theatre of the Bizarre becoming a cult classic!

This is one to avoid IMO. It's a compilation of different strange stories joined together by the main one. The first short story was okay and scary in a H.P. Lovecraft way. They are also R-rated, some contain adult situations and nudity besides excessive gore. We had to stop about half way through the film. The short stories were progressively gory and depressing as the movie went on. I especially didn't care for the scene with the motorcycle accident and the little girl who witnesses it. They made it a point to dwell on the deer that was involved in the accident and it's suffering. My advice is to avoid this flick, if you think you have an opinion in any way similar to mine about graphic gore and depressing stories.