Stagefright (1987)
Although the first half of debut director Michele Soavi's film about a crazed killer running amok during rehearsals on a musical production is a bit of a slog as it throws out a stereotypical bunch of musical play types - bitchy lead actress, rejected actress, gay extra, ego inflated director, lecherous producer - however the gory murders keep you interested until a far more interesting showdown between the owl masked killer and the resourceful final girl.
Although i've never found Stagefright a top class giallo slasher film, some of the imagery is certainly memorable such as the weird bird masked killer arranging the bodies of his victims across the stage like some macabre theatre production bathed in a sea of blood.
Good but not great.
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