When an elite dance academy behind the Iron Curtain suddenly allows American ballerinas to enroll, things immediately go terribly wrong. We promise it’s not because they didn’t cast any actual ballerinas to be in the movie. It’s more murder-related.
Robert Englund plays both Madame, the faded Russian Prima Ballerina running the academy, AND the American hotshot sex-man ballerina who caused the motorcycle accident which abruptly ended her career. These are clearly the roles he was born to play. No notes.
This is SUSPIRIA, minus all the pretty light and glass… but with big boobs, knives, insane dance routines, hot tub sequences you really aren’t expecting… and so much beautiful melodrama. It’s an extremely satisfying early 90’s slasher on its own, and becomes transcendent cinema when you add the extreme charisma of Englund as the gloriously camp faded grande damme, Madame.
Dance Macabre is a criminally under-watched banger from genre hero, director Greydon Clark, which we here at Blood Shed Theater would very much like to correct.
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