2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jerome Sable’s Stage Fright

We first discovered Jerome Sable when he broke ground with the Sundance accepted short, 2010’s The Legend of Beaver Dam. When there was no mention of Stage Fright for September’s Toronto Int. Film Fest, I mentally circled Sable’s name for a mention in the Sundance ’14 program. With an almost guaranteed certainty, the fully fledged filmmaker and accomplished film composer with a good number of shorts under his belt has a brand we can call his own. This horror musical (shot in September of ’12) stars the ensemble that can belt out the tunes as well in Minnie Driver, Meat Loaf, Allie MacDonald and Douglas Smith.

Gist: Minnie Driver plays Kylie Swanson, the enigmatic and haunted star of the Broadway stage, and mother of siblings Camilla (MacDonald) and Buddy (Smith) who find themselves at the centre of the unfolding horror at the camp. Meat Loaf plays Roger McCall, the fallen-from-grace Broadway producer turned camp director.

Production Co./Producers: Serendipity Point Films’ Ari Lantos (Barney’s Version), Jonas Bell Pasht.

Prediction: Should be among the hottest ticket offerings at the Park City at Midnight section.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

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