Horror Roundtable - Week Fourteen
Name a horror film that you would like to see turned into a broadway musical.
I would go to see Frankenstein, Dracula or The Mummy done with the same production values and attention to detail that was done with Phantom of the Opera.
For sh*ts and giggles, I think that The Amazing Colossal Man would make a great comedy…or possibly The Brain from Planet Arous.
Don May, Jr. - Synapse Films
The original THE TOOLBOX MURDERS… that would be awesome… nude women in bathtubs singing, synchronized nailing…
The Nightmare on Elm Street movies, with Freddy discovering a penchant for tap routines!
David Z. - Tomb It May Concern
I can’t afford to go to a Broadway show! So, I’d like to see A Virgin Among The Living Dead on ICE! I could probably swing that and the kids would love it. See endless twirling up the staircase of mystery! Watch as the triple axle is spun with scissors across a bared breast! Jess Franco directs and the action ZOOMS all around the rink.
Tim - Mondo Schlocko
I would love to see a laserlight show musical on ice with PHANTASM. I dig the idea of dwarves in hooded robes on ice skates and a woman dressed as the silver ball.
I’m all for JASON X, SUPERSTAR. Rex Reed says the “X” stand for “excitement”!
Thrill on a journey through the stars as our favorite reanimated killing machine slays and fillets the singingest, dancingest crew of horny teenagers ever. You get such songs as “Don’t Cryo for Me Mr. X”, “This Barren World of Wonder (Overture)”, “How Do You Solve a Problem Like a Cyber Jason?”, “My Machete Betty”, “Evil Gets a Funk-Grade” and the classic “You and Me and a Killing Spree Makes Three Tonight”:
PROFESSOR: We’ll, I’d have to say…(sings) He’s quite complicated for a corpse who reanimated and I’m sure he’d like know / That he can be a tad cranky, underneath that mask is stanky and I’m afraid that he’s got to go!
JANESSA: Yes, I agree but… (sings) Sure he’s complicated, but his corpse was desecrated and I’m pretty sure that we can all agree/ That to cybernize this yahoo, was not the best thing to do, and I’m afraid that he’s got to go!
JASON X: Ahem….(sings) Yes you made an error, so now you scream in terror, because I don’t belong here in space/ take me back to my home on Crystal Lake or I’ll hafta…
ALL: We don’t wanna…
JASON X: I needta…
ALL: Please don’t-a
JASON X: I’m gonna have to ram this machete in your face!
I’m torn between a musical version of Tod Browning’s Freaks - featuring the showstopper “One of Us (Gooble Gobble)” - or a musical version of Roman Polanski’s Repulsion - the singing narrator being the slowly decaying skinned rabbit, of course. Freaks is ready-made Broadway material, what with the cast of many stories coming together, sort of like Rent with pinheads; but I think the pathos of Carole Ledoux’s solitary descent into madness could make for something truly operatic.
Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive, also known as Braindead, would make an amazing musical. It’s got a very theatrical feeling to it already, and it has a limited number of locations, so it’d work well on stage.
On the other hand, any Dario Argento movie would work well as classical opera. Especially, perhaps, Opera, which would make the whole thing suitably self-referential for the new millennium, etc.
September 30th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
I think a musical version of Demons would work. The kicker would be when the audience finds out that they’re trapped in the theatre and the play is mirroring what’s happening in real life. It could also feature broadway versions of original songs by Rick Springfield, Motley Crue, Billy Idol, plus many more!
October 3rd, 2006 at 11:15 pm
That would be fantastic. You could only perforn it once, though, before everyone realizing watching it would kill you.
October 10th, 2006 at 5:44 pm
I’d have to agree with a musical version of Opera or perhaps something like The Fearless Vampire Killers - but under it’s original title - “Your Teeth in my Neck ” ?
Or how about the little-known Amicus anthology Monster Club ?