Stage Fright tries too damn hard to sit with theater kids at lunch but secretly considers them losers.

Likely to inspire much exiting stage left and right.

Writer-director Jerome Sable, who co-wrote the songs with Eli Batalion, has a sharp ear for musical pastiche, from Andrew Lloyd Weber to heavy metal. But he comes up flat on the horror-musical spoof.

This Canadian indie is rough around the edges, but if you’re not on board by the end of the hilarious camp arrival song, then you will be by the time our kabuki-masked killer starts singing heavy metal...