Dance Macabre

Dance Macabre (1992) is a ballet-set horror starring Robert Englund that you can watch online on iFILM (16+). Yes, the same Englund who played Freddy Krueger — here he swaps the bladed glove for a choreographer's cane, and the role turns out just as menacing.

Jessica, a young American dancer, reluctantly enrolls at a Russian ballet academy. Her new mentor, Anthony, is charming, exacting, and clearly taken with his gifted pupil. The trouble is her face: she is the spitting image of a lover he lost long ago. Admiration curdles into obsession, and behind the velvet curtains of the old theater, things start happening that no one can rationally explain. The cast includes Robert Englund, Michelle Zeitlin and Jolyn Renee, directed by Greydon Clark.

Filmed in St. Petersburg as a Russian-American co-production at the very start of the Nineties, it blends the hush of classical ballet with the mechanics of a slasher. For fans of retro creep-fests and Englund completists, this one is an easy pick. Stream Dance Macabre (1992) online on iFILM.