Obscure Genres : Dark Cabaret

Dark Cabaret Music is essentially like Gothic or dark circus and cabaret music. The aesthetic is important to the genre is really is just goth meets Cirque Couture. They say it is inspired by Weimar Era Cabaret, Burlesque and Vaudeville. The idea you wanna go for with dark cabaret is like a poor traveling circus who is out casted and can only get gigs in bad parts of town. The whole goth thing fits right in and you ofttimes find dark cabaret songs talking about grotesque or tragic events. Storytelling is a big part of the music you wanna tell a chilling tale about be able to act it out like theater but dark theater accompanied by music.

There dark cabaret fashion is excellent it's my favorite thing and I try to incorporate Cirque into my daily dress because I'm avid about the circus and goth and dark cabaret I feel right at home with. The dress is goth + circus like I mentioned before. The music you hear circus waltzes, cabaret songs and polka rock type stuff it's never really electronic music it's real classical instruments you would find in a circus or gypsy band. The most popular artist has got to be dresden dolls which are wonderful but I personally think circus contraption is my favorite group. They do a whole live circus show using their songs and the albums are amazing.

 

Top Artists:

Voltaire 

The Tiger Lillies

Vermillion Lies

The Dresden Dolls

Evelyn Evelyn

Beat Circus

Circus Contraption

Freakshow 2007 Revamp Review

Freakshow

Backup of original blog post found here.

Freakshow the 2007 Indie film by Asylum Studios directed by Drew Bell is a remake of a classic horror called Freaks made in 1932 bringing you a chilling and slightly demented view of a traveling circus and freakshow and the psychotic residents therein.

The story goes that a local gang of thieves plans to cheat the freakshow and make it big. The female of the group plans to Whoo the ringleader, kill em and take the cash but they lose their heads kill a freak and they take brutal revenge. The ending is the most gruesome! >:)

So my opinion of this film..

Well to be quite frank the cameras were kinda cheap screwing up the lighting at times. The story was fine but the korny drama aspect of this movie made it a little boring. The big shocker suddenly happens at the end leaving you horrified and disgusted at the same time. I would recommend watching it at least once to see how it turns out but I wouldn't recommend spending money on it unless you're a collector.

Its more of a teenager movie lots of just talking gossip drama and sex but once again the ending takes a very sadistic turn for the creepy. It ends like a good ghost story would but getting there is a lazy mans battle. Just stick through it.

Something cool to point out is in the beginning they show a bunch of old pictures of freaks from the depression age I believe. Pretty cool stuff. Of coarse I use the term in a powerful sense. Nothing wrong with being different or having skills! ;)

And voila. That is my review.

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