The Devil's Carnival is a 2012 musical horror film directed by
Darren Lynn Bousman starring
Sean Patrick Flannery,
Briana Evigan,
Jessica Lowndes,
Paul Sorvino,
Emilie Autumn and
Terrance Zdunich. The film marks the second collaboration of Bousman and writer/actor
Terrance Zdunich, their previous work being on the unrelated musical film
Repo! The Genetic Opera. The film also brings back several of the cast members of
Repo!, such as Sorvino,
Alexa Vega,
Bill Moseley and
Nivek Ogre.
The Devil's Carnival has
Aesop's Fables at the core of its story, with the main characters each representing a fable. Flanery's character John represents
Grief and His Due, Evigan's character Merrywood represents
The Dog and Its Reflection, and Lowndes' character Tamara represents
The Scorpion and the Frog.