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Theater of Blood

Vincent Price (Actor), Diana Rigg (Actor), Douglas Hickox (Director) Rated:

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Format	Subtitled, Letterboxed, Color, Widescreen, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Dolby
Contributor	Ian Hendry, Arthur Lowe, Milo O'Shea, Douglas Hickox, Stanley Mann, Diana Rigg, Robert Morley, Jack Hawkins, John Kohn, Harry Andrews, Robert Coote, Vincent Price, Dennis Price, Coral Browne, Anthony Greville-Bell, Michael Hordern, William Shakespeare See more
Language	English, French
Runtime	1 hour and 44 minutes

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If your sense of humor is even moderately twisted, you'll savor this tasty course of well-cooked ham. Directed with delectable British wit by Douglas Hickox, the comedy is decidedly dark when Vincent Price--as effete has-been thespian Richard Lionheart--wreaks poetic justice upon the snobby critics who panned his performances and drove him to a failed attempt at suicide. Reciting his poor reviews and staging murders inspired by Shakespearean tragedies, the actor and his Dickensian coterie of accomplices (including Diane Rigg, sexy as ever) dispatch their victims with shocking ingenuity, and by the time Lionheart reenacts Titus Andronicus by gorging one dog-loving critic (the hilariously poofy Robert Morley) on toy-poodle stew, Theatre of Blood reaches giddy heights of outrageous vengeance. It's all in good fun, of course, and the film's esteemed British cast plays it to the hilt, none better than Price in one of his most entertaining roles. --Jeff Shannon

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.66:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches; 4 ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Douglas Hickox
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Dolby, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 44 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ August 28, 2001
Actors ‏ : ‎ Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Spanish, French
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Studio ‏ : ‎ MGM (Video & DVD)
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005K3OD
Writers ‏ : ‎ Anthony Greville-Bell, John Kohn, Stanley Mann, William Shakespeare
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2024

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I originally saw this in the theater. I was happy to find it on dvd. I recently lost my hearing, so I had to replace this movie. It is subtitled. It is still the hot it was when I first saw it. Loved Price as the gay hairdresser! A good combo of horror and comedy.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2019

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It is ironic and perhaps appropriate that THEATER OF BLOOD was released the same year as THE EXORCIST for it is the latter that would forever do away with the old school type of horror film that Vincent Price specialized in and begat the mainstreaming of the gross out horror film that is still is with us today. While the murders in THEATER OF BLOOD are gory, they are not realistic and are not meant to be. They are deliberately in the style of Grand Guignol which is part of the tradition that this movie pays homage to.

It is no accident that the film opens with Shakespearean scenes from the silent era and their melodramatic performances. Some of those scenes can be found on a marvelous DVD called SILENT SHAKESPEARE while the OTHELLO clip features the great German actor Emil Jannings and is from his 1922 film version of the play. Vincent Price's Edward Lionheart is clearly along the lines of Tod Slaughter and Donald Wolfit and the fact that an actor of that style would still be around in 1970 adds to the unreality of it all.

As has been mentioned by others, the film is really an opportunity for Price to indulge in, make fun of, and pay tribute to the type of performances he gave in the 1960s especially in the AIP/Roger Corman Poe films. It also takes swipes at contemporary performers (the actor who gets the award instead of Lionheart is named William Woodstock), critics in general (one is named Hector Snipe, another who is a notorious ladies man is Trevor Dickman), and Shakespeare himself (the rewriting of the ending of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE).

Adding to the fun are some of Britain's greatest stage performers such as Michael Hordern, Harry Andrews, and Arthur Lowe along with movie and TV stars like Robert Morley, Jack Hawkins and Ian Hendry. Then there is Diana Rigg, fresh from THE AVENGERS and looking to return to the stage. She has said that this was one of the very few films that she enjoyed making and thought highly of. Throw in Diana Dors (the British Shelley Winters), Milo O'Shea (Duran Duran in BARBARELLA), and Coral Browne (THE RULING CLASS) who would ultimately become the third Mrs Vincent Price, and you have a once in a lifetime cast of British talent.

Director Douglas Hickox uses all London locations (there are no studio sets) giving us a time capsule of 1970s London much of which no longer exists. The photography is straight forward and the musical soundtrack adds to the film's enjoyment. In fact the Twilight Time Blu-Ray I'm reviewing gives you the option of hearing just the soundtrack and not the dialogue which with the subtitles turns it into a silent film experience. The Shakespearean murders are clever and occasionally in bad taste but that's what makes THEATER OF BLOOD so worthwhile for fans of Price and of theatrical productions. If you enjoy that type of entertainment than it doesn't get better than this.

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Vincent Price's movies are almost always fun, but it's easy to miss that he was actually a first rate actor behind the often campy material. His performance here is masterful, playing an actor who always overacts, but without overacting himself. His character, an old "matinee idol" who thinks of himself as the world's greatest actor, is the epitome of any man who has devoted his life to a craft, to receive only scorn in the end. In the meantime, the younger generation gets the honors which he thinks of as his.

He murders his way, one by one, through the critics circle which he blames for his humiliation, each crime based on incidents in Shakespeare's plays. The fate of the queen and her children from Titus Andronicus takes a particularly bizarre form, with the "queen" and children not what one would expect. He is assisted by a band of derelicts and a mustached assistant whose identity is not a mystery for very long.

The supporting performances are all what they need to be, but nobody stands out very much, with the possible exception of Ian Hendry as the last critic left. Diana Rigg is good in a not very large role as the actor's daughter, as is Milo O'Shea as the police inspector in charge of the investigation. A group of homeless "meths drinkers" are both assistants and an audience for the theatrical murders, and add to the atmosphere of the murder scenes.

All in all, this not so much late night horror movie fare as it is an intelligent black comedy. I first watched this, on television, as a teenager and realized none of this. Seeing it now, it's possible to appreciate the things that I missed the first time around.

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Mark Fisher

Great movie

Reviewed in Canada on May 20, 2023

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One of Vincent Price best performance.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 29, 2017

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Down the main road that runs alongside the home of pompous local Civil Servant and critic George Maxwell (Michael Hordern) runs a delivery van – Shakespeare’s Deliveries, of course. Maxwell is immediately a caricature of authority; self-important, arrogant and very easy to manipulate. His ego is massaged sufficiently by a call from the local police to help rid a doomed warehouse of a gang of meth drinkers and vagabonds. The first glimpse we see of the mighty Vincent Price is behind a heavy moustache and police uniform, as he ushers Maxwell towards the unsightly crew of grubby tramps. Clipping them with his umbrella and advising them to leave the vicinity immediately, Maxwell finds the atmosphere quickly turns sinister as bottles are broken and the sneers and gurgles of the incapacitated characters are directed towards him. The two policemen stand by as the vagrants rip him to shreds. An exaggerated establishment figure he may be, it is nevertheless very satisfying to see his pomposity pricked like a balloon as it slowly dawns on Maxwell he is beyond help.

Maxwell is part of a group of similarly snotty art critics who have all savaged the career of hopeless Shakespearian ham Edward Lionheart (Price), who apparently killed himself as a result of their hostile reviews. Even his apparent suicide is an embarrassing over-the-top performance (the final goodbye to his critics is greeted by cruel sneers and jibes as, tortured by his own madness, he throws himself into the sea). Yet, he still lives, and with the aid of his daughter Edwina (Diana Rigg, unconvincingly disguised as a male throughout – I mention that not as a criticism; she is an extension of her father’s lack of subtlety after all), aims to kill every one of the group utilising scenes from Shakespeare’s finest.

And what a group they are. Among the many elaborate and memorable deaths, Horace Sprout (Arthur Lowe) is beheaded as he sleeps next to his wife. The maid comes in with the breakfast, screams as she sees the blood, which wakes Mrs Sprout (Joan Hickson), allowing the dismembered head to roll onto the floor, giving her convulsions. Later that morning, Peregrine Devlin (Ian Hendry) idly retrieves the milk bottle from the front step only to find Sprout’s head wedged onto one of the bottles. Later, Robert Morley’s camp dog-lover Meredith Merridew (and his beloved poodles) appears to win a celebrity competition in which he is treated to a painstakingly prepared delicacy, lovingly crafted by a disguised Lionheart and his crew. Naturally, Lionheart’s chef is a ham with an awful accent, casually plucking hairs from Merridew’s dinner. That he is eating his own dogs may not be a huge surprise, but the revelation is horrifying and utterly repellent (“Pity. He didn’t have the stomach for it”).

It is difficult to name a favourite film from Vincent Price’s incredible career. For my money it comes down to his restrained performance as the cruel Matthew Hopkins in ‘Witchfinder General (1968)’, and this, the opposite extreme and a gift of a part for Price’s finely honed excesses. Often caked in the grotesquery of theatrical make-up, his playing of OTT Lionheart allows him every opportunity to give the largest of performances, whilst always remaining in character. And yet such is Lionheart’s self-belief and misplaced dignity, he becomes far more than a hopeless ham: he is a truly tragic, misunderstood figure, so engulfed in his theatricality that he is little else without it. His loyal daughter adds to this awful nobility, as do his audience of the meth-drinkers we saw at the start (they pulled him from the stagnant waters after his elaborate suicide). They applaud his over-acting in return for the coins he throws benignly toward them. Douglas Kickox’s tremendous direction adds further colour to this, closing his cameras tightly on Lionheart’s performances, barely containing them, and then zooming out slowly to find it being paraded in the isolation of an abandoned and ramshackle theatre. What an incredible creation Lionheart is.

With a cast including further veteran stalwarts as Joan Hickson, Arthur Lowe, Jack Hawkins, Dennis Price and Diana Dors, this is as great a horror film as Lionheart perceives himself. The finale is spectacularly sliced grand-guignol, with Rigg imploring the band of stoned vagrants to help her doomed father before being killed herself, leaving him trapped, totally deranged and beyond hope, in his burning theatre. This time, there is no mockery or sneering at his final performance. Hendry’s admiration for him is so grudging, however, it makes us wish he too had been one of the victims. An outstanding film.

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Reviewed in France on January 29, 2017

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Un acteur mal aimé se venge d'une confrérie de critiques redoutés. Avec l'aide de mendiants qui l'ont sauvé de son suicide il va les assassiner un par un à la manière du théâtre de Shakespeare dans la pièce où chacun l'a le plus raillé. Sa fille aimante l'aide à mettre en scène des crimes de plus en plus fous.
Scénario ingénieux et tordu. Réalisation éblouissante de Douglas Hickox. Vincent Price et Diana Rigg remarquables.
Les autres acteurs, tous très connus sont à la hauteur jusqu'aux plus humbles (les mendiants).
Ce film est un acte d'amour à Shakespeare et aux acteurs. Le criminel paranoïaque nous inspire de la compassion tant les critiques sont des êtres médiocres.
Un chef-d'oeuvre du film fantastique aux personnages fouillés, où les crimes jamais gratuits, ont un mobile précis : pas de serial killer sans visage qui tue sans mobile ! Duplication correcte, plusieurs langues disponibles.
Vu ce film en 1973, il m 'avait beaucoup impressionné et ému (je suis acteur). Je le recommande à tous ceux qui sont trop jeunes pour le connaître ...

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Reviewed in France on May 1, 2020

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Dernier film commandé série Vincent Price, que du bonheur, Vincent Price et les autres également, le théâtre, les critiques (humains) et la vengeance, terrible et drôlement bien ficelée font de ce film un régal, en tout cas pour moi,
Cinq sur cinq je ne peux aller plus loin.
QUE DU BONHEUR, on peut dire ça de ce genre de cinéma, scénario, acteurs et tout le toutim, génial.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2017

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Title: THEATRE OF BLOOD (1973)
Label: ARROW VIDEO
Tranfer by: MGM
Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1

Some Thoughts About The Movie:
THEATRE OF BLOOD is a funny, kind of grim and sarcastic little old fashioned „splatter“ movie. The cast is wonderful and it has a certain oddity attached to it. Set- and costume design is mentionable. The cinematography is very good. It is an unusal little movie because it focuses purely on the many creative constructed death sequences (in a row). The story indeed is simple but who cares? People get killed for (very) dubious reasons. Visually highly enjoyable and professionally done. A movie made by real filmmakers. So to say the movie is straight foreward and very consequent. If it had been done nowadays maybe it would be just a torture porn movie but probably without the style and all the lovely set design details. I am lucky THAETRE OF BLOOD was made in my favourite decade for art, movies and music ever. The 70th…and so it has become a special movie which has a lot of cult-followers today. Enjoy Shakespeare!

No Grain Baby, No Gain / The Transfer:
The 2K BD Transfer was done by MGM and fortunately they did a quality above their usual avarage transfers. In every aspect this transfer is very film-like regarding grain-structure (fine and organic), texture, deep dimension picture, color and grey-level. The picture is stable and well cleaned although some debris is left over in the print – what I find to appeal even more film-like. During the head-scene you will notice some damages but they are not distracting and I am happy they did not choose another source as an insert. Well done! I have been collecting this movie ever since and at this moment this IS the definite version! TOB never looked better and probably wont in the near future.

Cut and Run:
This is a version integrale from one complete source. NO noticeable inserts from different sources have been applied. I find this most important for a fluent visual experience. The movie has passed uncut by the BBFC.

Final Thoughts:
Fans, collectors and people with big screens or projectors can should spent their money without further doubt. This is the definite verison! Film-like through and through. A joy. Curtains, applause, encore.

How I rate / What I rate:
My ratings refer exclusively to technical aspects of BD sets. The more film-like a HD transfer looks and feels via a projection, the more high-class the source is scanned and digitally treated afterwards, the higher my ratings will be. Digital phenomenons like edge enhancement, block noise, digital appealing grain, swarming grain / noise behavoir and DNR filtering will directly result in lower ratings.
I do not rate movies at all. In the introduction part I just offer my opinion, based on taste, preferences and knowledge about film/photography in general. Movies are artificial constructions where many efforts have been taken (including complex postproduction) to accomplish a vision of whatsoever kind. No movie made for cinema ever shot has earned a 1 star rating on AMAZON or a 1 point rating on IMDB. I have studied many publications about making films, their psychological impact, and the subject violence on film. I am a hobby photographer knowing much about frame compositions, color and light effects and different styles. I am also a hobby musician and sound designer for my own private joy. I could rate a movie/ its soundrack, but why should I? Things are what they are and nothing more or less. I like to think beyond mind constructed terms of good and bad. So called "objectivity" becomes fast diluted by preferences which results in comments of personal taste. These comments are fine but they go without any base value for creating a rating-scale out of them. Technical aspects are a different kind of matter. DNR, edge enhancement, block noise and such things are obvious even on small screens and maybe we can speak more of objectivity and measurability in this area. I think we should be informed about the quality of a product.

All about Ev(m)e:
I am a collector of films for 27 Years, own about 3.000 films (would be far more, but I often sort out transfers I dont like) and watch them in a home-cinema room via bigscreen projection. I am also a hobby musician and photographer with some experience scanning camera negatives in high definitions. I am fascinated by film (from reels) since I am a kid and spent hours for hours in cinemas and visiting film festivals.

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