Theatre of Blood (1973)
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1h 43m
In this darkly comic British horror film from 1973, a once-celebrated Shakespearean actor, thought to be dead, re-emerges to take poetic revenge on the theater critics who scorned him. Each murder is staged to mirror a gruesome death from the Bard’s plays, with a flair for the theatrical and a macabre sense of irony. As the bodies pile up, suspicion turns toward the world of the stage, where drama and death are inseparably intertwined.
Cast:
Vincent Price as Edward Lionheart
Diana Rigg as Edwina Lionheart
Ian Hendry as Peregrine Devlin
Harry Andrews as Trevor Dickman
Robert Coote as Oliver Larding
Michael Hordern as George Maxwell
Robert Morley as Meredith Merridew
Coral Browne as Chloe Moon
Jack Hawkins as Solomon Psaltery
Arthur Lowe as Horace Sprout
Produced by:
Directed by Douglas Hickox
Produced by John Kohn
Screenplay by Anthony Greville-Bell
Music by Michael J. Lewis
Cinematography by Wolfgang Suschitzky
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