Theater Of Blood/MadHouse (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
by Douglas Hickox, Jim Clark
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Actor: Adrienne Corri, Diana Rigg, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Vincent PriceDirector: Douglas Hickox, Jim Clark
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Writer: Angus Hall
Writer: Anthony Greville-Bell
Writer: Greg Morrison
Writer: John Kohn
Writer: Ken Levison
Writer: Stanley Mann
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 195 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Theater Of Blood/MadHouse (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
Movie Review: No Mercy?/Pity
Summary: 4 Stars
Sure I liked "Theatre of Blood".What got me was the lack of remorse from Diana Rigg.She watches poor George Maxwell get butchered by a drunken mob with no feelings.Think about the murder settings.Do not you think the policemen could of heard Chloe Moon scream(Even a gagged scream)?Would not there have been police around the hair salon?Do not you think the police have lab work to investigate murders?By the way which one of "The Meth Drinkers"was Tutte Lemkow?Jeffrey Lynn Haag is my name.
Summary of Theater Of Blood/MadHouse (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
Theater of BloodVincent Price delivers a thrilling "tour-de-force" (Variety) performance as a small-time actor plotting big-time revenge in inventively Shakespearean ways! Boasting a topnotch supporting cast, this dramatically "delicious concoction" (New York) delivers an "equal mixture of horror, comedy and Shakepeare [that'll] please just about everyone ? critics included" (Boxoffice) and proves that all the world really is a stage for MURDER!MadhouseMasters of macabre Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Robert Quarry give performances to die for in this "diverting little chiller" (Boxoffice)! When horror star Paul Toombes' fianc?e is brutally killed, he loses more than this job he loses his mind. But twelve years later, when he returns to TV ? only to discover a fresh batch of corpses ? Paul finally begins to understand that melodrama can be murder on your career!If your sense of humor is even moderately twisted, you'll savor Theatre of Blood, a 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
Madhouse doesn't skimp on the horror-movie trimmings: Vincent Price in his campy post-Poe era, a crazy woman kept in the basement, the murder of an ex-porn star, and. Peter Cushing. All of which turns out to be barely tolerable as drive-in fodder, for this is the least of Price's run of revenge movies in the early Seventies. He plays an actor identified with his horror-movie roles (famed for playing "Dr. Death"), who attempts a comeback after a long layoff. Alas, his instability affects the production--or something does, not that you'll likely care about the explanation. Cushing has a collection of Price's old AIP movies to sit around and watch, and Adrienne Corri is the lady in the basement. Ham-handedly directed and confusingly plotted, this one's for diehard Price fans only. And their reward comes at the end, when the actor can be heard crooning "When Day Is Done" over the end credits. --Robert Horton
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