Theater of Blood
by Douglas Hickox
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Actor: Coral Browne, Diana Rigg, Harry Andrews, Ian Hendry, Vincent PriceDirector: Douglas Hickox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Theater of Blood
Movie Review: Stupid is as Stupid Does
Summary: 5 Stars
I really just want to respond to the 'one star' reviewer who called Theater of Blood "stupid". If you don't 'get it' you don't have have to insult it. Camp humor is a level of humor that requires some sophistication and this film is a Camp Classic. In fact, Price thought it to be his favorite, as it is one of mine. Its appeal is so great to so many, it was recently adapted as a West End production. The high school theater classes I teach enjoy it as a halloween treat and springboard into our Shakespeare studies. The funny thing is, although they are high schoolers they 'get it' and not one of them has ever called it stupid.
Summary of Theater of Blood
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 ShannonArt House & International DVD Video
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