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Theater Of Blood is a movie for die hard, hard core fans of Vincent Price, of which I’m one, but since I felt this movie was pretty easily figured out, maybe I’m not as hardcore of a fan as I thought! Well, to be fair, the material Price had to work with was just passable. The movie was too predictable. The whole story is about an actor, a Shakespearean actor named Edward Lionheart, who’s so obsessed with the purity of his acting as it applies to Shakespeare, that he starts a homicidal murdering binge on a group of critics who’ve denied him a coveted gold plated award as the best actor. Shades of Oscar? When the group, called the “Critic's Circle” pick a younger actor for the award over Lionheart, he confronts the wine-sipping, pompous, self-absorbed/self important group and verbally attacks them. When he realizes the extent of their disdain and mirth against him and his acting skills, he jumps off of the balcony to his death. The rest of the movie is totally devoted to the thoughtfully prepared murders (all according, by method, to Shakespeare’s stories) of the “Critic's Circle”. Through it all, Price wails a running commentary of Shakespeare while doing the deeds. Yet, the movie never properly builds up sympathy for Lionheart or true hatred for the critics. The movie also stars the ex-Avenger Diana Rigg, as his yummy daughter in crime, Edwina. Price made better flicks then Theater Of Blood. Pass this one up.

• Released: 4/5/1973
• Starring: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Jack Hawkins, Michael Hordern
• Directed By: Douglas Hickox
• Running Time: 104 min
• Motion Picture Association Rated: R
• Company: Cineman Productions
• Horror Catagory: Horror/Revenge Killer

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	Lionheart is totally demolished after the real truth hits home; the Critic's Circle hate him and his work.
The first critic gets speared by Lionheart in Theater Of Blood.
	The second critic gets dragged by a horse over gravel. Meatloaf, anyone?
Another gets his head chopped......
	......and stuffed on another critic's morning milk bottle.
A twink critic gets fed his two "little babies" (poodles) in a pie. Lionheart and his minions force feed him to death.
	A really snooty critic gets her hair done the hard way with electricity by a hippie camouflaged Lionheart.
A costumed Lionheart cuts another critic's heart out of his chest.
	A hated critic has the pleasure of waiting for twin knives to slowly punture his eyes and brain tissue.