Theatre of Blood (1973)
Directed by Douglas Hickox
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
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What critics compared Theatre of Blood to
The chief influence clearly comes from Douglas Hickox's classic thriller Theatre of Blood (1973), in which the cinema's supreme exponent of Poe, Vincent Price, plays a sadistic old actor exacting revenge on the London theatre critics' circle by dispatching them one by one in gory death scenes from Shakespeare.
Or if you must, at least have as much fun with it as Theatre of Blood did.
We had murders based on Shakespeare plays in the great British horror Theatre of Blood .
It also evokes the notion of the “creature” that dishes out justice to the evil “normals” that was a 70s horror staple (THEATRE OF BLOOD comes to mind)…