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Cast
- Vincent PriceEdward Lionheart
- Diana RiggEdwina Lionheart
- Ian HendryPeregrine Devlin
- Harry AndrewsTrevor Dickman
- Coral BrowneChloe Moon
- Robert CooteOliver Larding
- Jack HawkinsSolomon Psaltery
- Michael HordernGeorge Maxwell
- Arthur LoweHorace Sprout
- Robert MorleyMeredith Merridew
Recommendations
- 100
Empire
Superbly Vincent Price! - 90
Los Angeles Times
A triumph of stylish, witty Grand Guignol, it allows Price to range richly between humor and pathos as a crazed Shakespearean actor. It's not too much to say that if horror pictures were taken seriously Price would have been a 1973 Oscar contender. [24 Mar 2005, p.E15] - 80
TV Guide Magazine
Wholly entertaining and memorable, THEATRE OF BLOOD is ripe camp, an excellent film, and a lasting tribute to the career of one of the most important actors in the genre. - 80
The Observer (UK)
Arguably Price's finest single performance, certainly the one that called on all his varied talents as a comedian, aesthete, mellifluous speaker of verse, old-fashioned barnstormer and exponent of horror, is Douglas Hickox's classic black comedy Theatre of Blood, best of a string of horror pictures he made in Britain. - 80
Paste Magazine
Theatre of Blood is a classic revenge story in the Grand Guignol tradition, following a single mastermind as he hunts down and messily dispatches all who have wronged him in ironic fashion. - 80
Time Out
Comedy horror that really does give Vincent Price a chance to do his stuff, with deliciously absurd results. - 80
The Guardian
Grand Guignol with nobs on: Vincent Price hams epically as bloodlusting luvvie Edward Lionheart, who with wacky daughter Diana Rigg starts taking gruesome revenge on the critics. One by one he dispatches them in macabre variations on great Shakespearean death scenes. [05 May 2007, p.53] - 75
Chicago Reader
Gory, imaginative, wildly melodramatic—good fun.
