Taglines: He gave his critics a bloody and violent taste of their own medicine!
Theater of Blood movie storyline. Edward Kendal Sheridan Lionheart (Vincent Price) is a matinèe favorite Shakespearean actor of the old school, finding difficulty coping with new theater roles, who wreaks revenge on on the theater critics who give their annual Guild’s “Best Actor” award to a new and upcoming actor rather than him.
Incensed by their choice, he does this in the most ingenious and disturbing ways by imitating death scenes taken from his final repertoire of his beloved Bard’s tales. Vincent Price is well supported by Dame Diana Rigg, as his dutiful daughter Edwina, and a bevy of the cream of British character actors, including; Ian Hendry, Sir Michael Hordern, Dennis Price, Robert Morley, and Arthur Lowe.
Theatre of Blood (also known in the U.S. as Theater of Blood) is a 1973 British horror comedy film directed by Douglas Hickox and starring Vincent Price as vengeful actor Edward Lionheart and Diana Rigg as his daughter Edwina. The cast includes distinguished actors Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Jack Hawkins, Ian Hendry, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, Joan Hickson, Robert Morley, Milo O’Shea, Diana Dors and Dennis Price.
Theater of Blood (1973)
Directed by: Douglas Hickox
Starring: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Robert Coote, Michael Hordern, Robert Morle, Coral Browne, Jack Hawkins, Arthur Lowe, Diana Dors, Madeline Smith
Screenplay by: Anthony Greville-Bell
Production Design by: Michael Seymour
Cinematography by: Wolfgang Suschitzky
Film Editing by: Malcolm Cooke
Costume Design by: Michael Baldwin
Set Decoration by: Ann Mollo
Music by: Michael J. Lewis
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: United Artists
Release Date: April 5, 1973
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