Theatre of Blood

Year: 1973

Country: UK

Tagline: At your own risk  »

Plot: Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) stars as an actor overlooked for a critics' acting award, despite producing a season of Shakespeare plays. After confronting the Critics' Circle, an attempted suicidal dive into the Thames results in Lionheart being rescued by your typical paraffin/meths/turps swigging tramps. Lionheart then (presumed dead) exacts his grizzly, and quite amusing revenge on the critics who denied him his finest hour.Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart is passionate about his plays, so when being harshly humiliated at a awards ceremony, he was so disappointed that he unsuccessfully commits suicide by diving into the Thames. Two years later, Lionheart attempts to take revenge against the critics that denied his talent.

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