Theatre Of Blood
- 1973 film
Cult, camp comedy horror. A Shakespearean actor with an inflated ego takes meticulous, murderous revenge on his critics. Stars Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne and more.
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Press clippings
From time to time playwrights, whetting their knife upon their boot, write something about killing dramatic critics. There is the film Theatre Of Blood, which occasionally crops up in the small hours, in which Vincent Price murders rather a lot of critics. In Simon Gray's Old Flames (BBC2) the names of five theatre critics are stolen for characters who are in gaol or, in the case of Michael Billington, in "A Turkish hell-hole".
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 15th January 1990