Theater Of Blood is an old-style horror flick starring the legendary late Vincent Price and co-stars Diana Rigg (who's perhaps best known for her role in the classic TV show The Avengers and in being in a James Bond flick). In this film, Vincent plays a Shakespearean actor who gets routinely harshly criticized for being a "bad" actor. Finally, all the negative reviews causes him to try to attempt suicide by jumping out a window. When he falls down and not only lives but gets confronted by a gang of homeless ruffians, he decides that instead of trying to off himself, he would get even with the aid of said homeless ruffians and his devoted daughter played by Rigg. And get even he does in the most creative ways. My favorite is when he plays the "gay" hairdresser of one of his female critics, complete with big-ass seventies-style Afro wig (this film came out in the early-seventies, in case you didn't already know). He introduces himself to said female critic with a big shit-eating grin on his face and says something along the lines of, "Hi, I'm Butch!" And then he . . . well, you'll just have to watch the film, won't you? Theater Of Blood is not like today's "slasher" flicks and doesn't have nowhere near the level of violence that you always tend to see in today's horror flicks, but that's all right. Vincent Price has always shown in his movies that sometimes less is most indeed more! Plus, as you can see, this movie has a cool-ass poster!
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