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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792861355
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0792861353
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Running Time: 195 minutes
Sales Rank: 10219
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: April 05, 1973
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Theater of BloodVincent Price delivers a thrilling tour-de-force (Variety) performance as a small-time actor plotting big-time revenge in inventively Shakespearean ways! Boasting a topnotch supporting cast this dramatically delicious concoction (New York) delivers an equal mixture of horror comedy and Shakepeare [that ll] please just about everyone critics included (Boxoffice) and proves that all the world really is a stage for MURDER!Running Time 91 MinMadhouseMasters of macabre Vincent Price Peter Cushing and Robert Quarry give performances to die for in this diverting little chiller (Boxoffice)! When horror star Paul Toombes fianc e is brutally killed he loses more than this job he loses his mind. But twelve years later when he returns to TV only to discover a fresh batch of corpses Paul finally begins to understand that melodrama can be murder on your career!Running Time 104 MinSystem Requirements: Running Time 195 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR UPC: 027616910868 Manufacturer No: 1006945
Amazon.com:
If your sense of humor is even moderately twisted, you'll savor Theatre of Blood, a tasty course of well-cooked ham. Directed with delectable British wit by Douglas Hickox, the comedy is decidedly dark when Vincent Price--as effete has-been thespian Richard Lionheart--wreaks poetic justice upon the snobby critics who panned his performances and drove him to a failed attempt at suicide. Reciting his poor reviews and staging murders inspired by Shakespearean tragedies, the actor and his Dickensian coterie of accomplices (including Diane Rigg, sexy as ever) dispatch their victims with shocking ingenuity, and by the time Lionheart reenacts Titus Andronicus by gorging one dog-loving critic (the hilariously poofy Robert Morley) on toy-poodle stew, Theatre of Blood reaches giddy heights of outrageous vengeance. It's all in good fun, of course, and the film's esteemed British cast plays it to the hilt, none better than Price in one of his most entertaining roles. --Jeff Shannon
Madhouse doesn't skimp on the horror-movie trimmings: Vincent Price in his campy post-Poe era, a crazy woman kept in the basement, the murder of an ex-porn star, and… Peter Cushing. All of which turns out to be barely tolerable as drive-in fodder, for this is the least of Price's run of revenge movies in the early Seventies. He plays an actor identified with his horror-movie roles (famed for playing 'Dr. Death'), who attempts a comeback after a long layoff. Alas, his instability affects the production--or something does, not that you'll likely care about the explanation. Cushing has a collection of Price's old AIP movies to sit around and watch, and Adrienne Corri is the lady in the basement. Ham-handedly directed and confusingly plotted, this one's for diehard Price fans only. And their reward comes at the end, when the actor can be heard crooning 'When Day Is Done' over the end credits. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Horror at its best!
A cracking boxset if you like your horror traditional, not that frightening and just a little camp. The story which runs through each film is not that different, but there are some serious actors in both whose performances can not be over looked. Classic. Well worth an evening's watch.
Rating:  - SIT BACK, RELAX AND ENJOY THE SINISTER!
MADHOUSE IS AN ENJOYABLE HORROR-MYSTERY FILM THAT IS AN ODE TO THE LIKES OF PETER CUSHING AND VINCENT PRICE. I WAS SURPRISED BY THE EXCELLENT CAST, WELL WRITTEN SCRIPT, PHOTOGRAPHY, DIRECTION AND PACING OF THIS STORY. EVEN THE MUSIC WAS GREAT AND ATMOSPHERIC. REALLY WORTH WATCHING.
THEATER OF BLOOD IS ALSO A GOOD HORROR-MYSTERY FILM THAT IS VERY ENTERTAINING.YOU FIND YOURSELF ROOTING FOR VINCENT PRICE, EVEN THOUGH HE PLAYS THE BAD GUY. OVERALL, THESE TWO FILMS WERE CAREFULLY CRAFTED ... Read More
Rating: - Madhouse is Funhouse!
Madhouse is one of Vincent Price's forgotten
films. I think it's one of his best and a true
horror classic. Well written and directed and
has Peter Cushing playing his writing partner
for Dr.Death series as well as his friend who
brings him out of retirement after his fiance
is murdered years ago. Everyone suspects Price
and when the murders start again the finger
points to him but a surprise ending makes this
a winner. Also Theatre of Blood is ... Read More
Rating: - Movie
The classic movies are some of the best! I really enjoy any work by Vincent Price!
Rating: - Perfect Pair of Movies
I fell in love with Theater of Blood a number of years ago. I love the fact that it is a good horror movie with some goofy parts that make it even creepier. I think that Vincent Price is great and works so perfectly with Diana Rigg. It reminds me a bit of Dr. Phibes, but I find this movie to be more entertaining because the main character is rather eccentric. Also, I like hearing Vincent doing Shakespeare.
I had not seen Madhouse before getting this DVD. WOW!! Not only does it include clips ... Read More
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