Theatre of Blood

A Shakespearean actor becomes enraged after losing a prominent acting award and decides to seek revenge on the critics responsible, and he does so using the works of the Bard as a guide, basing his killings on violent scenes from Shakespearean plays., An entertaining black comedy, with a tongue-in-cheek sensibility, about the killing of eight top British theatre critics in a particularly hideous way. Each death parodies the demise of a character in a separate Shakespeare play, and the finger points at ham Shakespearian actor Edward Lionhart. But baffled police cannot comprehend the situation, for he committed suicide years ago., Vincent Price is a crazed Shakespearean actor who adds murder to his repertoire when he takes gruesome revenge on the critics who slighted him.