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* ForceFeeding: Mr. Merridew is forcibly fed until he dies of suffocation... [[EatTheDog with pieces of his beloved poodles.]]
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* ForceFeeding: Mr. Merridew is forcibly fed until he dies of suffocation... [[EatTheDog with pieces of his beloved poodles.]]
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* DramaticUnmask: Used in the opening. When Maxwell is lying on the ground dying, one of the constables removes his helmet... and part of his facial features, revealing Edward Lionhart.
* DramaticUnmask: Used in the opening. When Maxwell is lying on the ground dying, one of the constables removes his helmet... and part of his facial features, revealing Edward Lionheart.
* FaintInShock: The Sprouts' maid screams and faints when she sees Sprout is dead. Not even decapitated, just dead.
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* FaintInShock: The Sprouts' maid screams and faints when she sees Sprout is dead. Not even decapitated, just dead.
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* DramaticUnmask: Used in the opening. When Maxwell is lying on the ground dying, one of the constables removes his helmet... and part of his facial features, revealing Edward Lionhart.
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* HoneyTrap: The Stage Manager pretends to be a young actress to lure Dickman into a trap.
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%%* MistakenForCheating: Poor Maisie Psaltry.
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* {{Flashback}}: When Devlin realizes that the deaths correspond with Lionheart's most recent Shakespeare run, the scene changes to the day the award was given out, during which Lionheart took the award given to another actor and then jumped to his [[BungledSuicide death]].
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* {{Flashback}}: When Devlin realizes that the deaths correspond with Lionheart's most recent Shakespeare run, the scene changes to the day the award was given out, given, during which Lionheart took the award given to another actor and then jumped to his [[BungledSuicide death]].
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* PoliceAreUseless: The finest officers of the Met repeatedly fail to stop a crazed actor and his homeless flunkies killing all but one of their targets. When they try to do a stakeout, their entire unit scurries off after one guy, allowing Lionheart and his people to break into Merridew's house, then kill and cook his dogs and set up the props of a fake TV show.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The finest officers of the Met repeatedly fail to stop a crazed actor and his homeless flunkies killing all but one of their targets. When they try to do a stakeout, their entire unit scurries off after one guy, allowing Lionheart and his people to break into Merridew's house, then kill and cook his dogs and set up the props of a fake TV show. In Larding's case, the cop protecting him drives off, having grown bored with waiting for him at the wine tasting.
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* DecapitationPresentation: Lionheart sends Sprout's head to Devlin, stuck atop a milk bottle.
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* TheDragon: The 'Stage Manager' is Lionheart's primary assistant in the murders, marshaling Lionheart's followers and even committing some of the murderes personally.
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* TheDragon: The 'Stage Manager' is Lionheart's primary assistant in the murders, marshaling Lionheart's followers and even committing some of the murderes murders personally.
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* FaintInShock: The Sprouts' maid screams and faints when she sees Sprout is dead. Not even decapitated, just dead.
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* {{Flashback}}: When Devlin realizes that the deaths correspond with Lionheart's most recent Shakespeare run, the scene changes to the day the award was given out, during which Lionheart took the award given to another actor and then jumped to his [[BungledSuicide death]].
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* TheKeyIsBehindTheLock: Lionheart infiltrates a house by being moved there in a box with the keys, then opens a small hatch and unlocks the chest.
* MatchCut: When Lionheart is posing with a large trunk, the scene fades to black... and when the scene lights again, the trunk is sitting in the next victim's house.
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* TheOphelia: ''Sort'' of, in that Lionheart's daughter is pretty scarred from the supposed death of her father. [[spoiler: Or, at least, appears to be.]]
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* TheOphelia: ''Sort'' of, in that Lionheart's daughter is pretty scarred from the supposed death of her father. [[spoiler: Or, at least, appears to be.]]]] She even dresses like Ophelia for a scene.
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* PunkInTheTrunk: A policeman tries to follow Lionheart by hiding in the trunk of his car. Lionheart just parks the car on a train track and walks off. DeathByTransceiver ensues.
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* PunkInTheTrunk: PunkInTheTrunk:
** Lionheart hides in a large trunk to infiltrate Sprout's house.
** A policeman tries to follow Lionheart by hiding in the trunk of his car. Lionheart just parks the car on a train track and walks off. DeathByTransceiver ensues.
** Lionheart hides in a large trunk to infiltrate Sprout's house.
** A policeman tries to follow Lionheart by hiding in the trunk of his car. Lionheart just parks the car on a train track and walks off. DeathByTransceiver ensues.
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* GraveMarkingScene: Edwina is shown laying flowers at Lionheart's grave during Maxwell's funeral.
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* VillainProtagonist: Lionheart.
* VillainOpeningScene: The first scene has Maxwell being led to a bunch of rowdy vagrants who subsequently stab and beat him while the cops look on. One of the cops removes his helmet and reveals himself to be Lionheart.
* VillainProtagonist: Lionheart.
* VillainProtagonist: Lionheart.
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* WickedCultured: Lionheart, of course.
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* WickedCultured: Lionheart, of course. His serial killings deliberately mirror Shakespeare.
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* LuredIntoATrap: Snipe. The Stage Manager tells him that Lionheart is alive and about to make a comeback. Snipe goes to visit the theatre and is subsequently attacked and killed.
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** Snipe is a CausticCritic.
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** Snipe is a CausticCritic. His first name is Hector, which mirrors his fate (ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice and [[WhatADrag dragged by a horse]]).
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* CantTakeCriticism: Lionheart is an actor who kills the critics who gave him bad reviews, each murder in the theme of a Shakespeare play he was in which the reviewer panned.
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* CantTakeCriticism: Lionheart is an actor who kills the critics who gave him bad reviews, each murder in the theme of a Shakespeare play he was in which the reviewer panned. There's also the fact that he attempted to kill himself when denied an award.
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* TheDragon: The 'Stage Manager'.
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* TheDragon: The 'Stage Manager'.Manager' is Lionheart's primary assistant in the murders, marshaling Lionheart's followers and even committing some of the murderes personally.
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** Lionheart would have likely blinded or killed Devlin anyway, once Devlin gave him the award.
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** Lionheart would have likely blinded or killed Devlin anyway, [[MortonsFork anyway]], once Devlin gave him the award.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Lionheart and the Stage Manager pose as constables to lure Maxwell into the ambush at the squat.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: In the opening, Lionheart and the Stage Manager pose as constables to lure Maxwell into the ambush at the squat.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: During the scene in the hair salon, Coral Browne is visibly corpsing (pun intended) while Vincent/Lionheart hams it up at her.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: During the scene in the hair salon, Coral Browne is visibly corpsing (pun intended) while Vincent/Lionheart hams it up at her.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: During the scene in the hair salon, Coral Browne is visibly corpsing (pun intended) while Vincent/Lionheart hams it up at her.
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''Theatre of Blood'' is a 1973 British HorrorComedy film directed by Douglas Hickox and starring Creator/VincentPrice, who regarded it as one of his personal favorites. Also in the cast are Creator/DianaRigg and [[AllStarCast an impressive coterie]] of British character actors, including Creator/IanHendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Jack Hawkins, Michael Hordern, Creator/ArthurLowe, Creator/RobertMorley, Dennis Price, Creator/EricSykes, Creator/DianaDors and Creator/MadelineSmith, to name just a few.
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''Theatre of Blood'' is a 1973 British HorrorComedy film directed by Douglas Hickox and starring Creator/VincentPrice, who regarded it as one of his personal favorites. Also in the cast are Creator/DianaRigg and [[AllStarCast an impressive coterie]] of British character actors, including Creator/IanHendry, Harry Andrews, Creator/MichaelHordern, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Jack Hawkins, Michael Hordern, Creator/HarryAndrews, Creator/ArthurLowe, Creator/RobertMorley, Dennis Price, Creator/EricSykes, Creator/DianaDors and Creator/MadelineSmith, to name just a few.
