History Film / TheatreOfBlood

** Creator/VincentPrice was a talented chef in real life, making his performance as Lionheart playing the role of a fake chef all the more amusing.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The vagrant henchmen [[NotWhatISignedUpFor did not expect for Devlin to set fire to their hideout]], prompting them to bash his daughter to death and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere make a run for it]].

** Lionheart also uses a French instructor when acting as a masked fencer in Devlin's gynm.

* Edwin's disguises don't disguise Price's distinctive face, either.

* {{Jerkass}}: Each and every one of the critics, who mock Lionheart and his daughter whilst they are in the room, proceed to mock Lionheart's death, and really don't seem to care much for each other. When the first critic is murdered, one of them remarks that they've finally a headline, not a byline. Even Devlin, largely the OnlySaneMan of the critics, refuses to admit to Lionheart's genius when his life depends on it, and openly mocks Lionheart when he [[spoiler: dies for real]].

* Lionheart would have likely blinded or killed Devlin anyway, once Devlin gave him the award.

* HonorBeforeReason: Devlin has a choice between a horrible death and granting Lionheart a Critic's Award that wouldn't be considered legitimate by anyone. He still won't do it because Lionheart just plain doesn't deserve it.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In the flashback, Edwin says this when Edwina tells him not to give his critics the satisfaction of seeing him humiliated.

* OffWithHisHead: Done to a drugged, sleeping critic... all while Lionheart was dressed as a surgeon.

* SoundtrackDissonance: A lovely, calming theme plays while Lionheart and his main flunky surgically remove one critic's head.

* DirtyOldMan: Trevor Dickman is there, eyeing woman and inappropriately touching the young actress several times.

** Creator/VincentPrice was a talented chef in real life, making his performance as Lionheart playing the role a fake chef all the more amusing.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Lionheart. Not exactly a ''small name'' though.

* SamusIsAGirl: Lionheart's lead henchman the British accented guy with the hippie glasses, afro, and beard turns out to be his daughter Edwina (Diana Rigg).

* SamusIsAGirl: Lionheart's lead henchman the British accented guy with the hippie glases, afro, and beard turns out to be his daughter Edwina (Diana Rigg).

* ClimbingClimax: When Lionheart climbs up to the top of a burning building to recite a part from ''Theatre/KingLear''.

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Lionheart falls through a burning roof in the finale, his body not seen.]]

* DyingMomentOfAwesome:

* ElectricTorture: To death, mimicking Joan of Arc's elimination in ''Theatre/HenryVIPart1''.

* HighVoltageDeath: Miss Moon is electrocuted underneath a hairdryer by Lionheart posing as a hairdresser, sort of parodying the death (by being burned at the stake) of UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc in ''Theatre/HenryVIPart1''.

* HighVoltageDeath: Miss Moon is electrocuted underneath a hairdryer by Lionheart posing as a hairdresser.

''Theatre of Blood'' is a 1973 British [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror comedic horror]] 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, Arthur Lowe, Robert Morley, Dennis Price, Creator/EricSykes and Diana Dors, to name just a few.

* MasterOfDisguise: Lionheart and the Stage Manager. Every victim is fooled unless Lionheart shows up as himself to them.