YMMV / Theatre of Blood

• Genius Bonus: The various performances are even more hilariously appropriate if one knows the plays in question.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Lionheart manipulates a critic into murdering his wife. He also kills his future wife in this.
• Magnificent Bastard: Edward Lionheart, driven to near-suicide by a group of callous theatre critics, plots a gruesome revenge. Surfacing years later, Lionheart begins dispatching his enemies in ways inspired by the plays of William Shakespeare, while manipulating the others to proceed exactly how he wants them for best access and give himself more fame in the process of his vengeance. Lionheart manipulates one into murder to send him to prison, using a group of derelicts to murder another and constantly runs rings around law enforcement and his enemies, all while remaining as charismatic and larger than life as ever.
• Narm: Edwina being killed, or at least knocked out cold, by being lightly tapped on the head with the award. Was that really the best shot they could come up with? ^note  At least the stage play tries to fix this by having her accidentally stabbed to death just as she was about to kill Devlin.
• Retroactive Recognition: Mrs. Sprout is played by Joan Hickson, who would later be best known for playing Miss Marple in the 1980s series.
• Spiritual Adaptation:
  • The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Theatre of Blood both have Vincent Price playing the hammy Theme Serial Killer Villain Protagonist and delivering poetic kills on a given group of people (who all have the same profession) for revenge.
  • The plot wouldn't be out of place at all in The Avengers. Speaking of which, it also starred Diana Rigg and Ian Hendry.
• Values Dissonance: Some of the gay jokes are a little awkward today.

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