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* BellyDancer: The cut to the party in Davras' home opens with a close up of the navel of a belly dancer who is performing.
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The Theatre of Death in Paris specializes in horror presentations. A police surgeon finds himself becoming involved in the place through his attraction to one of the performers. When bloodless bodies start showing up all over town, he realizes there could be links with the theatre.

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The Theatre of Death in Paris specializes in [[CircusOfFear horror presentations.presentations]]. A police surgeon finds himself becoming involved in the place through his attraction to one of the performers. When bloodless bodies start showing up all over town, he realizes there could be links with the theatre.
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* TarotTroubles: Colette does a reading for Nicole at Davras' party. The first three card are fairly standard, but the last two are The Tower (or The Lightning Struck Tower as Colette calls it) and Death. Colette interprets these as meaning violence and death.

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* TarotTroubles: Colette does a reading for Nicole at Davras' party. The first three card cards are fairly standard, but the last two are The Tower (or The Lightning Struck Tower as Colette calls it) and Death. Colette interprets these as meaning violence and death.

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* DisposableSexWorker: The fifth victim of the killer is a streetwalker, lured into an alley by throwing coins at her feet.



* DisposableSexWorker: The fifth victim of the killer is a streetwalker, lured into an alley by throwing coins at her feet.
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* DisposableSexWorker: The fourth victim of the killer is a streetwalker, lured into an alley by throwing coins at her feet.

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* DisposableSexWorker: The fourth fifth victim of the killer is a streetwalker, lured into an alley by throwing coins at her feet.
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* RedHerring: All of the discussion about the mysterious disappearance of Davras' father. The father turns out to have nothing to do with the case.
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* FromDressToDressing: After having his palm sliced by the killer, Charles hurriedly wraps his handkerchief around his hand as a makeshift bandage.
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* TarotTroubles: Colette does a reading for Nicole at Davras' party. The first three card are fairly standard, but the last two are The Tower (or The Lightning Struck Tower as Colette calls it) and Death. Colette interprets these as meaning violence and death.
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* BookSafe: the killer keeps a knife hidden in a hollow ledger in Davras' library.

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* BookSafe: the The killer keeps a knife hidden in a hollow ledger in Davras' library.



* TrapDoor: The stage in the theatre has a trap door that is use to take a spear thrust during the voodoo sketch to make it look as if the actress has been stabbed.

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* TrapDoor: The stage in the theatre has a trap door that is use used to take a spear thrust during the voodoo sketch to make it look as if the actress has been stabbed.
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* CoatHatMask: The killer conceals their identity by wearing a black cloak, fedora and scarf.
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* PsychicAssistedSuicide: The killer hypnotizes Dani into writing a suicide note confessing to the murders and then into committing suicide. [[spoiler:When she attempts the actual act, she faints.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Charles happens to frequent a restaurant run by a pair of Rumanians who part of the same refugee caravan after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII that included the infant Nicole.

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* ContrivedCoincidence: Charles happens to frequent a restaurant run by a pair of Rumanians who were part of the same refugee caravan after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII that included the infant Nicole.
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* StockingFiller: The DisposableSexWorker is wearing fishnets and a very tight skirt.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Charles happens to frequent a restaurant run by a pair of Rumanians who part of the same refugee caravan after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII that included the infant Nicole.
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* BloodLust: Both Charles and Dr. Schiller believe that the killer suffers from a compulsion, either physical or psychological, to drink blood. They are proved correct.
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* BellyDancer: the cut to the party in Davras' home opens with a close up of the navel of a belly dancer who is performing.
* BookcasePassage; A passage concealed behind a bookcase in Davras' library leads to his secret lair in the attic.

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* BellyDancer: the The cut to the party in Davras' home opens with a close up of the navel of a belly dancer who is performing.
* BookcasePassage; BookcasePassage: A passage concealed behind a bookcase in Davras' library leads to his secret lair in the attic.



* BurnTheWitch: One of the sketches in the theatre involves Dani being burnt at the stake as a witch. For a moment, it looks as is Nicole is intending to burn her for real.
* ChekhovsGun: The TrapDoor in the stage which is used in the voodoo sketch plays a vital rule in the story's resolution.



* DisposableSexWorker: the fourth victim of the killer is a streetwalker.
* HypnoPendulum: Davras hypnotizes Nicole by reflecting light of his ring and moving it slowly back and forth across her eyes.
* OldFashionedRowboatDate: A couple on a romantic outing in a boat discover a body floating in the river.

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* DisposableSexWorker: the The fourth victim of the killer is a streetwalker.
streetwalker, lured into an alley by throwing coins at her feet.
* HypnoPendulum: Davras hypnotizes Nicole by reflecting light of off his ring and moving it slowly back and forth across her eyes.
* OldFashionedRowboatDate: A couple on a romantic outing in a boat discover a body floating in the river. Needless to say, this shatters the mood.



* RightHandCat: Megalomaniacal theatre director has a pert cat named Seraphina whom he regards as 'the perfect lady'.

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* RightHandCat: Megalomaniacal theatre The cruel and demanding director Philippe Darvas only shows affection towards his pet Siamese cat Seraphina.
* TrapDoor: The stage in the theatre
has a pert cat named Seraphina whom he regards trap door that is use to take a spear thrust during the voodoo sketch to make it look as 'the perfect lady'.if the actress has been stabbed.

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''Theatre of Death'' (also known as ''Blood Fiend'') is a 1967 British horror movie directed by Samuel Gallu and starring Creator/ChristopherLee, Leila Goldoni and Creator/JulianGlover.

The Theatre of Death in Paris specializes in horror presentations. A police surgeon finds himself becoming involved in the place through his attraction to one of the performers. When bloodless bodies start showing up all over town, he realizes there could be links with the theatre.

!!''Theatre of Blood'' contains examples of:

* BellyDancer: the cut to the party in Davras' home opens with a close up of the navel of a belly dancer who is performing.
* BookcasePassage; A passage concealed behind a bookcase in Davras' library leads to his secret lair in the attic.
* BookSafe: the killer keeps a knife hidden in a hollow ledger in Davras' library.
* DisposableVagrant: The fourth victim of the killer, and the first murder shown on screen, is a drunken tramp murdered under a bridge in Paris.
* DisposableSexWorker: the fourth victim of the killer is a streetwalker.
* HypnoPendulum: Davras hypnotizes Nicole by reflecting light of his ring and moving it slowly back and forth across her eyes.
* OldFashionedRowboatDate: A couple on a romantic outing in a boat discover a body floating in the river.
* PortraitPaintingPeephole: Davras has a secret passage that allows him to look out through the eyes of his own portrait and study his guests in the library.
* RightHandCat: Megalomaniacal theatre director has a pert cat named Seraphina whom he regards as 'the perfect lady'.

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