Hello Widit,
Thank you for your clarification stating that you would be interested
in my findings.
1. The name the film that begins with a critic meeting a grisly fate at the
hands of knife-wielding vagrants.
It?s Douglas Hickox's 1973 British horror movie "Theatre of Blood"
starring Vincent Price as Edward Lionheart.
2. The name of the play his death echoes.
It?s William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Below you will find online references where you may verify that this
information is correct.
?Vincent Price, in his own favourite film, plays Edward Lionheart, an
actor who has devoted his life to Shakespeare, refusing to appear in
anything else. This has not endeared him to the national newspaper
critics who have spent years ridiculing and belittling him in public.
He thus decides to get his own back in typically baroque style by
slaughtering each of his tormentors in ways derived from Shakespeare
plays. George Maxwell (Hordern) is the first to go, hacked to pieces
by the squatters on his Bermondsey housing development while Price
stands watching, quoting from "Julius Caesar". Appropriately enough,
Maxwell dies on March 23rd.?
DVD Times
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=4101
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IMDb user comments for Theatre of Blood
?. . . but still gruesomely shocking, as in the opening slaughter of
Michael Hordern by knife-slashing tramps?
IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070791/usercomments?start=40
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?Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price), a classically trained Shakespearean
ham actor, is denied a prestigious annual acting award by the London
Theatre Critic's Circle. Intruding on their meeting, he steals the
award, throws himself into the River Thames and is presumed drowned. A
short while after, critics start dying in the manner of famous death
scenes from Shakespeare's plays. George Maxwell (Michael Hordern) is
first; a death of a thousand cuts in a deserted warehouse being his
fate (Julius Caesar).?
Brit Movie
http://www.britmovie.co.uk/genres/horror/filmography/023.html
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?Fans of Price (when he is in his Gothic horror mode) will gobble up
this film with glee. He is very nearly the whole show as a dishonored
actor who decides to exact revenge on the critic's circle who
lambasted his work. He systematically murders each critic in turn,
elaborately utilizing the violent scenes from the Shakespearean plays
in which he was roasted. For example, ala "Julius Caesar", Hordern
(warned by his wife that the date -March 15th- would be dangerous) is
ruthlessly stabbed to death by a mob. Other critics are beheaded,
burned, eviscerated and otherwise bumped off while Price dons an array
of costumes and heavy theatrical makeup.?
IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070791/usercomments?start=20
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?However, some time later, George Maxwell (Michael Hordern), one of
the Critic's Circle, is found dead, stabbed multiple times in a
rundown building in London, occupied by squatters who Maxwell was to
have evicted. Soon after, another of the Critic's Circle, Hector Snipe
(Dennis Price), is also murdered, with the weapon of choice being a
spear this time. His body is dragged behind a horse to Maxwell's
funeral. Where Maxwell's death was relatively straightforward, it is
only with the peculiar death of Snipe - based on Troilus And Cressida
- that the Critic's Circle suspects a pattern. Maxwell's death is
re-examined and is linked to the death of Julius Caesar - stabbed
multiple times on the 15 March, also known as the Ides of March.?
DVD Times
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=5220
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?In 1972, in London, the Shakespearean ham actor Edward Lionheart
(Vincent Price), who is presumed dead, kills each one of the critics
who denied to him the award of Best Actor, accusing him of not being
creative. He uses the plays of Shakespeare to elaborate his revenge
against his detractors and prove they were wrong.?
IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070791/usercomments
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?With Lionheart and his troupe donning different disguises, we see:
a group stabbing a critic to death on the Ides of March (Julius Caesar)
a man stabbed with a spear, his body then tied to a horse and dragged
along the road (Troilus & Cressida)
a beheading (Cymbeline)
a pound of flesh cut out of one unfortunate victim (The Merchant of Venice)
a drowning (Richard III)
a victim of a fencing match (Romeo & Juliet)
a jealous man prodded into killing his wife (Othello)
a man forced to eat his two precious poodles (Titus Andronicus)?
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/supered55/price.html
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I hope this is helpful.
Best regards,
Bobbie7 |
