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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanSuperbly Vincent Price!
- 90Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasA triumph of stylish, witty Grand Guignol, it allows Price to range richly between humor and pathos as a crazed Shakespearean actor. It's not too much to say that if horror pictures were taken seriously Price would have been a 1973 Oscar contender. [24 Mar 2005, p.E15]
- Wholly entertaining and memorable, THEATRE OF BLOOD is ripe camp, an excellent film, and a lasting tribute to the career of one of the most important actors in the genre.
- Arguably Price's finest single performance, certainly the one that called on all his varied talents as a comedian, aesthete, mellifluous speaker of verse, old-fashioned barnstormer and exponent of horror, is Douglas Hickox's classic black comedy Theatre of Blood, best of a string of horror pictures he made in Britain.
- 80Paste MagazineJim VorelPaste MagazineJim VorelTheatre of Blood is a classic revenge story in the Grand Guignol tradition, following a single mastermind as he hunts down and messily dispatches all who have wronged him in ironic fashion.
- 80Time OutTime OutComedy horror that really does give Vincent Price a chance to do his stuff, with deliciously absurd results.
- 80The GuardianThe GuardianGrand Guignol with nobs on: Vincent Price hams epically as bloodlusting luvvie Edward Lionheart, who with wacky daughter Diana Rigg starts taking gruesome revenge on the critics. One by one he dispatches them in macabre variations on great Shakespearean death scenes. [05 May 2007, p.53]
- Gory, imaginative, wildly melodramatic—good fun.
- 70The New York TimesThe New York TimesDouglas Hickox's wry romp spotlights a vengeful Shakespearean ham (Vincent Price) and his helpful daughter (Diana Rigg). It's gory and funny. [14 Apr 1996, p.6]