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PLENTY OF BLOODY MUTTON TO CHEW ON!”
– Time Out New York. Click here to read entire review

theater of blood scream of fear!
Starring Vincent Price

(1973, Douglas Hickox) London theatre critics are dropping like flies: one hacked to death, another speared, a third beheaded — maybe Vincent Price’s Edward Lionheart, self-proclaimed greatest of all actors, didn’t really die after his leap into the Thames with the award denied him by the Critics’ Circle — yet again! But his still-bitter daughter Diana Rigg (at her loveliest) claims ignorance, and Inspector Milo O’Shea remains baffled as Jack Hawkins, Dennis Price, Coral Browne, Robert Morley, and other Brit acting legends come to horrifically Shakespearean fates — but there’s King Lear still to come. The apotheosis of Price (“at his most richly extravagant.” – David Thomson) in a tour de force, hilarious, powerful — sometimes simultaneously — and ultimately moving.
2:35, 6:10, 9:45
AN MGM RELEASE

(1961, Seth Holt) Wheelchair-bound Susan Strasberg arrives on the Côte d’Azur for a first meeting with stepmom Ann Todd and a reunion after a decade with her estranged dad, only to find him away on business. So what’s his corpse doing in the summerhouse? The ever-so-helpful family doctor has a sedative for those hallucinations — but wait a minute, he’s Christopher Lee! Touted as Britain’s answer to Psycho, it was actually written much earlier (by Hammer horror specialist Jimmy Sangster, in a deliberate change of pace) and more reminiscent of Clouzot’s Diabolique — but with special twists of its own. Shot in stunning b&w by the great Douglas Slocombe (later DP of the first three Indiana Jones adventures).
1:00, 4:35, 8:10
A SONY PICTURES REPERTORY RELEASE

 

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“Really gives Price a chance to do his stuff, with deliciously absurd results.”
– Time Out (London)

“DELICIOUSLY CAMPY! A goofily highbrow splatterfest!”
 – Henry Stewart, The L Magazine
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“Price's merciless antics strike a gleeful chord!”
– Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

“Price's characteristically haughty over-the-top demeanor and director Hickox's knack for inventive staging keep the murders consistently entertaining and even a bit creepy.”
– amNewYork

“Price rips through the role’s many masks with the élan of Olivier in Sleuth.”
– SLANT

“Gives Price full reign to his particularly gothic style of acting.... The gore is suitably intense and includes a nicely irreverent scene for English dog lovers.”
– Phil Hardy

“A SUPERB BIT OF HAMMER HYSTERIA! Strasberg’s doe-eyed dedication to her role and Douglas Slocombe’s brilliant black-and-white cinematography counterbalance the film’s increasingly ridiculous plot turns, which nonetheless have a crude, jaw-dropper effectiveness. keep in mind that nothing in this spine-tingler is as it seems!”
 – Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

“Almost ready for the opera house, with all of its surprises, coincidences, and mistaken identities—while, visually, it's a descendant of Welles and Clouzot. It's an eerie and efficient guessing game.”
– Henry Stewart, The L Magazine

“Holt’s canny direction expertly builds up the mood of incipient insanity.”
– Phil Hardy

“The story has more twists than a pretzel, and they're all just as delicious.”
 Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid