{"id":15981,"date":"2023-10-25T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15981"},"modified":"2023-10-25T11:40:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T15:40:43","slug":"theater-of-blood-1973-douglas-hickox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15981","title":{"rendered":"Theater of Blood (1973, Douglas Hickox)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIP <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15295\">Anthony Hickox<\/a> &#8211; on the day he died, I watched a film by his father.  Vincent Price is in disguise as a fake cop, not helping some housing bigwig evict murderous squatters.  Turns out Price is back from the near-grave, having suicided in front of the critics association after losing an acting award, rescued by cartoonish winos and become their king.  Daughter Diana Rigg handles his above-ground affairs while Price contrives new ways to kill his tormentors (beheading in sleep, being fed their own beloved dog on a fake game-show set) in connection with his Shakespeare roles.  They don&#8217;t necessarily deserve to die for thinking Price is a cheesy actor, but for other reasons, they mostly do.  In fact it&#8217;s annoying that the boring critic Ian Hendry gets to survive, but I can&#8217;t stay mad at a movie that stages a swordfight on trampolines.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/theaterblood1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>I forget which Shakespeare play this was:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/theaterblood2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIP Anthony Hickox &#8211; on the day he died, I watched a film by his father. Vincent Price is in disguise as a fake cop, not helping some housing bigwig evict murderous squatters. Turns out Price is back from the near-grave, having suicided in front of the critics association after losing an acting award, rescued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,3177,54,144,524,607,886],"class_list":["post-15981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-douglas-hickox","tag-horror","tag-revenge","tag-shakespeare","tag-suicide","tag-vincent-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16006,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981\/revisions\/16006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}