Blood Theatre
2.6 /10 1 Votes
Director Rick Sloane Genre Slasher Duration Country USA | 2.4/10 IMDb Cinematography Bill Fishman Writer Rick Sloane Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Mary Woronov Release date 1984 Similar movies Related Rick Sloane movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blood Theater (a.k.a. Movie House Massacre) is an Independent Film Slasher/Horror Comedy. It was the first feature film by director Rick Sloane.
The film includes many bizarre movie theater related deaths, such as being fried inside a popcorn machine, stabbed in the ticket booth, electrocuted by a film projector, decapitated by a projection booth partition, stabbed while a movie is playing on screen, smoke inhalation from burning film and a telephone receiver which breaks apart while a dying girl screams hysterically into it.
The majority of the movie was shot at the historic Beverly Warner Theater in Beverly Hills, which was also a location in the film Xanadu. It was later demolished and the site became a bank building.
All the movies which play at the Spotlite Theater Multiplex in this film, were short films made by Rick Sloane while he attended Los Angeles City College. They include Clown Whores of Hollywood, Chainsaw Chicks, Amputee Hookers and Nightmare Of The Lost Whores.
Reception
Film critic Scott Weinberg panned Blood Theatre, writing "Rare is the film that fails so resoundingly in two separate genres at the exact same time." TV Guide also criticized the movie, calling it "incredibly inept". In 2014 Chiller wrote that the film is considered by some to be one of the worst horror films ever made but stated that "if you appreciate incredibly ‘80s hair and clothes, and the uniquely bizarre, very intentional humor of director Rick Sloane (Hobgoblins; the Vice Academy series), there is much here that will warm your heart."
References
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