Theatre of Blood (1973 film)
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Theatre of Blood (1973 film) is a 1973 British horror-comedy film in which Vincent Price plays a vengeful Shakespearean actor who murders critics using theatrically inspired methods.
All labels observed (1)
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| Theatre of Blood (1973 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5500319 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theatre of Blood (1973 film) Context triple: [Vincent Price, notableWork, Theatre of Blood (1973 film)]
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Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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Black Sunday
Black Sunday is a 1977 American thriller film about a terrorist plot to attack the Super Bowl, directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Thomas Harris's novel of the same name.
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C.
Lady of Terror
Lady of Terror is an epithet of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet, highlighting her fearsome power as a lioness deity of war, destruction, and divine retribution.
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D.
The Seventh Victim
The Seventh Victim is a 1943 psychological horror film produced by Val Lewton that follows a young woman uncovering a sinister Satanic cult while searching for her missing sister in New York City.
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E.
Dracula (1979 film)
Dracula (1979 film) is a gothic horror movie adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel, best known for Frank Langella’s charismatic and romantic portrayal of Count Dracula.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theatre of Blood (1973 film) Target entity description: Theatre of Blood (1973 film) is a 1973 British horror-comedy film in which Vincent Price plays a vengeful Shakespearean actor who murders critics using theatrically inspired methods.
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A.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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B.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday is a 1977 American thriller film about a terrorist plot to attack the Super Bowl, directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Thomas Harris's novel of the same name.
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C.
Lady of Terror
Lady of Terror is an epithet of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet, highlighting her fearsome power as a lioness deity of war, destruction, and divine retribution.
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D.
The Seventh Victim
The Seventh Victim is a 1943 psychological horror film produced by Val Lewton that follows a young woman uncovering a sinister Satanic cult while searching for her missing sister in New York City.
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E.
Dracula (1979 film)
Dracula (1979 film) is a gothic horror movie adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel, best known for Frank Langella’s charismatic and romantic portrayal of Count Dracula.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British horror-comedy film
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film ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Theatre of Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | works of William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Wolfgang Suschitzky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Douglas Hickox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Malcolm Cooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1970s British cinema ⓘ |
| featuresWorkOf | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
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comedy ⓘ horror ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
criticism of critics
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revenge ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Edward Lionheart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Michael J. Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | Vincent Price’s performance as a vengeful actor ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A vengeful Shakespearean actor murders theatre critics using methods inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. ⓘ |
| producer |
John Kohn
NERFINISHED
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Louis M. Heyward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 104 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Anthony Greville-Bell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| starring |
Arthur Lowe
NERFINISHED
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Coral Browne NERFINISHED ⓘ Dennis Price NERFINISHED ⓘ Diana Rigg NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Sykes NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Andrews NERFINISHED ⓘ Ian Hendry NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Hawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Madeline Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Hordern NERFINISHED ⓘ Milo O’Shea NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Coote NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincent Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Theatre of Blood (1973 film) Description of subject: Theatre of Blood (1973 film) is a 1973 British horror-comedy film in which Vincent Price plays a vengeful Shakespearean actor who murders critics using theatrically inspired methods.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.