Blood Theatre

Blood Theater/Movie House Massacre/Blood-O-Rama/The Movie House Massacre
Directed by Rick Sloane
Produced by Rick Sloane
Written by Rick Sloane
Starring Mary Woronov, Johnathon Blakely, Jenny Cunningham, Joanna Foxx
Music by Rick Sloane
Cinematography Bill Fishman
Edited by Rick Sloane
Distributed by Moore Video/Retromedia Entertainment/Active Home Video
Release dates
 1984
Running time
 75 Min
Country USA
Language English

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.

Cast

Actor / Actress Character
Mary Woronov Miss Blackwell
Jenny Cunningham Jennifer / Ellen
Jonathan Blakely Original Owner
Andrew Cofrin Adrian
Joanna Foxx Selena
Stephanie Dillard Darcy
Rob-Roy Fletcher Dean Murdock
Daniel Schafer Malcolm
David Millbern Original Owner (Younger)
Cynthia Hartline Jamie Hart
Lisa Lindsley Lisa
Joni Barnes Dee-Dee
Carl Bressler Pimp
Troy Martin Pie Victim
Tony Goldman Police Officer
Paul Schubin Police Officer
Bruce Nangle Ellen's Lover
Barrie Metz Multiplex Employee

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."[1] TV Guide also criticized the movie, calling it "incredibly inept".[2] 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."[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Movie House Massacre (Blood Theater)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
  2. ↑ "Movie House Massacre (review)". TV Guide. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
  3. ↑ "13 Haunted Things That Are Not Houses". Chiller. 2014-02-20. Retrieved 2016-05-02.

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