Blood Theater

Blood Theater
VHS artwork under title 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 date
  • 1984 (1984)
Running time
 75 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Blood Theater (also known as Movie House Massacre) is a 1984 American independent slasher-horror comedy film. 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

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

Reception

Film critic Scott Weinberg panned Blood Theater, 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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