FILM 1254: THEATRE OF
BLOOD
TRIVIA: Considered by its star Vincent Price to be his
personal favorite of all his films.
Lionheart's tomb is an actual
monument in Kensal Green Cemetery, London. It belongs to the Sievier family,
and shows the sculpted figures of a seated man, one hand placed on the head a
woman kneeling in adoration, while the other holds the Bible, its pages opened
to a passage in the Book of Luke. This monument was altered for the film by
plaster masks of Price and Rigg substituting for the statue's real ones, the
Bible became a volume of Shakespeare and there is a suitable engraving at the
front with Lionheart's name and dates.
Lionheart's theatre hideout was the
Putney Hippodrome, built in 1906. It had been boarded up for fourteen years
when it was chosen as a location for this film.
This film was shot entirely on
locations in and around London. No scenes were shot in a studio.
