Technically, it wasn't the last movie I watched but yesterday I dug out my DVD of Theatre Of Blood. It's case has been missing for months and I've feared playing it thinking that at any moment it'd just break down, but other than a little dust that I wiped off it was perfectly fine.
It's upon rewatching it that I realised how much genuine British talent is in this film (Diana Rigg, Arthur Lowe, Michael Horden). It completely passed me by that Jack Hawkins plays one of the critics (dubbed by Charles Grey, another plus!). To say that the film's essentially Dr. Phibes with a different title and a slightly different concept, It's a great film. Vincent Price at his absolute best
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