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Blood Theatre (1984)

Blood Theatre poster
Directed by
Rick Sloane
Genre
comedy horror, slasher film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 15m
Rated
R
Rating
3.7 of 10 from 30 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A group of young people working at a movie theater are killed one by one in strange and over-the-top ways. The killer uses things like a popcorn machine and a film projector as weapons.

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What happens

Blood Theatre (also known as Movie House Massacre) is a 1984 American independent slasher-horror comedy film directed by Rick Sloane and starring Mary Woronov, Jonathan Blakely, Jenny Cunningham, and Joanna Foxx. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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