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'''''Blood Theater''''' (a.k.a. '''''Movie House Massacre''''') is an [[Independent Film]] [[slasher film|Slasher]]/[[Horror Comedy]]. It was the first feature film by director [[Rick Sloane]].
'''''Blood Theater''''' (a.k.a. '''''Movie House Massacre''''') is an [[Independent Film]] [[slasher 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, face removed by an escalator, decapitated by a projection booth partition, stabbed while a movie is playing on screen, electrocuted in a fountain, smoke inhalation from burning film and a telephone receiver which breaks apart while a dying girl screams hysterically into it.
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 Warner's Beverly Hills Theater at 9404 Wilshire Blvd in Beverly Hills. It was demolished in 1989 and the site became a parking lot.
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 (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''.
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''.

==Plot==
A group of teenagers, including Ellen and Danny, sneak into a [[movie theater]] after hours. A masked killer stalks them and then begins killing them. When Jane, Larry and Kyle have a [[threesome]] in the bathroom, he beats Kyle to death with a [[tap (valve)|faucet]], beheads Larry by slamming his neck into the rim of a metal toilet, and drowns Jane in the sink. Sue goes to look for Larry, her boyfriend, and is violently stabbed by the killer. She escapes and reaches a phone, but the phone's receiver falls apart for seemingly no reason and she dies. Ellen and Danny discover the bodies of their friends before they too are attacked. Danny manages to incapacitate the killer with a movie theater seat before they flee the theater. Ellen and Danny identify their killer as Dean, a local teenager who was dating June, Ellen's twin sister.

Three months later, another eleven teenagers, consisting of Angi, Bethanie, Bobby, Craig, Darryl, Hank, Lisa, Melanie, Zach, and Zariah, as well as June, sneak into the theater to memorialize Kyle, Larry, Jane and Sue. They enter a theater and start watching a film, but Zariah sits away from the others because she is bitter after her breakup with Craig. Meanwhile, Danny drops Ellen off at her house after a date. Late at night, Ellen looks out her bedroom window and sees that Danny's car is still in her driveway. She goes outside and finds the dead body of Danny in his car. Before she can react, she too is killed.

During the movie, Bobby and Angi sneak off to have sex. A man wearing a mask, seemingly the same one from the previous murders, stalks them and eventually attacks them. He [[electrocution|electrocutes]] Bobby with a [[movie projector|film projector]] and locks Angi in a closet with the projector and Bobby's corpse. Angi dies from [[smoke inhalation]] caused by the burning film in the broken projector. The killer then stabs Zariah to death inside the theater, unbeknownst to the others. When the film suddenly stops halfway through, Hank and Melanie go to investigate. While they are in the [[projection booth]], the killer attacks them and decapitates Hank with the booth's [[folding screen|partition]]. Melanie screams and desperately bangs on the window of the booth. She manages to get her friends' attention, but all they are able to do is watch in horror as the killer strangles her with [[filmstrip]]s.

Zach and Lisa panic and lock June, Craig, Darryl and Bethanie in the theater as bait for the killer, but he knocks them both unconscious. He then boils Zach alive in the snack bar's [[popcorn maker|popcorn machine]] and burns off Lisa's flesh with [[liquid nitrogen]]. Meanwhile, the other four escape the theater and run to the front, finding Zach and Lisa's bodies. They try to leave, but find that all the doors and windows have been blocked. Bethanie crawls through the [[ventilation (architecture)|air vents]] to get into the [[box office|ticket booth]] to use the computer to call for help, but the killer is waiting there and stabs Bethanie to death while the other three watch. June, Craig and Darryl run to the [[escalator]]s, finding that they have been supercharged by the killer. The killer then appears and shoves Craig's head into the escalator, scraping his face off.

June and Darryl flee up the stairs and run to the office of Fred, the owner of the theater. When they arrive, they find blood and weapons inside. The killer then shows up and is revealed as Fred. June asks him why he is committing the murders, and he replies that he was tired of teenagers sneaking in after hours and wrecking the theater. June and Darryl flee the office and jump off a balcony, landing in a fountain. Fred, however, cuts loose a [[light fixture]], which falls into the fountain. June escapes in time, but Darryl is electrocuted.

June lures Fred to the projection booth, but locks him out. While Fred slowly breaks down the partition, June attaches a film reel to the projector and turns it on. When Fred breaks through the partition, June and Fred battle. June eventually forces Fred's head onto the spinning reel, splitting his forehead. June begins leaving, but Fred rises and attacks her. However, June dives out of the way, and Fred falls through the window and is impaled on a theater seat. June uses Fred's keys to leave the theater and calls the police.

It is determined that Fred killed Kyle, Larry, Jane, Sue, Danny and Ellen in addition to June's friends. Dean is released from the mental institution, and he and June get back together.

In a [[post-credits scene]], June and Dean are watching a movie in their [[home cinema|home theater]]. June hallucinates that it is an actual theater while Dean is making dinner, and someone wearing Fred's mask chops his head off with a [[cleaver|meat cleaver]]. June walks into the kitchen and finds Dean's severed head in the oven. The killer then appears and boils June's face off. However, it is then revealed that it was just a dream, and June is comforted by Dean.


==Cast==
==Cast==
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! Actor / Actress
! Actor / Actress
! Character
! Character
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| [[Mary Woronov]]
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| Miss Blackwell
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| Jenny Cunningham
| Jenny Cunningham
| June / Ellen
| Jennifer / Ellen
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| Jonathan Blakely
| Jonathan Blakely
| Original Owner
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| Fred Blackwell
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|-
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| [[Mary Woronov]]
| Caroline Blackwell
|-
|-
| Andrew Cofrin
| Andrew Cofrin
| Darryl
| Adrian
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|-
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| Rob-Roy Fletcher
| Craig
|-
|-
| Joanna Foxx
| Joanna Foxx
| Selena
| Bethanie
|-
|-
| Stephanie Dillard
| Stephanie Dillard
| Lisa
| Darcy
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|-
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| Rob-Roy Fletcher
| Dean Murdock
|-
|-
| Daniel Schafer
| Daniel Schafer
| Zach
| Malcolm
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|-
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| David Millbern
| Original Owner (Younger)
|-
|-
| Cynthia Hartline
| Cynthia Hartline
| Melanie
| Jamie Hart
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|-
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| David Millbern
| Hank
|-
|-
| Lisa Lindsley
| Lisa Lindsley
| Angi
| Lisa
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|-
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| Carl Bressler
| Bobby
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|-
| Brett Sagle
| Dean
|-
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| Bruce Nangle
| Danny
|-
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| Joni Barnes
| Joni Barnes
| Sue
| Dee-Dee
|-
|-
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| Carl Bressler
| Holly Baker
| Jane
| Pimp
|-
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| Troy Martin
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| Barrie Metz
| Pie Victim
| Larry
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| Jeffrey Shaker
| Kyle
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| Tony Goldman
| Tony Goldman
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| Paul Schubin
| Paul Schubin
| Police Officer
| Police Officer
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|-
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| Bruce Nangle
| Ellen's Lover
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| Barrie Metz
| Multiplex Employee
|}
|}



==Reception==
==Reception==

Revision as of 20:13, 19 May 2017

Blood Theater/Movie House Massacre/Blood-O-Rama/The Movie House Massacre
Directed byRick Sloane
Written byRick Sloane
Produced byRick Sloane
StarringMary Woronov, Johnathon Blakely, Jenny Cunningham, Joanna Foxx
CinematographyBill Fishman
Edited byRick Sloane
Music byRick Sloane
Distributed byMoore Video/Retromedia Entertainment/Active Home Video
Release date
1984
Running time
75 Min
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish

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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