aka Much Ado About Murder .Theatre critics are being killed in a variety of methods inspired by deaths in Shakespeare plays. The police suspect a serial killer, and would think it was Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price), but for the little fact that the ham actor committed suicide some years previously, due to being passed over for an prestigious award, by the self same critics that are now dying. They are in fact right, Lionheart is back. Aided by a group of vagrants and a biker, he is taking his revenge in the only way he knows how. The police seem powerless to prevent the ever more bizarre and comical deaths, as they struggle to protect the ever dwindling circle of critics.
Very much in the mould of Price's Phibes films, this a fun and campy, comedy horror. Directed with some flair and with some fine turns from such people as Ian Hendry, Michael Horden, Robert Morley and Diana Rigg as Lionheart's daughter.
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