Theatre of Blood with Silver Screen Sippers

Theatre of Blood is coming to the Electric Palace Cinema on Saturday 21 November, as part of the Silver Screen Sippers series. It's a 1973 British black comedy directed by Douglas Hickox, and the night is built around the man at its centre: Vincent Price.

Price plays Edward Lionheart, a Shakespearean actor who's been torn to shreds by London's theatre critics. Rather than take it lying down, he plots an elaborate revenge, dispatching his detractors one by one in grisly scenes inspired by the Bard's plays. He's joined by Diana Rigg as his devoted daughter, with a supporting cast that includes Ian Hendry, Arthur Lowe, Robert Morley and Coral Browne. It's a gleefully macabre bit of business, and the whole thing is introduced by archivist and writer Jenny Hammerton, who'll be joined by her co-author Peter Fuller.

The screening is part of Silver Screen Sippers, a series at the Electric Palace where Hammerton introduces a golden-era Hollywood classic paired with the star's favourite cocktail or drink. On this particular night, the cinema is serving Vincent Price Bloody Marys.

It starts at 17:00, and tickets are £16, which includes a Vincent Price Bloody Mary — though standard tickets are available without the cocktail if you'd rather skip the drink. So, a screening of Theatre of Blood introduced by Hammerton and Fuller, with a Price-inspired cocktail to go with it.