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Made-for-television film. A giallo interpretation of Macbeth. The production was first staged at the Festival d’Automne at the Theatre de Paris in 1990.
Anthology horror series based on the EC comic books published by William Gaines in the 1950s. In this episode an out-of-luck actor (Lovitz), who doesn’t have ‘the look’, auditions for Hamlet to find...
Feature film. Richard III interpreted as an historical costume drama/horror film with much emphasis on the torture methods used by Mord (a Buckingham equivalent). There are no direct references to Shakespeare.
Short. Fantasy horror film. England, 1596. The Brotherhood of St. George uses William Shakespeare to trap the Faerie Court within an enchanted book, sparking a secret war with the pagan Feyists. 250 years...
Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe. In this Halloween edition the actors Michelle Terry and Paul Ready discuss fear and horror in cinema and theatre and the ghosts found in Shakespeare’s plays.
Two sessions given during the First World Shakespeare Congress, held in Vancouver, B.C. Peter Brook is interviewed in Paris by Moelwyn Merchant. Merchant outlines the qualities which have made Peter Brook...
Polly Findlay’s 2018 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth starring Christopher Ecclestone and Niamh Cusack, filmed live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in April 2018. The production references...
Horror/werewolf movie in which some have seen parallels with Romeo and Juliet. In Bucharest, Vivian, an orphan, was raised by her aunt after losing her parents ten years before in the Rocky Mountains,...
Feature film. Conceived as a sequel to Twelfth Night set as a contemporary mafia horror film. "Life is perfect for mob enforcer Sebastian. Sebastian’s boss and brother-in-law Orsino has just put him in...
Feature film. Spoof horror picture in which a ham Shakespearean actor, Edward Lionheart, takes revenge on eight critics who have ridiculed his performances. He engineers a series of elaborate murders....
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