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  1. Macbeth (2019 Video)

    Series
    RSC Live from Stratford Upon Avon
    Director
    Polly Findlay

    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...

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  2. Macbeth Horror Suite di Carmelo Bene Da William Shakespeare (1997 Film, Television)

    aka: Macbeth Horror Suite

    Director
    Carmelo Bene

    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.

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  3. Top Billing (1991 Television)

    Series
    Tales from the Crypt
    Director
    Todd Holland

    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...

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  4. Opera (1987 Film)

    aka: Terror at the Opera

    Director
    Dario Argento
    Producer
    Dario Argento

    Feature film. In this giallo a young opera singer, Betty (Marsillach) gets her big chance to sing Lady Macbeth when the previous star of an avant garde production of Verdi’s Macbeth breaks her leg....

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  5. Ninth Configuration, The (1979 Film)

    aka: Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane.

    Director
    William Peter Blatty
    Producer
    William Peter Blatty

    Feature film. Theological thriller in which some critics have seen parallels with Hamlet in its theme of madness. In a gothic castle called Center 18, the US military attempts to establish whether a group...

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  6. Theatre of Blood (1973 Film)

    Director
    Douglas Hickox
    Producer
    John Kahn; Stanley Mann

    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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  7. Flesh and Blood Show, The (1972 Film)

    aka: Asylum of the Insane

    Director
    Pete Walker
    Producer
    Pete Walker

    Horror film. A group of eight actors rehearsing a review at the Dome, an abandoned seaside theatre, are attacked by a mysterious killer. In an extended flashback sequence (initiated by Othello’s exchange...

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  8. Tower of London (1939 Film)

    Director
    Rowland L. Lee

    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.

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  9. Island of Lost Souls (1932 Film)

    Producer
    Erle C. Kenton

    Feature film adapted from H.G. Wells’ short novel The Island of Dr Moreau (1896). The hubristic scientist, Dr Moreau, is banished from his home to a remote island where he proclaims himself the absolute...

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