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| “ | I will kill you when I am ready. Be it next week, next month perhaps next year. But first, I'm going to make you suffer in the same way you made me suffer! | „ |
| ~ Lionheart tormenting one of his victims. |
Edward Kendal Sheridan Lionheart is the main antagonist in the 1973 movie Theater of Blood.
He was portrayed by the late Vincent Price, who also played Professor Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective, Matthew Hopkins in The Witchfinder General, Professor Henry Jarrod in House of Wax, Anton Phibes in The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Dr. Phibes Rises Again, Dr. Goldfoot in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine and Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs, Egghead in the 1960s Batman TV series, Prince Prospero in The Masque of the Red Death, The Phantom in Disney's Phantom Manor attraction, King Richard III in the 1962 version of The Tower of London, Cardinal Richelieu in the 1948 version of The Three Musketeers, Zigzag in The Thief and the Cobbler, Lord Edward Whitman in Cry of the Banshee, Sinister Man in Bloodbath at the House of Death, himself in Escapes, and the Narrator in Thriller.
Biography[]
Edward Lionheart was about to have his final days of his Shakespeare career until Peregrine Devlin and his colleagues gave the award to another actor got him furious. He went to Devlin's home and took an award. His daughter, Edwina, tried to calm him down and he went out the balcony and jumped into the Thames.
Two years later, he resurfaced to get his revenge on them. He lured George Maxwell to an abandoned warehouse and his drunk henchmen stabbed him to death (from Julius Caesar, when Julius Caesar gets stabbed by several assassins on the ides of March (March 15)).
Edwina, disguised as a hippy, lures Hector Snipe to his hideout, dressed up as a warrior from Ancient Greece, and killed him with a spear. After Maxwell's funeral, a horse dragged Snipe's body, tied to the tail (from Troilus and Cressida, Hector is killed at the hand of Achilles and his body tied to a horse's tail).
Lionheart and his daughter later head to Horace Sprout's home, inside a trunk, and waited till Sprout and his wife were asleep, Lionheart drugged them both and Lionheart cut off Sprout's head (from Cymbeline, Imogen wakes up and finds Cloten's headless body in bed with her).
Edwina lures Trevor Dickman to his hideout and doing a performance with Lionheart in another costume and he removed Dickman's heart (from The Merchant of Venice, the pound of flesh of Antonio to Shylock).
Lionheart at a wine cellar in another costume, reading his book of his plays, had his drunk servants and Edwina drown Oliver Larding in a vat of wine (from Richard III, Duke of Clarence drowned in a vat of wine).
Lionheart later appeared alone at a fencing practice for Devlin, his sword without a button, had a fight with Devlin (from Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio vs. Tybalt) and cut his chest a lot, but spared him saying he'll kill him for the right time.
Lionheart tricked Solomon Psaltery into killing his wife into thinking she was cheating on him (from Othello, Iago persuades his benefactor, Othello, that his wife, Desdemona, is being unfaithful and drives him into killing her in a jealous rage.
Lionheart and Edwina later killed Ms. Moon by electrocuting her and Lionheart talking from his speech on Henry VI Part 1, where Joan of Arc died at the stake.
Lionheart, Edwina and his followers head to Meredith Merridew's house, killed his two dogs and baked them in a pie (from Titus Andronicus, Titus Andronicus tricked Queen Tamara into eating a pie baked from the flesh of her children) and choked Merridew to death when he force fed it down his throat.
Edwina and her father's followers kidnapped Devlin, and decide to ignite two daggers into lifting down on his eyeballs, from King Lear, the Duke of Gloucester was blinded. Before that he wanted Devlin to present the award to him, when Devlin refused, Edwina presented the award.
Lionheart decided to burn his theatre down, his servants hit Edwina on the head with the award, Lionheart scared them off and briefly spoke to her before she died, he later climbed to the roof until a flame blasted at him and fell to his death.
Victims[]
- George Maxwell (Has him killed by the drunks with sharp instruments in the manner Julius Caesar suffered like in the aptly named play)
- Hector Snipe (Impales him with a spear than has the body dragged along by a horse much like Troyius and Cressida)
- Horace Sprout (Decapitated silently in his sleep much like in Cymbeline)
- Trevor Dickman (Heart cut out in a recreation of The Merchant of Venice)
- Clarence Larding (Drowned in a barrel of wine much like how the Duke of Clarence was killed in Richard III)
- Maisie and Solomon Psaltery (Wife killed by her own husband in a recreation of Othello and Solomon is taken in by the police)
- Chloe Moon (Electrocuted with hair curlers in a manner similar to Joan of Arc's death in Henry VI, Part One)
- Meredith Merridew (Force-fed a pie made from his dogs much like Titus Andronicus)
Attempted Victim[]
- Peregrine Devlin (Fought him with a live saber at a gymnasium in a recreation of the duel scene from Romeo and Juliet and nearly tried to blind him in a manner similar to the Duke of Gloucester in King Lear)