Just A "Commedia"
La Commedia del Sangue meant the comedy of blood and in spite of the blood and the special effects the shows were apparently more comedic than horrific. Rikki L. Grimes wrote in The Independent in November 1995 "I expected a Gothic horror play reminiscent of Theatre des Vampires from Anne Rice's vampire chronicles. What I did not expect was a horror comedy. The play is sprinkled with not only one-liners, but jokes that just lingered inside of my head even hours after the play had ended." Although this sometimes worked against it, John Chatterton wrote in his review of Just Us Served in the OOBR that "All the one-liners in the world need a story to hang from or they just lie down and play dead."
Vampyr Theatre is featured in Katherine Ramsland's Piercing the Darkness, David Skal's V is for Vampire, G. Gordon Melton's Encyclopedia of the Undead and Editrice Nord's VAMPIRI Miti, leggende, letteratura, cinema, fummetti, multimedialita. It is also featured in Blair Murphy's film Black Pearls and photography, video, music and artwork from La Commedia del Sangue was exhibited at the Musei di Porta Romana in Milan, Italy. It was also featured in the Italian Ritual magazine.
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