The Flesh and Blood Show is a 1972 British horror slasher film[3] directed and produced by Pete Walker, and starring Ray Brooks, Jenny Hanley, and Luan Peters.

[citation needed] Actresses and roommates Carol Edwards and Jane Pruitt are among a group of unemployed actors who are assembled by an anonymous producer to appear in a stage play titled The Flesh and Blood Show.

Mike summons local police to investigate, but when they arrive, they find several mannequin heads, but no sight of Angela's body.

During a rehearsal, someone begins toying with the stage lights, illuminating Sarah's nude corpse seated in an upper wing of the theatre.

Mike forces the actors to hide in the dressing room, while he hears the voice of a man reciting lines from Othello in the auditorium.

In a flashback, it is revealed that Bell – who is in fact Sir Arnold Gates – attacked his wife and co-star Harry after finding them having an affair.

Gates wanders the theatre in a fugue state, reliving the night of his murders, and entering the dressing room where the actors are hiding.

As Mike and the actors reflect on the events, it is revealed that Julia is in fact Gates's daughter, whom he abandoned after killing Pamela and Harry.

[7] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Despite the standard interpolation of some unconvincing sex and a dismally unsuccessful 3D finale which is literally painful to the eye, The Flesh and Blood Show has an unexpectedly pleasing, old-fashioned quality about it, deriving partly from its elaborate Agatha Christie-type plot, and partly from its setting in a dilapidated old theatre at "Eastcliffe-on-Sea"(actually Brighton pier).

The situations which develop from the classical elimination of suspects do become tiresome and are not helped by some coy humour, but at least the film makes good use of its theatrical setting.

Practically all of this atmosphere is dissipated in the subsequent intrigues of the young cast, but the basic situation and setting remain sufficiently atypical to sustain interest until the crushingly banal denouement.

[10] Kino Lorber issued a Blu-ray edition in 2014 under their "Redemption Films" line, both as a standalone release, as well as in a multi-film set titled The Pete Walker Collection II, alongside Frightmare (1974), House of Mortal Sin (1976), and Home Before Midnight (1979).