Vampire Circus (1972) [Import]
by Robert Young
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Director: Robert YoungPrimary Contributor: Adrienne Corri
Primary Contributor: Thorley Walters
Primary Contributor: Anthony Higgins
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 83 unknown-units
Studio: LW Editora Ltd., Brasil
Product features:
- All-region NTSC DVD
- Brazilian import
- Sleeve notes, title in Portuguese, Audio in English
Movie Reviews of Vampire Circus (1972) [Import]
Movie Review: "..and Your Children Will Die - To Give Me Back My Life..."
Summary: 5 Stars
Feels good to be right sometimes.
Only a few short months ago I appeared on these very pages with a stark warning about travelling folk and all they get up to in their mysterious twilight world.
I have been derided as bigot in some quarters, fool in others, but no longer must I rely on hearsay and jangle to support my rantings - here at last is the irrefutable proof.
The town of Schtettle was complacent too. Thinking a travelling circus would divert the long-suffering folk from maudling over the dreadful plague decimating the population seems like a top idea on paper, but as so often turns out in Hammer movies - especially ones with 'vampire' in the title - the reality is a BIG bad.
By wretched bad luck, the circus people are led by Emil, who turns out to be cousin to the desperately evil Count Mitterhaus, a nasty noble who seduced the nubiles and murdered the children of Schtettle, until being staked to oblivion years before.
Emil's not very happy about this, so he sets about murdering and seducing the present-day youth of miserable Schtettle, to fulfil the hissing Mitterhaus' dying-breath curse and in so-doing, bring him back to life.
The circus turns dazzle the unfortunate audience, who after witnessing trapeze artists turning into bats, an insane dance by a naked tiger-woman and Emil himself transforming into a scary panther among the attractions, begin to fall prey to the blood-sucking performers.
The children are tricked into a magic castle, breathlessly bonked in animal cages, led AWOL through a hall of mirrors only to find themselves on the receiving end of the gleaming teeth of Emil (NOT played by David Essex - too many stereotypes being enforced here for that languid hypocrite) and his beaming kin.
The adults fare no better. A family is slaughtered when they're tricked by the circus dwarf (a truly nightmarish figure - and something else I've warned you about!) who leads them to death in the sinister frondian forest that surrounds the village...
Sound good so far..? You bet it is. 'Vampire Circus' is crammed to the beams with sex, violence, freaks and caravans.
There's gory murders, a belt-buckle whipping, full-frontal nudity, a burning castle and a chunky staking in the pre-credits sequence alone! The throbbing film proper then takes a whopping great 4 minutes to set the scene 15 years later - then we're straight to the plague victims, the arrival of the circus ("We're here to steal the money from dead mens eyes...") and the unhappy rumblings of the townsfolk, who, brilliantly, are being punished for doing the right thing!
Yay. Should've let old Mitterhaus be. Alone in his castle there, (except for hot visitors - the townsmen's wives!) doing no harm to no-one. These 19th Century Serbian villages don't know when they're well off.
I won't spoil it, but 'Vampire Circus' ends with a massacre that puts Little Big Horn to shame. Vampires, townsfolk, soldiers and dwarves - all involved in a huge blood-bath in a tiny crypt, and there's a decapitation by cross-bow you really need to see.
I strongly believe all gypsy types behave like this, (then again, I believed there was an evil race living under the sea after I watched 'Stingray') and we must be on constant guard at all times if we don't want our children to be eaten to death.
'Vampire Circus' is hard evidence of what happens when your apathetic town-councillors sit on their hands and you don't barricade your municipal car-parks...
Summary of Vampire Circus (1972) [Import]
From the IMDB; "A village in Nineteenth Century Europe is at first relieved when a circus breaks through the quarantine to take the local's minds off the plague. But their troubles are only beginning as children begin to disappear and the legacy of a long-ago massacre is brought to light." Widely considered one of the best Hammer Horror films.Similar DVD Movies
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