Vampire Circus

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Vampire Circus

PG

1972

1h 27m

Horror

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Traveling performers take revenge against the Serbian villagers whose ancestors killed their leader 100 years ago.

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Maitland McDonagh

MaitlandOnMovies (Substack)

Dec 29

[M]ore than half a century after it was made it’s still sharp, sexy and emphatically not “campy” ... a Hammer-style vampire movie minus the Dracula/Karnstein-family-line backstory ... wed to the eerie allure of old-school circuses.

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Bill Gibron

PopMatters

02/04/2011

4/5

Erotic, grotesque, chilling, bloody, suspenseful, and loaded with doom and gloom atmosphere, this is the kind of experiment in terror that reinvigorates your love of the scary movie artform.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

02/02/2011

B-

Gory, cliched, silly and inventive.

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John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

01/18/2011

3/4

Hammer's most elusive Gothic horror movie contains frequent nudity, but its arthouse kinkiness -- its hints of pedophilia, bestiality and incest -- offers a more likely explanation for its limited distribution than its exposed skin.

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Bryant Frazer

Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

05/19/2008

B-

Never recovers the concentrated erotic-violent high ground of [its] delirious overture, which stands as a wildly entertaining example of over-the-top horror filmmaking.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

07/23/2005

2/5

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Tim F

Sep 25

Surprisingly creepy and violent for a film from a major studio. Especially horrid was the number of child victims. Is it shakespeare? No. But it is a powerful and disturbing vampire flick.

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Ollie W

11/09/2024

Really difficult to follow. Couldn’t really tell what was going on half the time. Pretty repetitive. None of the Hammer films are scary but they usually have some charm. This one was just confused and stupid.

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BigD J

11/01/2024

Typical boring, dry British style film, as most from 70’s-80’s are. But hey, there’s chi chis and some cool ambiance scenes

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Thom G

02/19/2024

A campy vampire movie with a great atmosphere.

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05/13/2021

Thank God for 70s horror

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05/03/2020

Vampire Circus has a strange blend of elements. The vampire Count in the opening scene looks like a glam rocker who tried to turn his bangs into a widow's peak. The circus that arrives to aid him in fulfilling his curse is complete with a dwarf clown, a loin-cloth-wearing strong man, erotic dancers, and shapeshifting leopard vampire, cousin to the count. The special effects are less than acceptable especially in a laughable leopard attack scene and the characters stretch what can be used as a vampire-repelling cross. Still the movie is enjoyable even if it isn't a standout of the genre, with some eerie mirror tricks and a shocking beginning.

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Synopsis

Traveling performers take revenge against the Serbian villagers whose ancestors killed their leader 100 years ago.

Director: Robert Young
Producer: Wilbur Stark
Screenwriter: Judson Kinberg
Production Co: Hammer Films
Rating: PG
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 2, 2018
Runtime: 1h 27m

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