"), Circus Of Horrors just improves as the running time moves on. The previous films in the trilogy were Horrors of the Black Museum and Peeping Tom, both in 1959. [6], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Circus_of_Horrors&oldid=986255272, Wikipedia articles needing rewrite from October 2017, Articles to be expanded from September 2014, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 30 October 2020, at 18:49. I enjoyed my viewing - really as Anton Diffring's 'Dr. In the Nineteenth Century, in London, the psychologist Charles Marlowe researches a new drug capable to release inhibitions and uses his patients as guinea pigs. Nov 01, 2009. In 1910, Hong Kong members of a secret Tong crime syndicate protect their identities by murdering the daughter of a British sea captain who vows revenge. The film also manages to do a thing that few films really manage, and that is that it's actually quite horrifying. Writer George Baxt came up with the idea of a circus run by a plastic surgeon who turns criminals into beautiful people. Circus Of Horrors is a beautifully shot (not gaudy, as you might expect), brilliantly entertaining 90 minutes with a fair amount of … Dull horror flick from schock distributor AIP. Avery moody, atmospheric euro-horror thriller. It will include an amazing amalgamation of acts, driven by a rock n roll sound scape, a show that will have you sat on the edge of your seat when not falling off it with laughter. This, however, is a definite asset to the movie as it makes the audience feel contempt for the man, and that pays off immensely towards the ending, which is rich with poetic justice. [2], The film was shot at Beaconsfield Film Studios, with location filming on Clapham Common in London and in Old Amersham, Buckinghamshire. From Nipple Tassels to Tour Jackets, Manic Panic hair and make up to Gifts and Wrapping Paper. He worms his way into the family, operating on the girl and curing her injuries for "free" and manipulates his way into running the circus, taking it over when the owner dies in a drunken incident with a bear. 'Fantastic, that's what I call entertainment' (David Hasselhoff) Circus of Horrors will take you on a rock n roller coaster ride of amazing & bizarre acts. Circus of Horrors: Dr. Rossiter (Anton Diffring) is a plastic surgeon who is running from the police after an operation goes very badly and he ruins a person's face. His character is portrayed as being malevolent and inhumane throughout the film, as all he cares for is himself and his work, which is shown best by the way he treats the love given to him by his associate's sister, which makes it hard for the audience to feel anything at all for him. 34,482 likes. He befriends scarred women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". Use the HTML below. Landing in France he meets the owner of a rundown circus (Donald Pleasence).The circus becomes the ideal front for him to continue his work, but his surgical exploits become increasingly deranged and experimental. In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods. Three rich trustees are murdered - appearing as suicides. There Rossiter sees a girl scarred in the recent war, Nicole (played by Carla Challoner as a child, Yvonne Monlaur as an adult), and befriends her father, a circus owner (Donald Pleasence). Dull horror flick from schock distributor AIP. The new date for the show is now Sunday 13 June 2021. In 1947 England, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery. . 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