 |
|||
 |
Empty
|
 |
 |
 |
|||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
Circus of Horrors
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
Our DVD Price: £8.99 RRP: 
Availability This product should be despatched within 4 days. This product will be dispatched from Guernsey. Delivery times
Earn 40 Bonus Points when you buy this product. More info |
Film Description
A lurid shocker from 1960 in which a plastic surgeon on the run after disfiguring the face of a patient hides out in a circus, where he transforms the faces of badly scarred women into the the beautiful stars of his show. However, the police and a nosy reporter become interested when the women who want to leave the circus begin dying in freak accidents, and they begin to suspect that the doctor is responsible.
Film Information
| Director | Sidney Hayers | ||||
| Starring | Yvonne Romain, Donald Pleasence, Anton Diffring, Kenneth Griffith, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur
|
||||
| Genre | Classic Film
|
||||
| Country | UK | Language | English | Year | 1960 |
Technical Details
| Certificate | 15 | Length | 88 mins | Label | OPTIM | ||
| Cat No | OPTD0847 | Format | DVD | Colour | |||
| Region | 2 | ||||||
4 Stills
 |
 |
Share your thoughts and opinions - write a review
Review by Julian Upton on 16th April 2007
Relishing the salacious new freedoms offered by the British X certificate, Hayers’ outrageous Circus of Horrors is usually linked with Michael Powell's Peeping Tom for its frank (for its time) depiction of sadism and its daring exploitation of the partially dressed female form. More unusually, both films also centre on a blond, Teutonic psychopath who happens to work in the entertainment industry. (Carl Boehm is an unhinged cameraman in Powell's film; here, the dashing Anton Diffring is a showman with a distinct difference.) Both films were released within a few months of each other in 1959/60.
No-one should make the mistake of looking for layers of psychological complexity in Circus of Horrors. Rather, you should just enjoy the perverse oddness of this lurid tale of a renegade plastic surgeon who takes over a circus and populates it with misfits whose faces he has reconstructed. It is vintage 'Horror Double Bill' material, directed with characteristic imagination by the ever-reliable Hayers, who was also responsible for the stylishly sinister tale of voodoo on a University campus, Night of the Eagle.
View more reviews by Julian Upton
Recommendations from fellow customers
by Val Guest
by Various
by Various
by Harold French / Ken Annakin
More films directed by Sidney Hayers
More films starring Donald Pleasence
by John Sturges
by Gary Sherman
All Quiet On The Western Front (1978)
by Delbert Mann
More films starring Kenneth Griffith
by George King
by Roy Boulting / John Boulting
More films starring Anton Diffring
by Paul Annett
| Special Offers | ||||||||||||||||
|
More Great Offers
|
| BestSellers | ||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
| Recommended by MovieMail | ||||||||||
|
A curated collection of the best DVDs
Latest Additions
|
||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||
| Just Released |
|
Around the World in 80 Gardens Garage Water Lilies The Other Boleyn Girl There Will Be Blood |
| Coming Soon |
|
Margot at the Wedding Up the Yangtze Seven Days to Noon You, the Living The Orphanage |
|
||
| Home | Film Catalogue | New Releases | Special Offers | Top 30 | ||
|
||
| Film Collections | Film Media | News | Your Account | Help | Become a MovieMail affiliate | ||
|
||
For questions or assistance, call us on (+44) 0844 776 0900 or email on enquiries@moviemail-online.co.uk © 2004-2007 MovieMail, Ltd., All Rights Reserved. Find out more about MovieMail |
||
|
Night Of The Eagle
Hell Is A City
Encore
Quartet (1948)
Trio
