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(aka "Phantom of the Circus")
Directed by Sidney Hayers
UK 1960
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A deranged plastic surgeon (Anton Diffring) takes over a traveling circus, then
transforms horribly disfigured young women into ravishing beauties and coerces
them to perform in his three-ring extravaganza. But when the re-sculpted
lovelies try to escape the clutches of the obsessed doctor, they begin to meet
with sudden and horrific "accidents." Now the trapeze is swinging, the knives
are flying, the wild animals are loose – and "The Grisliest Show on Earth"
is about to begin. *** One of a small cluster of creepy films to come from England's Amalgamated Studios in the late '60s, this lesser entry details the twisted practices of a deranged German plastic surgeon (Anton Diffring) who hides out in France after mutilating a patient and begins his work anew under an assumed name. Staying mobile by traveling with a circus troupe, Diffring offers his services to disfigured female criminals, who pay him for his services by joining the circus as performers -- and by catering to his perverse whims. Naturally, it's not long before the ladies' gratitude begins to wear thin, and they begin to plan their escape... only to meet horrible ends in carefully-orchestrated catastrophes while performing. Viewers may find themselves haunted by Gary Mills's "Look for a Star" several days afterward like a cloying advertising jingle; the performance of a rug-topped Donald Pleasence (as the show's former owner, who meets with a sticky end) is a nice touch. Excerpt from B+N located HERE |
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Theatrical Release: April 1960
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Review: Shout! Factory - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
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Released in the UK on Blu-ray by StudioCanal in October 2020:
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| Distribution | Shout! Factory - Region 'A' - Blu-ray | |
| Runtime | 1:32:12.026 | |
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1.85 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 30,131,920,222 bytesFeature: 27,363,305,472 bytes Video Bitrate: 36.00 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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DTS-HD Master Audio English 1572 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1572 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) |
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Release Information: Studio: Shout! Factory
1.85 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 30,131,920,222 bytesFeature: 27,363,305,472 bytes Video Bitrate: 36.00 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
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• Trailers From Hell With Commentary By Filmmaker John Landis (2:56)
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On their
Blu-ray,
Shout! Factory use a DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel track (24-bit) in
the original English language. The film effects centre around the Big
Top with lions growling, elephants trumpeting and a bouncy score credited to Muir Mathieson (This Happy Breed) and Franz Reizenstein (Yesterday's Enemy,
The Mummy).
Garry Mills' Look For a Star acts as an awkward theme to the film
and you can hear La Couronne d'Or and Léo Delibes
arranged by Mathieson Shout! Factory offer optional English
subtitles on their Region 'A'
Blu-ray.
Extras are kind of lean for Shout! Factory -
no commentary but a 3-minute, sarky, Trailers From Hell piece
with John Landis, a theatrical trailer, TV Spots and stills gallery
Yes, this has some Hammer-esque charm which
was probably the intent of Amalgamated Studios and it also has a bevy of
beauties (Erika Remberg -
The Lickerish Quartet, Yvonne Monlaur -
The
Brides Of Dracula, Jane Hylton -
Deadly Record, Vanda Hudson -
Libel, Yvonne Romain -
The Curse of the Werewolf) parading around often in skimpy and
glittering circus attire. Circus of Horrors
has some over-the-top fun. It could have been named 'circus of cosmetic
surgery'. I enjoyed my viewing - really as Anton Diffring's 'Dr.
Schuler' as an unexplained power-mad Svengali who eventually loses all
his marbles. The Shout! Factory
Blu-ray
will be revisited on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Recommended!
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