Circus of Horrors

1960 88 min ★ 5.8 Horror, Crime

A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.

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Cast

Anton Diffring

Dr. Schuler

Erika Remberg

Elissa Caro

Yvonne Monlaur

Nicole Vanet

Donald Pleasence

Vanet

Jane Hylton

Angela

Kenneth Griffith

Martin

Conrad Phillips

Inspector Arthur Ames

Jack Gwillim

Supt. Andrews

Vanda Hudson

Magda von Meck

Yvonne Romain

Melina

Details

Director

Sidney Hayers

Screenplay

George Baxt

Tagline

"Spectacular Towering Terror! One man's lust...made men into beasts, stripped women of their souls!"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Lynx Films Ltd.

Reviews

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Wuchak

March 24, 2020

★ 7/10

***Lurid, comic booky circus flick with myriad beautiful women, wild animals and devious murders*** A couple years after WW2 an English plastic surgeon (Anton Diffring) flees to France with his two cronies (Kenneth Griffith & Jane Hylton) and ends up going into the circus business. A dozen years later he has a successful traveling show that’s notorious as The Jinxed Circus, which draws the sus...