VAMPIRE CIRCUS
Director - Robert William Young, Screenplay - Judson Kinberg, story by George Baxt and Wilbur Stark, Producer - Wilbur Stark, Cinematography - Moray Grant, Music - David Shitaker, Art Direction - Scott MacGregor, Special effects - Les Bowie. Hammer. 1972.

Cast: Adrienne Corri (Gypsy Woman), Thorley Walters (Burgermeister), Anthony Higgins (Emil), John Moulder-Brown (Anton Kersh), Laurence Payne (Prof. Mueller), Richard Owens (Dr. Kersh), Lynne Frederick (Dora Mueller), Elizabeth Seal (Gerta Hauser), Robin Hunter (Hauser), Domini Blythe (Anna Mueller), Robert Tayman (Count Mitterhouse), John Bown (Schilt), Mary Wimbush (Elvira), Christina Paul (Rosa), Robin Sachs (Heinrich), Lalla Ward (Helga), Skip Martin (Michael), David Prowse (Strongman)

          In 1810, in a Serbian village, Anna Mueller leads a child to a castle where a vampire known as Count Mitterhouse resides, feeding on children. Anna's husband learns of her treachery and leads a group of angry villagers including the burgomaster to the castle where the evil Count is staked. Before dying, Mitterhouse curses the village and sends for his cousin, Emil.
          Fifteen years later with the arrival of a strange plague and coincidentally, the arrival of the mysterious "Circus of the Night." The circus is headed by an unrefined gypsy woman and Emil, the Count's cousin. The vampiric inhabitants of the circus enact the Count's revenge upon the village. Emil uses the blood of the Burgomaster's daughter to revive the Count. When the villagers realize what has been going on, they storm the castle and put an end to the satanic dwellers of the circus with a blazing fire, including Count Mitterhouse.

WARNING: some screen grabs contain NUDITY and GORE!

Screen grabs by Stuart Hall