Hammer Films was winding down in the 1970's as their Gothic style started to look very outdated. Attempting to juice it up with more explicit blood and nudity, films like Vampire Circus were the result.
This is a fairly stylish exercise in vampire fangs and mayhem with copious amounts of red paint splashing everywhere and lots of heaving bosoms. The concept of the circus is at least something unusual for this genre and the whole film is an attempt to try something different in bankrupt vampire genre for a change.
The circus acts are rather interesting, particularly some leopard girl thing with a woman wearing nothing but a very form fitting suit of painted stripes while pantomiming some sort of hunting ritual. The circus strong man is played by David Prowse who was the man wearing the Darth Vader costume in the first set of Star Wars films.
Worth checking out, Vampire Circus still suffers from Hammer's cheapskate production values. However nobody knew how to deliver nasty vampires better than Hammer Films.
87 minutes, written by Jud Kinberg.
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