Vampire Circus is a 1972 British horror film directed by Robert Young for Hammer Film Productions. It stars Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters and Anthony Higgins (billed as Anthony Corlan).
The story concerns a travelling carnival whose vampiric artistes prey on the children of a 19th-century Austrian village.
It was filmed at Pinewood Studios.
In the film's prologue, Anna Miller takes a little girl in her care into woods to a castle, leaving behin...
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Vampire Circus is a 1972 British horror film directed by Robert Young for Hammer Film Productions. It stars Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters and Anthony Higgins (billed as Anthony Corlan).
The story concerns a travelling carnival whose vampiric artistes prey on the children of a 19th-century Austrian village.
It was filmed at Pinewood Studios.
In the film's prologue, Anna Miller takes a little girl in her care into woods to a castle, leaving behind her husband, the schoolmaster. At the castle, Count Mitterhouse, who is a vampire, feeds upon the child while Anna watches. She is aroused by that sight and afterwards the count makes love to her.
The villagers, led by Miller and the mayor, attack the castle and break in. Müller drives a stake through the Count's heart, who with his dying breath curses the villagers, vowing that their children will die to give him back his life. The villagers punish Anna by having her run the gauntlet until Miller stops it. Anna runs back to the castle and...
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