Was this review helpful to you? But their troubles are only beginning as children begin to disappear and the legacy of a long-ago massacre is brought to light. Nevertheless, with the help of the circus strongman, Emil and Anna succeed in having Dora and her guardian, Hauser's wife Gerta, kidnapped and taken to the crypt at Castle Mitterhaus, where they intend to use their blood—just like the blood from their previous child victims—as part of a ritual to restore the Count back to life. As the plague sweeps the countryside, a quarantined village is visited by a mysterious traveling circus. A master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires. The film opens in an idyllic forest outside the town of Schtettel. In 1830, forty years to the day since the last manifestation of their dreaded vampirism, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. Soon, young children begin to disappear, and the locals suspect the circus troupe might be hiding a horrifying secret. Revived by the stake's removal, the Count rises from his Three of the cast—Laurence Payne, Adrienne Corri and Lalla Ward—would be reunited in the 1980 season of the British Critics at the time of its original release weren't quite as impressed. This horrifying sight distracts him long enough to be burned fatally by the fire, but he lives long enough to alert Anton and the other men to Dora's plight. "'Circus' Outgores 'Countess'. Looking for some great streaming picks? Men from the village, directed by Müller and including Jenny's father Mr. Schilt and the Bürgermeister, invade the castle and attack the Count. Doctor Thompson is helpless and asks professor James Forbes for help. The Count goes after the descendants of Van Helsing.
In 17th-century Hungary, elderly widow Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy maintains her misleading youthful appearance by bathing in the blood of virgins regularly supplied to her by faithful servant Captain Dobi. As Hauser starts to burn down the hall of mirrors, he sees in the Mirror of Life a vision of Emil and Anna bleeding Gerta over the Count's body. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Despite his wife's concerns over their wayward daughter Rosa's attraction to the handsome Emil, the Bürgermeister takes her to the circus and, at the gypsy woman's invitation, visits its Müller's daughter Dora, whom he sent away earlier for her protection, has slipped past the blockade and is returning to the village to reunite with her father and her beloved Anton when she discovers the Schilts' dismembered bodies, arousing suspicions about the animals of the circus.
The professor and his ... With his dying breath, Mitterhaus curses the villagers, vowing that their children will die to give him back his life. Young Katy, Gustav's niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an instrument of Justice in the region. After being reanimated, Baron Frankenstein transfers the soul of an executed young man into the body of his lover, prompting her to kill the men who wronged them. Anton, finding his way through the tunnel into the crypt despite a deadly ambush by Michael the dwarf, attempts to rescue Dora but is halted by Emil. Vampire Circus (1972) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The story concerns a travelling circus, the vampiric artists of which prey on the children of a 19th-century Serbian village. The rumours prove true, as Anna, who has become Mitterhaus' willing acolyte and mistress, gives Jenny to him to be drained of her blood. He also brings news of vampire killings in other villages, all of them toured by the Circus of Night. It was filmed at Pinewood Studios.
Back in the castle crypt, Anna is killed when she attempts to save Dora from Emil out of sudden remorse. A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. As a young child Jack the Ripper's daughter witnesses him kill her mother. Meanwhile, Dr. Kersch returns from the capital with an imperial escort and medicines for the plague. A village in Nineteenth Century Europe is at first relieved when a circus breaks through the quarantine to take the local's minds off the plague. Despite it’s gothic trappings, Vampire Circus is a Felliniesque, hallucinatory and erotically charged mind-melt that has more in common with the bolder, more sexually charged horror films coming out of continental Europe than the “traditional” Hammer horror film.