Vampire Circus (1972) on Netflix
Fifteen years after Stetl's villagers staked the vampire Count Mitterhaus, plague has the town blockaded. Anton and Dora are kept apart, and a traveling circus slips through the cordon.
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- Rotten Tomatoes83%
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Plot summary
Count Mitterhaus, a nobleman rumored to be a vampire, feeds on the children of Stetl until the villagers storm his castle and drive a stake through his heart. With his last breath he promises that their children will die so he can live again. Fifteen years later Stetl is dying of plague, and neighboring towns have thrown up roadblocks with orders to shoot anyone who tries to leave. Dr. Kersh believes the sickness is a disease and not a curse, and he slips out to fetch medicine from the capital, his son Anton helping him past the armed men. Dora Mueller, sent away for safety, is already heading back to her father and to Anton. Then the Circus of Night gets through the blockade and arrives in the village.
Cast
- Robert Taymanas Count Mitterhaus
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Vampire Circus (1972)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Making his feature debut, director Robert Young burned through some 500 feet of film stock trying to get a tiger to sink its teeth into a fake human arm stuffed with pork; the tiger finally bit once beef was substituted.
- When filming on Vampire Circus stretched from its scheduled six weeks into seven, the production was shut down and the footage was handed to editor Peter Musgrave with instructions to make a finished film out of what he had.
- Writer George Baxt said Hammer paid him £1,000 simply for the film's title, and that this was his only contribution to Vampire Circus.
