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Circus of Horrors is a British film of genre Drama directed by Sidney Hayers released in USA on 31 august 1960 with Anton Diffring
Circus of Horrors (1960)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 31 august 1960
Length 1h32
Directed by Sidney Hayers
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Circus films
Rating59%
Circus of Horrors is a 1960 British horror film directed by Sidney Hayers. It stars Anton Diffring, Yvonne Monlaur, Erika Remberg, Kenneth Griffith, Jane Hylton, Conrad Phillips, Yvonne Romain and Donald Pleasence.
Film critic David Pirie considered it to be the third entry in Anglo-Amalgamated's "Sadian trilogy" in his book A Heritage of Horror (1971), because the films focus on sadism, cruelty and violence (with sexual undertones) as opposed to the supernatural horror of the Hammer films in the same era. The previous films in the trilogy were Horrors of the Black Museum and Peeping Tom, both in 1959. It was released in the US by American International Pictures as a double feature with The Angry Red Planet.
Synopsis
In 1940s England, Dr. Rossiter (Anton Diffring) is a plastic surgeon wanted by the police after an operation goes hideously wrong. However, believing himself to have brilliant abilities as a surgeon, he and his assistants (Kenneth Griffith and Jane Hylton) evade capture and escape to the Continent. There Rossiter changes his name to Schüler, and befriends a circus owner (Donald Pleasence) on whose deformed daughter Nicole (played by Carla Challoner as a child, Yvonne Monlaur as an adult) he operates.Actors
Anton Diffring
(Dr. Schuler)
Erika Remberg
(Elissa Caro)
Yvonne Monlaur
(Nicole Vanet)
Donald Pleasence
(Vanet)
Jane Hylton
(Angela)
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