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Released
1960 · FILM

Circus of Horrors

Spectacular Towering Terror! One man's lust...made men into beasts, stripped women of their souls!

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Written by
Runtime
88 min
DramaHorror

Synopsis

A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Reginald MillsShot by Douglas SlocombeScored by Muir Mathieson

Also known as

  • Der rote Schattende
  • Le Cirque des horreursfr
  • Il circo degli orroriit

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