One of the best vampire films. In a small Serbian village the Count (
Robert Tayman) is killing young girls and drinking their blood. The Count is killed by the villagers but he puts a vampire's curse on them. A number of years later the curse appears to have come true as plague strikes the village. Then a circus arrives led by
Adrienne Corri, this lightens the village mood even though the panther seems to be able to turn into a man, and twin acrobats into birds!
Then the children of the village start to die, killed by vampires. The blood of the slain used to bring the Count back to life. Can the villagers led by the Mayor (Thorley Walters) and including the heroic young Anton (John Moulder-Brown) stop him once and for all?
A truly excellent horror, packed full of the macabre and erotic vampiric savagery. Somehow a traditional circus and vampires really go together. Sci-fi icons David Prowse and Lalla Ward also star.
