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Amazon.com's Price: $9.95 Prices subject to change.
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0827058101097
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Blue Underground
Manufacturer: Blue Underground
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Blue Underground
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 70530
Studio: Blue Underground
Theatrical Release Date: 1967-05
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Mediocre
This is a mediocre horror film at best, and I was a bit surprised that The Count, Mr. Lee, would actually have wanted to be in this mediocre travesty; I guess he's the only aspect of the film to make it interesting, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered.
Rating:  - The only horror is the quality of the Alpha Video film transfer; still, we get Christopher Lee, Leo Genn and Cecil Parker
With a title like Circus of Fear and a star named Christopher Lee, I think it's fair to assume that the movie probably features psychopathic clowns, murderous midgets, trapezes made of razor wire and a safety net filled with glass shards. Wrong. The film is really about a heist...and about the unleashed passions within a community of circus performers...and about family revenge...and about the sins of the past...and about...well, you see the problem. The movie goes after a lot of plot lines, and ... Read More
Rating: - Barbarini's Circus, come for the fun, stay for the...MURDER!
Circus of Fear (1966), aka Circus of Terror (1966), aka Psycho Circus (1967), as it was known in the United States, is based on a novel by prolific writer Edgar Wallace, who, among other works, also wrote the novel that became the basis for the film King Kong (1933). Circus of Fear, directed by John Moxley, probably most remembered for his work on television, The Avengers, The Saint, Mission Impossible, Mannix, Hawaii Five-O, The Night Stalker, any much more, was also responsible for the film Horror ... Read More
Rating: - Dracula Meets Mr. Big.
Christopher Lee must have been very busy back in the '60s. He was taking every movie role in sight. Perhaps that explains why one of Hammer's major stars surfaced in this minor thriller. To set the record straight, despite an attempt to package this flick as a horror film, it's really a crime melodrama that begins well but falters along the way. A diabolic super criminal takes refuge with a British circus after masterminding an armored car robbery. It gets better. Lee plays the hooded lion-tamer/knife ... Read More
Rating:  - PRETTY GOOD MYSTERY THRILLER.....
I was hugely disappointed that this wasn't at all what I hoped it was...that being a Euro-shocker along the lines of "Circus of Horrors". What I found instead is an OK mystery based on a novel by Edgar Wallace that's fairly engrossing with some neat surprises. After an admittedly good opening about an armored car heist, the story shifts to Barbarini's Circus which has an atmosphere rife with tension: assumed identities, jealous romance, a dangerous lioness named Sheba, her hooded tamer Gregor (Christopher Lee), ... Read More
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