Vampire Circus - 50th Anniversary Limited Edition [Blu-ray]

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Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. writing or the occasional bout of overacting, Vampire Circus works as a straightforward but off-kilter spook movie that's got just the right

mentions a perceived "classic early '70s period", which may be a bit of PR hyperbole, but which may also invite approval from those who don't feel

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Hammer Horror as well as offering a glimpse into the making and history of Vampire Circus. Interview clips are the main attraction here, and THE BLOODIEST SHOW ON EARTH' documentary featuring interviews from renowned director Joe Dante and actor Dave Prowse

Supplements: Two documentaries, featurette on horror magazine House of Hammer, motion comic book for Vampire Circus.The film tries to be an exploitation exploration of forbidden fruit, the villagers (and their children) lured to the Dark Side, corrupted by the circus's alleged delights and thus spiritually doomed. And yet the film approaches a tasteless, disturbing subtext of pedophilia, particularly during the opening, where their despoiling of a young virginal child serves as an aphrodisiac for the vampire count and his illicit lover.

It is has been simply awesome to revisit Hammer's most avant-garde, fantastical and disturbing vampire film, and I'm certain that old admirers and new fans will enjoy discovering it on Blu-ray, where that over-the-top visual sensibility can be showcased at its best for the home video market. Flesh & Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror (HD; 2:26:34) is an absolutely first rate history of the studio, with a ton of insightful The Bloodiest Show On Earth’ Documentary with Interviews from Director Joe Dante & Actor Dave ProwseChances are if you mention the phrase "classic Hammer horror" to the casual film fan, and perhaps especially to the genre aficionado, the transfers, Vampire Circus yields a charming, somewhat classic look that might be faded here and rough there, but that nevertheless seems Dialogue, dramatically dubbed in some cases (step forward, Count Mitterhaus), comes over well enough, although there are still times when different voices come out at you from different levels in the mix. Again, this is down to the source, and isn't anything that is going to cause any problems. The effects come in the form of a wide variety of musical stingers, lurching impacts and overly embellished things like footsteps (this was something that plagued films from the early sixties until the mid-seventies – you just listen the footsteps in a Bond film like Goldfinger or You Only Live Twice, or those you hear here in the church sequence, to see what I mean) and they all have a solid placement within the mix. Thus, we find that Synapse provide fans with a few things that they never thought they would see. Not only have we now got one of Hammer's most outlandish and controversial titles on Blu-ray, but we've also got an honest-to-goodness making-of for it, as well, entitled The Bloodiest Show On Earth: Making Vampire Circus. Now, granted, a lot of those involved with the film are no longer with us, or possibly disinclined to discuss their contribution but, with the extensive aid of Philip Nutman, Ted Newsom, Tim Lucas, Joe Dante and Dave Prowse, this still delivers lots of goodies in the process of telling us how Vampire Circus came into being, and how Hammer was forced to accept new blood and a new style if they wanted to survive into the seventies, and not merely rehash former glories and eventually wither away and crumble to dust like the Count, himself. Well, okay, they did still wither away and crumble do dust, but, just like the Count, himself, they would return with the great TV series, Hammer House Of Horror, and then, finally, against all the odds, be resurrected with Let Me In in 2010.

sturdy. A bit of grain is retained over the image, accompanied by some unwelcome but not particularly bothersome pops and scratches on the print, To me this is pure and simple lazy money making exercise to take money from the fans with zero effort made with the disc and it's presentation. Official description: It is an offbeat, highly surreal number with oodles of blood and gore thrown in. A Transylvanian village is sealed off from the outside world due to an outbreak of the plague. Anyone who tries to get in or out is shot dead by the police. Nevertheless, a traveling circus somehow breaks through the lines, and boy, are all its bloodless-looking performers a wee bit strange!Synapse render Vampire Circus without any bogus surround mix, opting to present the film with its original lossless mono mix, coming via the two front speakers, in DTS-HD MA. The resulting audio experience is hardly going to set your system alight with activity, but it is one that sounds faithful and dynamic and clearly offers the best sound that we can expect from the transfer. visual pizazz or thematic import -- but where it comes up short in purpose it rises to the occasion with a premise that should satisfy moviegoers in