Circus of Fear

11/3/2019

***B movie crime/mystery that takes place at a circus outside of London*** After an armored car heist, some of the money is traced to Barberini's Circus winter quarters in the country just west of London. As dead bodies are discovered the inspector (Leo Genn) suspects several people, including the gruff hooded lion tamer (Christopher Lee). A UK production, “Circus of Fear” (1966), aka "Psycho-Circus,” starts as a big city crime thriller and quickly morphs into a Whodunit at a circus with several familiar British faces in the cast. It’s a colorful B movie with a comic book vibe that’s so melodramatic it’s either amusing or annoying. While the story focuses on the talky investigation, there are plenty of typical circus goings-on, like the lion act, elephants, knife throwing and