7.8
Freaks
1932
“You'll shriek with horror!…as you watch his victims take a diabolical roller-coaster ride to bloody death”
Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood (1973)
May 6, 19731h 14mEN
5.5
33 votes
Overview
After a young man goes missing at a run-down local amusement park, his family take jobs there in an effort to uncover what happened to him and, in the process, meet a cadre of unsettling characters.
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Christopher SpeethWriter
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English
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User Reviews
Wuchak
4.0**_Artistic no-budget flick shot at a near defunct carnival north of Philly_** Shot in late 1970, but not released until the spring of 1973, this indie combines elements of “Carnival of Souls” and “Night of the Living Dead” with bits reminiscent of “The Mansion of Madness,” aka "Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon.” There is a sense of low-budget macabre artistry with the amusement park “in its death throes” being the highlight, but the characters aren’t fleshed out and so the story becomes tedious. Furthermore, plain Jane Janine Carazo is serviceable as Vena, but the production needed someone mo…
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