Yet another of the Monsterdon post-cross-posts, we watched this one back in July. It’s definitely a B movie, but still kinda entertaining.

The story concerns a travelling circus, the vampiric artists of which prey on the children of a 19th century Serbian village.
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On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an 80% approval rating based on reviews from 5 critics.[6] … AllMovie called the film “one of the studio’s more stylish and intelligent projects”.[8]

PopMatters also called it “one of the company’s last great classics”, writing, “erotic, grotesque, chilling, bloody, suspenseful and loaded with doom and gloom atmosphere, this is the kind of experiment in terror that reinvigorates your love of the scary movie artform”.[9] … The Los Angeles Times called the film “a true chiller” with “lots of real-looking teeth, believable gore, and – save for a very lurid ending (not for the kiddies) – a lot of pace, a certain sense of subtlety and a definite, consistent style.”[11]

Leslie Halliwell said: “Silly but quite inventive horror thriller.”[12] The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 3/5 stars, writing: “This isn’t the freak show its title might suggest, but a fast-moving, imaginative Hammer vampire tale of punishment and revenge. … Adrienne Corri’s intense beauty shines like a beacon in the murky atmosphere, but the delicacy of mood collapses into blood-spurting horrifics towards the end.”[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_Circus