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    Nightmare Circus (1974)

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    Simone (Manuela Thiess), Sheri (Sherry Alberoni), and Corrine (Gyl Roland) are three showgirls on their way to Las Vegas in a beat-up station wagon are stranded in the desert when their car breaks down. Andre (Andrew Prine) shows up in a jeep and takes them to his remote home – to add to his collection of women chained up in the barn.

    Andre dresses like a ringmaster, chains 12 of the girls together, and whips them in the desert. Sometimes he selects one, paints her with blood, lets her go, and releases a hungry cougar.  There’s also a particularly nasty scene with his pet boa constrictor!

    This all takes place on a former H-bomb test site, which explains why Andre’s father has been transformed into a long-haired homicidal mutant – which is why Andre keeps him locked up in a shed in the garden (although he occasionally gets loose).

    Except for some interesting experimental music, this movie has terrible sound, bad editing, and is generally just pretty dreary. Of course, it’s also cheap, misogynic and repulsive.

    Director Alan Rudolph had been assistant director of The Brady Bunch before he made Premonition (1972) and this horror movie using a phoney name.

    Released in some markets as Barn of the Naked Dead.

    Andre
    Andrew Prine
    Simone
    Manuela Thiess
    Sheri
    Sherry Alberoni
    Corrine
    Gyl Roland
    Mrs Baynes
    Sheila Bromley
    Mr Alvarez
    Gil Lamb
    Sheriff Stanford
    Al Cormier
    Derek Moore
    Chuck Niles
    Flower Child
    Jennifer Ashley
    Laura
    Laura Campbell
    Sonja
    Sonja Dunson
    Karene
    Karene Fredrik
    Lin
    Lin Henson
    Crazy Girl
    Jolene Lontere
    Jean
    Jean Manson

    Director
    Alan Rudolph

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