Circus Of Horrors is a relatively unknown 1960 British shocker from director Sidney Hayers (Burn, Witch, Burn) wonderfully resurrected here by Anchor Bay. A creepy circus movie is always welcome in my house, and the George Baxt (Horror Hotel) screenplay, while maybe a wee bit short on actual horror, does layer enough dark greasepaint for an ideal rainy Saturday afternoon viewing.

The film opens in England in 1947, and introduces us to Dr. Rossiter (Anton Diffring), a renegade plastic surgeon. After one of his high profile patients has gone mad after a botched operation leaves her horribly disfigured, Rossiter is forced to go on the lam into France with his faithful sidekicks, brother and sister Martin (Kenneth Griffith) and Angela (Jane Hylton). Renaming himself Bernard Schueler, the good doctor stumbles across a run-down circus owned by drunkard Vanet (Donald Pleasence). After performing some successful reconstructive surgery to the disfigured daughter of Vanet, Schueler enters into a deal to help make the circus a money-maker again.