This article is about the film. For the video game, see Nightmare Circus.
1973 American film
Nightmare Circus
Original theatrical poster
Directed by
Alan Rudolph
Screenplay by
Roman Valenti[2]
Story by
Gerald Cormier[2]
Produced by
Gerald Cormier[2]
Starring
Andrew Prine
Manuela Thiess
Sherry Alberoni
Cinematography
E. Lynn
Edited by
M. K. Productions, Inc.[2]
Music by
Tommy Vig
Production company
Pacific Filmmakers[2]
Distributed by
CMC Pictures Corp.[2]
Release date
October 31, 1973 (1973-10-31)[1]
Running time
86 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Terror Circus (also released as The Barn of the Naked Dead and Nightmare Circus)[3] is a 1973 American exploitation horror film directed by Alan Rudolph,[a] and starring Andrew Prine, Manuela Thiess, Sherry Alberoni, Gyl Roland, and Sheila Bromley. It follows three showgirls who are kidnapped in the desert by a psychopath who imprisons women in his barn near the former site of a nuclear disaster.
The film's director and writer is credited as Gerald Cormier, the name of a stunt man and head of the film's distributor, CMC Pictures.[4] Some sources indicate that Cormier's name was a pseudonym for Rudolph.[6][7] According to actor Prine, however, Cormier himself was one of two other directors hired to shoot the film before Rudolph took over directorial duties.[5]
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^Sykes 2018, p. 35.
^ abHannan 2018, p. 183.
^ abSykes 2018, p. 36.
^LoBrutto 2021, p. 176.
^Allon, Cullen & Patterson 2002, p. 462.
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