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Part of the Vintage Classics collection Classic 1960s British horror. After disfiguring a patient, crazed plastic surgeon Dr Rossiter (Anton Diffring) takes refuge with a circus in France. Assuming the identity of Dr Bernard Schuler, he quickly gains control of the circus and begins reconstructing the faces of scarred women who become part of the sideshow's 'Temple of Beauty' - but things prove very nasty for those who try to leave.The cast also includes Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur, Donald Pleasence and Conrad Phillips.

Circus of Horrors (1960)
88 min
A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.