My courtship with 1973’s Terror Circus, a.k.a. Barn Of The Naked Dead, began in 1997, my junior year of high school. I was young and in love with a beautiful girl, Sarah, who would eventually become my wife. We were frolicking around town on one gorgeous Sunday afternoon when I stumbled upon the latest edition of John Stanley’s book Creature Features in some mega-bookstore. Stanley’s compelling description of Circus enchanted me for years to come:
“The humiliation of women reaches an all-time exploitation low in this first-feature effort from director Alan Rudolph, who went on to direct major Hollywood features… This has no redeeming values in depicting depraved Andrew Prine, a desert hermit with a mother fixation who kidnaps stranded women and ties them up in his barn… Out in the toolshed, meanwhile, there’s a mutated monster (caused by Nevada nuclear tests) that likes to break out and kill.
“The humiliation of women reaches an all-time exploitation low in this first-feature effort from director Alan Rudolph, who went on to direct major Hollywood features… This has no redeeming values in depicting depraved Andrew Prine, a desert hermit with a mother fixation who kidnaps stranded women and ties them up in his barn… Out in the toolshed, meanwhile, there’s a mutated monster (caused by Nevada nuclear tests) that likes to break out and kill.
- 5/4/2009
- Fangoria
• Cover art has surfaced for Anchor Bay’s DVD of Julian Doyle’s Crowley (a.k.a. Chemical Wedding), which we first broke the news about here. The disc has a street date of March 10; we’ll keep you posted on the specs.
• Media Blasters sent along the cover art for its February 24 double-disc release of One Missed Call 3: Final, along with details on more early-2009 titles. The latest in the death-by-text-message series, to be issued under the Tokyo Shock banner, will be presented in anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen with Japanese 5.1 and 2.0 and English 2.0 soundtracks, with extras yet to be finalized. Retail price is $29.99. On the Shriek Show/Code Red label, the company has Terror Circus (a.k.a. Barn Of The Naked Dead) tentatively slated for January 27. The 1974 directorial debut of future art-house darling Alan Rudolph, starring Andrew Prine as a desert maniac who keeps woman captive, has been...
• Media Blasters sent along the cover art for its February 24 double-disc release of One Missed Call 3: Final, along with details on more early-2009 titles. The latest in the death-by-text-message series, to be issued under the Tokyo Shock banner, will be presented in anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen with Japanese 5.1 and 2.0 and English 2.0 soundtracks, with extras yet to be finalized. Retail price is $29.99. On the Shriek Show/Code Red label, the company has Terror Circus (a.k.a. Barn Of The Naked Dead) tentatively slated for January 27. The 1974 directorial debut of future art-house darling Alan Rudolph, starring Andrew Prine as a desert maniac who keeps woman captive, has been...
- 12/23/2008
- Fangoria
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