I usually only post these to !bmoviebonana@lemmy.world, but this one is about vampires, and SUPPOSEDLY although it has low-budget production values the story isn't that bad. I dunno though. Anyway if you want to watch a vampire movie while reading the thoughts of a bunch of fediverse wits, then read on....

Vampire Circus (1972) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/100004533/vampire-circus
• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMbG7lnzccI
• uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for those tubi and youtube links
• archive: https://archive.org/details/vampire-circus-1972-1080p-blu-ray-yts.-mx
• someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm149050

The story concerns a travelling circus, the vampiric artists of which prey on the children of a 19th century Serbian village.
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On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an 80% approval rating based on reviews from 5 critics.[6] ... AllMovie called the film "one of the studio's more stylish and intelligent projects".[8]

PopMatters also called it "one of the company's last great classics", writing, "erotic, grotesque, chilling, bloody, suspenseful and loaded with doom and gloom atmosphere, this is the kind of experiment in terror that reinvigorates your love of the scary movie artform".[9] ... The Los Angeles Times called the film "a true chiller" with "lots of real-looking teeth, believable gore, and – save for a very lurid ending (not for the kiddies) – a lot of pace, a certain sense of subtlety and a definite, consistent style."[11]

Leslie Halliwell said: "Silly but quite inventive horror thriller."[12] The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 3/5 stars, writing: "This isn't the freak show its title might suggest, but a fast-moving, imaginative Hammer vampire tale of punishment and revenge. ... Adrienne Corri's intense beauty shines like a beacon in the murky atmosphere, but the delicacy of mood collapses into blood-spurting horrifics towards the end."[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_Circus