Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood
1973·Horror·1h 14m
7.0
★
After a young man goes missing at a run-down local amusement park, his family take jobs there in an effort to uncover what happened to him and, in the process, meet a cadre of unsettling characters.
Directed by Christopher Speeth
monster
dwarf
carnival
psychedelics
ghoul
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Daniel Dietrich
Malatesta
Lenny Baker
Sonja
Hervé Villechaize
Bobo
Popular Reviews
14 reviews
JaiPRO
6.0★ · 01/26/26
I love rollercoasters and horror movies !!!!
I love rollercoasters and horror movies !!!!
Sid Bennett
7.0★ · 10/28/25
(Hooptober 12 - 29/31)
Laughed out loud when Mr. Blood was revealed to be a vampire. Like of course. Strange movie, fun watch!
Laughed out loud when Mr. Blood was revealed to be a vampire. Like of course. Strange movie, fun watch!
(Hooptober 12 - 29/31)
Laughed out loud when Mr. Blood was revealed to be a vampire. Like of course. Strange movie, fun watch!
Laughed out loud when Mr. Blood was revealed to be a vampire. Like of course. Strange movie, fun watch!
Gabriel Silva
6.8★ · 10/14/24
Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood is utterly charming in how it understands the carnival/theme park as a uniquely American invention, with a lot of its iconography being heavily embedded in the ideas of the traveling circus, sure, but also vaudeville. The film feels like an excuse to simply run around a park for a while with vaguely scary things happening at almost all times. The carnival, ran by a various array of monsters and ghoulies, is the central attraction for the film, even moreso than the characters we see. This is the original Halloween Horror Nights
Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood is utterly charming in how it understands the carnival/theme park as a uniquely American invention, with a lot of its iconography being heavily embedded in the ideas of the traveling circus, sure, but also vaudeville. The film feels like an excuse to simply run around a park for a while with vaguely scary things happening at almost all times. The carnival, ran by a various array of monsters and ghoulies, is the central attraction for the film, even moreso than the characters we see. This is the original Halloween Horror Nights
angelo
4.1★ · 06/29/24
i don’t think they had an idea where this film was going. they decided to make any trashy place a setting for the movie and just filmed there. i was very confused most of the time and had no idea what was happening with it. but honestly the production design of some areas was just my type of odd and bizarre. i wish this film made a little more sense, i usually love films that are wild and nonsensical but this was really hard to follow.
i don’t think they had an idea where this film was going. they decided to make any trashy place a setting for the movie and just filmed there. i was very confused most of the time and had no idea what was happening with it. but honestly the production design of some areas was just my type of odd and bizarre. i wish this film made a little more sense, i usually love films that are wild and nonsensical but this was really hard to follow.
bia
6.0★ · 10/12/25