Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood

  • Horror
5/6/1973
74
R

You'll shriek with horror!…as you watch his victims take a diabolical roller-coaster ride to bloody death

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.

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  • Wuchak

    Artistic no-budget flick shot at a near defunct carnival north of Philly

    Shot in late 1970, but not released until the spring of 1973, this indie combines elements of Carnival of Souls and Night of the Living Dead with bits reminiscent of The Mansion of Madness, aka "Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon.

    There is a sense of low-budget macabre artistry with the amusement park in its death throes being the highlight, but the characters arent fleshed out and so the story becomes tedious. Furthermore, plain Jane Janine Carazo is serviceable as Vena, but the production needed someone more alluring to keep the viewers attention. The later "Closed for the Season" (2010) was shot at Chippewa Lake Park in northeast Ohio and had the same deficienci...

    December 15, 2025

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