Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood1973

Name: Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood
Genre: Monster & Creature, Gothic, Survival
Released: 1973-05-06
Rating: 5.7

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

Directed by Christopher Speeth

5.7

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 5.3TMDB 5.5

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Year

1973

Runtime

74 min

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

A decaying, off-season amusement park harbors far darker secrets than rust and neglect when a family goes undercover to find their missing son. Working among the carnival's grotesque inhabitants, they discover that the grounds are home to something genuinely monstrous lurking beneath the midway's surface. This low-budget 1973 oddity leans into surreal, psychedelic nightmare logic rather than conventional scares, giving it a fever-dream quality that lingers well past its runtime.

Content: Monster Violence, Disturbing Imagery, Psychedelic/Disorienting Sequences