Berserk! is on MeTV tonight
Let's watch.
Per RottenTomatoes:
[quote]One of the lower points of Joan Crawford's latter-day career curve (though nothing to compare with the later embarrassment of Trog!), this lurid, low-rent thriller nevertheless gives Crawford the opportunity to chew acres of scenery in a campy Marlene Dietrich-style get-up. She portrays the ringmaster of a cheesy traveling circus troupe whose stars are being whacked in a variety of flamboyant ways... Despite the exploitation potential in this lurid Grand Guignol scenario, this film is fairly light on scares or gore.... [watchable] thanks to Crawford's outrageous, over-the-top performance.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 31, 2020 5:34 AM
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But but but - the jewel tone twinsets! The midgets doing an extraneous musical number! The gratuitous appearance of Diana Dors!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 25, 2020 10:44 PM
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Co-starring DL semi-favorite Ty Hardin, one of Henry Willson's discoveries...!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 25, 2020 10:46 PM
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I’ve never been able to watch the whole movie without falling asleep, I still don’t know who the murderer was.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 25, 2020 11:01 PM
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"This is a circus, not a charm school!"
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 25, 2020 11:03 PM
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It's practically "Strait Jacket" set in a circus. And senior citizen Joan Crawford getting it on with young hunk Ty Hardin is pretty gross to watch.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 25, 2020 11:09 PM
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It's a hoot. Too bad this photo is in B&W — the color scheme is, well, berserk.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 25, 2020 11:38 PM
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“Monica I’m crazy about you....” I always enjoyed this movie in all its ridiculous implausibility. But more so for the really cool vintage campers and Land Rovers. The real circus footage feels like nonmeat filler, but the there are some really cheesy fights and chewing of scenery that are legendary. And the image quality is pretty good, so it’s like looking through a time machine at the fashion and cars of that era. Watch for Michael Gough, as Albert Dorando, putting his head perfectly flush against a wooden post so that the killer can hammer a spike into it. Things like that. A guilty pleasure. Diana Dors looks and is amazing as rough trade Mathilde (“Mathilde you slut!”)
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 26, 2020 12:06 AM
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That Ty should have been a best actor candidate for those lovesick love scenes.
Good grief
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 26, 2020 2:02 AM
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Diana Dors as Mathilde looks like what you'd find in a guide to UK English for Americans to illustrate the word [italic]slag.[/italic]
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 26, 2020 2:17 AM
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I saw the movie when I was a kid, and this is the only moment I remember about it . . .
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 26, 2020 2:20 AM
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[quote]And senior citizen Joan Crawford getting it on with young hunk Ty Hardin is pretty gross to watch.
How do you think *I* felt about it?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 26, 2020 2:34 AM
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I guess her and Bette started the whole Scream Queens thing in the 60s. I don't remember horror movies with fading female stars before that. But afterwards: Olivia de Havilland; Tallulah Bankhead; Agnes Morehead; Constance Bennett; Shelley Winters...
Hey, it paid the bills.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 31, 2020 4:53 AM
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If Ty Hardin kept his shoulders pulled back any further, he'd snap in two.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 31, 2020 5:19 AM
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