Product Details

• Actors: Al Cormier, Sherry Alberoni, Andrew Prine, Manuella Thiess, Jennifer Ashley
• Directors: Alan Rudolph
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Legend House
• DVD Release Date: January 29, 2008
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000XSKDN8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #71,094 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Barn Of The Naked Dead" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Step Right Up, April 27, 2009

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Stanley Runk "Runkdapunk" (Camp North Pines) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Terror Circus (DVD)

This film was also released back in the day as Barn of the Naked Dead, a much, much snazzier title if you ask me. I mean, how do you resist a title like Barn of the Naked Dead? Forget the fact that there is practically no nudity or zombies in the film, the title still rocks. But Shriek Show released it under it's original title, Terror Circus.

Made in the early 70s, it brings to mind films like Last House on the Left, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc. Basically movies where women are held captive by wackos. Here it's Andrew Prine in the psycho role of Andre. He's a bit more laid back and subdued than say, David Hess in Last House on the Left. A good loon though. In this film he lures three stranded women to his home in the desert. He chains them in his barn, which houses other chained women. Andre sees the women, not as sex slaves, which you'd normally guess for this kind of movie, but as his own pets, his circus animals. He's a bit like a demented Sigfried and Roy with the captive women as his tigers. He makes them do odd circus type antics, sometimes he wears a top hat and uses a whip(sounds like my honeymoon). Anyone who doesn't cooperate or tries to escape is killed by Andre's live lion(I think it's a lion anyway). One of the captive women bears a striking resemblance to Andre's long lost mother, and this begins his downfall as he frees her and treats her as such. Soon a jailbreak is in order, but there's one more card in the deck, and I'm not gonna give that away. Lets just say that it again has to do with Andre's family, and it's a cool ending.

I liked this movie quite a bit. It's not nearly as brutal as the more controversial films of the time that tried to push the envelope in brutality. There is very little to no nudity, not much graphic violence, and gore is minimal. It goes more for the messed up psychological angle and does succeed on some points rather well.

The film was directed by Alan Rudolph, who went on to make the Moore/Willis flick Mortal Thoughts, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, and bizarro comedies like Breakfast Of Champions and Trixie.

The Shriek Show disc has an informative featurette with crew(and one cast) members. I would however like to see the Johnny Legend edition of this film that has an interview with Andrew Prine. Not to mention it uses the Barn of the Naked Dead title.

Oh, those wacky 70s.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars More proof that circuses are evil and circus films are bad, February 16, 2004

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Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Barn Of The Naked Dead (aka "Nightmare Circus" ) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I went into this film hoping for a touch of horror; after all, Barn of the Naked Dead would seem to imply that there are going to be dead people (apparently naked) involved. Well, a handful of people do die, but we don't get to see any kind of gory details of the kills, and, strangely enough, there is no nudity whatsoever to be found here. Normally, that would not be a problem, but the film title promises us naked dead people and fails to deliver any skin whatsoever - that's just not right. There is a barn in the movie, though - I have to give them credit for coming through with that promise. The movie itself is pretty hard to watch. Almost against my better judgment, I'm rounding up and giving the movie two stars just because they did establish a plot and actually followed through on it. A bit of unnecessary silliness at the end did nothing to raise my opinion of the film, though.

What we have here are three young ladies traveling to Las Vegas in order to perform in a show. One of them knows a great shortcut through the desert - you know nothing good is going to come of that. Well, they end up stranded in the middle of the desert overnight; the next morning, though, help arrives in the form of a nice young man who offers to drive them to a phone, etc. But wouldn't you know it? The nice young man is actually a psycho who thinks himself the ring leader of a very special circus - a circus made up of female human "animals." He has quite a menagerie already, although he doesn't seem to be training them for much of anything. When they get out of line, he takes the whip to them, and when any one of them proves herself unwilling to be trained, he takes it upon himself to discipline her severely.

I have certainly seen worse exploitation films than this one, but that doesn't make Barn of the Naked Dead a good movie. While the acting of Andrew Prine as the insane ring master is actually quite good, a significant number of roles went to actors and actresses of less impressive quality. The print of this film is also very bad. The colors are the polar opposite of vibrant; this film could deteriorate horrendously in the coming years without anyone even being able to notice. I didn't care for the ending, as it introduced an element that robbed the film of the bit of effectiveness it had managed to generate, yet there is a story here that holds together and makes sense - and that keeps it from being a truly bad movie.

5.0 out of 5 stars terror circus dvd, May 13, 2003

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Justin Ahlers (rapid city s.d.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Terror Circus (DVD)

Terror Circus dvd AKA as barn of the naked dead

I have been into this movie for years. I bought it on vhs years ago and was really bumed out. Then in 2005 i bought a bootleg on DVD with japenesse subtiles It looked alot beter, still I could have only dreamed that the negatives still existed. Now i have the terror circus dvd and wow! this thing looks great. The movie is way more creepy seeing it in hi-def. If you still have a bootleg throw those out and get this one now! Its really a movie only for a certain crowd, but if your fan this is the copy to get. Also this is the most complete version out there, the other ones are missing certain parts, including a scene of the women bathing, while andre watches. very entertaing stuff for 1970s drive in trash.