I still don't get it...


How did Carmelita have anything to do with the plot?

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All through the movie, I thought the alcoholic dancer, the gypsy's stripper assistant and the dancer who went on a date with the barker were all the same person. This has to be the most muddled movie ever made.





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No disagreement here.

Those 3 women all looked the same, acted the same, and had almost nothing which seemed notable about them.

The good news is that you can screw with an audience's mind if there are enough similar-looking cast members to deliberately induce confusion (having the double walk by in the background without any of the cast appearing to have noticed or commented).

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Carmelita was Madame Estrella's sister, the drunken dancer was a different woman and the girl that dated the barker (the best looking one to me) was yet another woman. They did not look alike to me.

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Because Carmelita was so attractive (by 1963 standards), she was the bait used to lure men backstage, where they could be surreptitiously transformed into a member of Madam Estrella's Zombie Army.

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