Hey, you're just like me. I also like horror movies, old and new, that take place in large carnival or circus settings. The whole backdrop provides an exotic, colorful, yet mysterious and oddly threatening atmosphere. Maybe it's the psychological emotional clash that occurs in the brain when you have to comprehend a place of gaiety, loads of fun and entertainment, lots of bright lights, flashing colors, the tingle and tinkle of carnival/circus music with the sudden overwhelming drama of suspense, gothic horror, death, drama, and mystery.
On the cable Science Fiction channel last month there was a new sci-fi flick about the Jersey Devil monster being brought secretly to a scummy traveling carnival where it escaped and caused havoc and death. It was a marginal monster movie but the carnival setting added greatly to the background, drama, and 'feel' of the movie.
I even like murder drama mystery movies set within a large carnival or circus background. I wish there were more movies like this.
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