Back in 1972, Hammer Studios found itself in a good and bad place as far as vampire movies go. On the one hand, they were pretty close to having squeezing every drop they could out of both "Dracula" and "Carmilla." Yet audience demand remained. One solution they hit upon was a series of original films about the undead, but made in the same manner.
"Vampire Circus" may be the best example of this. It story certainly mined well-known resources used by Hammer until then. The handsome, decadent aristocrat with fangs. Many a lovely young lady with plenty of cleavage to heave in terror (or lust). Long, bestial fangs and plenty of (too) bright and (too) thick blood. A fire. Makeshift crosses and other anti-vampire weapons (decades before Buffy). A story of revenge, first by villagers against the monster preying upon them, then by the vampire himself on his enemies for daring to defend themselves. An Eastern European village filled with English stereotypes, albeit having German names, all set in a vaguely mid-nineteenth century era somewhere inside the Austrian Empire.
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