MALATESTA'S CARNIVAL OF BLOOD (1973)

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A group of teens get trapped in a weird carnival inhabited by vampires, ghosts and zombies. One kid's parents go looking for them. Run of the mill stuff, right? Not quite...ya see, it never makes clear who is a ghost, who is a vampire and who is a zombie. Oh- and the ringleader of these ghouls controls them by showing old silent films with a 16mm projector (one of which is the HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME). At times it veers into a kinda art film-ya know, the kind where everything quits making sense and just concentrates on weird imagery and such nonsense. To it's credit, it IS gory ( flesh eating, bloody deaths, etc...), and kept my interest. Oh , and it's got Herve ("Da plane, Boss!") Villachaize too! And a guy playing an old gypsy woman! And was filmed at an abandoned carnival!
It veers from stupid to some very eerie scenes that look like they walked off a page of Tales from the Crypt.
Not to be confused with the 1970 CARNIVAL OF BLOOD with Burt (AMITYVILLE 2) Young.
It's on Tubi, if yer interested.