Instant Favorite.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

CARNIVAL OF BLOOD is a cheapie independent US horror flick that's a little more interesting than most insofar as it was filmed at the real-life Coney Island, which gives a snippet of nostalgia for anyone viewing it today. The film itself is quite poor, mired in low budget production values and a storyline which is far too padded out for its own good, but there are elements of interest here.Chief of these is Burt Young in support, playing a memorable character in what was his feature film debut. The rest of the cast, including the lead, are quite poor, but Young's performance stands out head and shoulders above them; he's a real scene-stealer here. Elsewhere, there are some stalk-and-slash sequences which are too drawn out to be any good, lots of interminable fortune telling, and a mild gory moment or two straight out of H.G. Lewis. It only starts getting interesting right at the climax.

After having seen the interestingly strange Horror film The Undertaker and His Pals,I felt that it was a good time to pay a visit to the carnival and see the second movie on the disc.The plot:Going to a carnival,a number of various couples visit a fortune teller,who tells each of them to "go home" when she gets a card that she does not want them to know about. Ignoring her advice.each couple go on different rides at the carnival,which ends with them all getting brutally killed by a stranger stomping round the carnival.As the bodies start to pile up,Tom decides to investigating.Tracking down the fortune teller,Tom forces her to read his fortune,in the hope that it will change his fortunes in catching the killer.View on the film:Backed by sweet Folk songs and a scrambled Jazz score,writer/director Leonard Kirtman & cinematographer David Howe soak up the on location Coney Island filming,with wonky camera moves and long wide shots capturing the long lines for the rides,and giving the Slasher killings a raw,grubby atmosphere.Originally appearing to be a Slasher flick, Kirtman takes the title in an anthology direction via focusing on a new couple every 10 minutes.Whilst this stops the movie from hitting a dead end,Kirtman's fails to give the couples any unique features which leads to each of them being rather interchangeable,with the film only starting to heat up as Kirtman reveals the Slasher killer on a surprisingly tragic note,as the carnage at the carnival ends.

A crazed killer is mutilating the bodies of customers who visit the Coney Island Amusement Park. Most of these deaths coincide with "what's in the cards", interpreted with a frightened reaction from The Fortune Teller (Kaly Mills). Tom (Earle Edgerton) operates a "dart balloon" stand. It is simple: pop three balloons with three darts and you win a stuffed animal. Over and over the film browbeats us with some annoying customer, whether it be a loud blabbermouth wife whose hostility to her husband grates the nerves of everyone around them, a drunk sailor and his skanky mistress, or a cheapskate woman who nags and berates, as they visit Tom's stand, get their fortune read by The Fortune Teller, then eventually meet their demise. The film, besides the sub-plot of a potential DA, Dan (Martin Barolsky) and his fiancé, Laura (Judith Resnick) and their squabbles and getogethers, some congenial, some not so, drones on and on to such a repetitive degree, same old same old, with the problem being that we have to spend too much agonizing time with these misfits before they are dispatched. The film does find plenty of time for Tom to bicker with his slow-witted assistant, Gimpy (Burt Young, of "Rocky" fame) as they encounter the worst kind of customers visiting their booth. The film's supposed mystery of who the killer is couldn't be more easy to figure out. Burt Young is excruciatingly awful, bumbling over his lines—it was painful to not only watch, but listen. The filmmakers decided to put these ghastly sores on Gimpy's face to make him more grotesque looking—it does kind of fit in with the atmosphere of the surroundings and the type of "human grotesqueries" that show up without as much physical malady as having antagonistic personalities that portray the worst of what mankind has to offer. The characters that eventually die, thanks to the director, are forced on us for such long periods, I figure, so that we just yell at the screen, "Let these assholes die already!" Those fascinated with Coney Island circa 1970 and the denizens which frequented the amusement park (it looks like the director just took a small crew and shot within an operating amusement park, with real locals coming out to enjoy the festivities) or to see Burt Young muck it up in his film debut might like this movie more than the casual horror fan. I was glad it was over once the film ended.

Set in Coney Island this is the story of a psycho killing people on the midway. I'll leave the actual plot for you to work out when you see this.This is one of those so bad its good movies, one where your jaw hangs open in disbelief at whats going on.Take for example the music. Its folk music. Why? I have no idea. I don't think anyone who had a brain cell couldn't see that the music chosen has nothing to do with whats going on on screen. Its so opposite to what you are seeing it grates on you.Its occasionally acted and partially written which makes it somewhat watchable.Its a movie to get drunk and watch laugh at.Its interesting to watch the carnival scenes since its incredibly obvious that they are filming at an operating carnival since people are constantly looking at the actors in a puzzled manner. The crowd scenes after the opening decapitation are fall down funny. As is the response time of the police and medics to the crime scene, never has help arrived that fast in New York.If you're in the mood for grade Z entertainment I recommend the film for a nights rental.