Dora Müller (Lynne Frederick) running through the dense forest, trying to elude the men pursuing her from the roadblocks, in an effort to reach the plague-ridden town of Shtetl. Vampire Circus has remained one of my favorite Hammer horrors from the first time i saw it - i must have been about 15 or 16 at the time. That first viewing also resulted in a tremendous crush on the excruciatingly beautiful Ms. Frederick who was 17 at the time of shooting. And although that first viewing is now almost 25 years ago, i can still feel that strange vibe when i watch the movie again, and again...
The sequence depicted is how the lovely young girl is first introduced in this wonderfully atmospheric movie.
What little there is written about Lynne Frederick, usually concerns her marriage to and divorce from the famous Peter Sellers, and her tragic downward spiral into alcohol and drugs. Check the comprehensive "The Lynne Frederick Story" by Victoria Mary Clarke for a detailed and quite depressing background on her tragic later life.
But to genre fans like me she will always be remembered for her parts in "No Blade of Grass" (1970), the two eurowesterns, "Giubbe Rosse" (1974)" and "I Quattro dell'Apocalisse" (1975), both opposite genre fav Fabio Testi (the first directed by Aristide Massaccesi, the second by Lucio Fulci), "Phase IV" (1974), the elusive "El Vicio y la Virtud" (1975), Pete Walker's "Schizo" and, of course, the marvellous Vampire Circus (1971).
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