The Circus of Horrors
The Four Chapters from Hell
Celebrating 15 bloody years

It is a staggering 15 years since it first trampled the bloody boards and has since toured relentlessly around the World achieving cult status and dragging Circus’s screaming and shouting into the 21st century and beyond.

Following on from the huge success of The Asylum, & The Day of the Dead show’s - The Circus of Horrors has had a major revamp & is back ‘ROCKIN’ & SHOCKIN’ with a FANG-TASTIC new show created especially to celebrate its 15th bloody year.

The new phantasmagoria ‘THE 4 CHAPTERS FROM HELL’ will take you on a journey though all four of the Circus of Horrors incarnations.

 Beginning in a French Asylum the inmates are liberated and become the performers in the show. The lunatics however turn on their liberator and slaughter him & the other wardens.

Filled with remorse however, they transport their esteemed leader & the whole cavalcade of chaos to Mexico to try & revive him in the Day of the Dead celebrations.

Once revived & now with his ever expanding & sensational cast of Freaks & oddities in place the show moves into Victorian London.

It is the late 1890’s and this is the age of The Freak Show, a young girl Ragen born in the Asylum, is woken from her deep sleep and runs away to join the circus, this really is Ragen in Horrorland. Inevitably she soon realizes that this is no ordinary Circus and is sacrificed by the Evil & undead Dr Haze and fed to the vampires.

But Vampires never die and the final twist to the story take’s us into the future, and into 2020AH, a futuristic vision of mad max / steam punk style civilization inhabited by Vampires, Zombies and the Undead. Regan now also undead seeks revenge on her evil slayer, all of course to disastrous consequences.

The show contains some of the greatest, most bizarre & beautiful Circus acts on earth. From dare devil flying trapeze to a vampiric crow woman suspended only by her hair, from whirlwind roller skaters to sword swallowers. All this plus pickled & bendy people, Voodoo Warriors, Knife throwers and an almighty cast of 26 of the wildest, weirdest but most of all greatest performers on earth.

This is without a doubt a musical masterpiece with the pulsating Devil driven Rock n Roll of Dr Haze & he Interceptors From Hell.

Imagine if Quentin Tarantino had directed Cirque Du Soleil then you would be only half way there.

Quotes:

‘The Circus of Horrors is swiftly becoming as popular as Archaos’
The Independent.

 ‘I have never been as scared in all my life’.
Ant or Dec (never know which ones which).

‘The Greatest Circus of Horrors show to Date’
The King Pole

‘Totally Unbelievable’
Scott Mills, Radio 1

‘Barnum Would be proud’
Time Out

‘All Killer, All Thriller, No Filler’
Gorezone Magazine

:: Obituary ::

Created in 1995 after a chance meeting (ironically at a funeral) between Dr Haze & Circus impresario Gerry Cottle the Circus of Horrors made its debut at the Glastonbury Festival of that year. Later that year Pierrot Bidon (Archaos) was installed as creative director.

Since then The Circus of Horrors has toured the world in major venues & festivals, including, an Arena tour of Argentina, Uruguay, Chile & Holland. Fuji Rock Festival, Japan. Tolwood Festival in Munich, Galway Festival, Ireland, Glastonbury Festival
(Twice), Plus most of Britain's art & music festivals including an unprecedented fourth visit to the Edinburgh Festival.

It has recently completed a 78 venue Theatre tour, the length & depth of the UK and has appeared on many TV show’s including, Ant & Dec’s Saturday night takeaway, Richard & Judy, Davina McCalls Don’t try this at Home (8 times), A Royal Command Performance, A cameo role on London's Burning, ‘So Graham Norton’, Jerry Springer, This Morning, & Bizarre ER and many news related programs. Plus 2 of its former performers were Big Brother inmates.

It has released 3 soundtrack albums ‘Destiny & Desire and Welcome to the Freak-show and the DVD Undead & Alive, the third & definitive album 'The Evil Anthology of Dr Haze & The Circus of Horrors' was released in October 2008.

Additional Quotes.

‘Horror was Shocking but SHOCKING is the new Horror’
Grant Pollard, producer BBC.

‘Bloody Good Fun’  ‘Carry on Coffin’
 Time Out

‘You’ll Die Laughing’
La Nacion in Buenos Aires

‘The Funniest Show On Earth’,
 Abendzeitung in Munich

‘Circus Without  A Condom’
 The Telegraph

‘Better Than Sex’
Japanese Times

‘Bloody Marvelous’
Edinburgh Festival

‘Spectacular Stunts & Rock n’ Roll’
 The Daily Mail

‘The Most Outrageous Show on Earth’
The Weekly News

‘Blood Thirsty & Burlesque’
 The Independent

‘That looks fantastic, But never trust a man in a funny hat’
John Peel (commentating on the BBC for the Glastonbury Festival)

‘Meanwhile the light show was every bit as innovative as Roxy Music’s or the Chemical Brothers when they first started to knock audiences sideways’
 Evening Standard