Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

LeonLouisRicci You Can Hire a Circus and Their Performers Pretty Cheap (they work for peanuts) and B-Movie Schlock Meisters didn't Hesitate to do just that and Pad Their Otherwise Slim and Shallow Plots of Horrors Under the Big Top. In this one that Pales in Comparison to the Excellent Circus of Horrors (1960), the Main Attraction is Joan Crawford in Her Next to Last Movie, History has Confirmed it should have been the Last. If You are Seeking Out Low-Budget Crawford from this Period Forget This and See Strait Jacket (1964).Here after a Nifty Opening with a Clever Introduction to the Title, and the First Gory Murder (there will be no more Gore), Virtually Nothing of Note is Left in this Clunker. Unless You have Masochistic Tendencies or like to Make Fun of Others Suffering in Their Craft, this is Only of Interest to Crawford Completist, B-Movie Fans, Insatiable Horror Enthusiasts and those Yearning for the Days when the Circus had Animals.To Nail this Coffin Shut is yet Another Joan Crawford Movie where She is a Love Magnet to a Studly Type about 40 Years Younger and if that doesn't get Your Cringe Factor Cranking than You are Immune to Cringe Inducement.

wes-connors At a traveling circus in Great Britain, the horrific death of her muscular tightrope walker angers leggy owner and ringmaster Joan Crawford (as Monica Rivers). Believing the hanging was an accident, Ms. Crawford coldly advises the notoriety will help ticket sales. "We're running a circus, not a charm school," she tells her more faint-hearted partner Michael Gough (as Albert Dorando). Crawford quickly hires bulging and handsome Ty Hardin (as Frank Hawkins) as a high-wire replacement. Supposedly, he was in the audience and had seen the man hung. Arriving with a mysterious past, Mr. Hardin begins to romance the much older Crawford. Circus tongues may wag about the age difference, but one woman sighs about Crawford having "the gift of eternal youth"...Meanwhile, tightly proportioned rival Diana Dors (as Matilda) tries to get Hardin...From Scotland Yard, detective superintendent Robert Hardy (as Brooks) arrives to investigate the murders. Also appearing is Crawford's delinquent teenage daughter Judy Geeson (as Angela). Expelled from finishing "school for young ladies," Ms. Gleeson prefers circus life. Crawford allows her to perform on the receiving end of a knife-throwing act. That's could be bad news, or not. It's hard to tell. This is because producer Herman Cohen seems to have forgotten to tell his production team that a story should make sense. This film concentrates efforts on the staging of the murders and the positioning of a shadow across Crawford's ageing neck. Both are fun to watch, but they forgot about the plot and we're left wondering how "whodunit" actually committed the crimes.*** Berserk! (11/26/67) Jim O'Connolly ~ Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Judy Geeson, Diana Dors

Toronto85 Murders are taking place at a circus, and people are suspecting that Joan Crawford's character Monica Rivers (owner of the circus) is going "Berserk!". We see one of the circus performers murdered right at the film starts, but most people think it's just an accident. It's after a second man is viciously killed that everyone realizes there is a killer among them. Monica is suspected right away. People believe she's killing people in order to gain a larger audience.We get some circus acts in the film too, pretty lengthy as well. We see circus animals (elephants, lions) perform, cute puppies do tricks, high- wire acts, the bearded lady, etc. Sometimes during these acts, murders are committed. For example, a woman is cut in half in which should've been a routine act after the killer fiddles with the box she lies in. It was around the middle frame that I figured out who the murderer was. Probably the weakest part of "Berserk!" was the writing around the suspects. There aren't that many, and the one's which the film try to lead us to suspecting don't really have great motives. Even the killer's identity was pretty weak.Overall, "Berserk!" is one of Joan Crawford's weaker films. When put up against 'Baby Jane' and 'Strait Jacket', it doesn't have the same excitement or sparkling performance to it. Crawford's character Monica was sort of bland. I'd still check this out though, it's worth at least one viewing. The murder scenes are pretty gruesome for it's time (1967) and the circus acts are very well done.6/10

bkoganbing Joan Crawford's next to last feature film Berserk finds her as boss lady of a circus where a string of murders is being committed. I will say the best thing about Berserk is the circus acts from the Billy Smart Circus where the film was shot in the United Kingdom.As for the film it's your usual slasher flick that could have, but didn't come from Hammer Studios. The whole cast with the exception of Crawford and Ty Hardin playing the hunky high wire artist were from Great Britain and the continent. Hardin's one daring dude, his high wire act not only consists of no net, but he walks underneath a row of very sharp spikes. There's no surviving if he falls.And there's a rapid rate of homicide at Crawford's show unless Scotland Yard in the person of Inspector Robert Hardy can figure out who is killing off the circus, a bit at a time.Maybe Berserk might have been better had Hammer Films actually had done this production. This was the kind of thing they were good at, even if the villain isn't a supernatural one. I will say that the death of Michael Gough is a shocking and original one. You might want to catch Berserk for that alone.As it is there are more red herrings thrown up as potential suspects in Berserk than at feeding time at Marineland.You'll go Berserk just trying to figure it all out.