Joan Crawford made some decent (if routine) thrillers after the success of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?", but "Berserk!" isn't one of them. A scream-filled, British-made heap of horror clichés, the plot involves a traveling circus beset with a psychopathic killer. Crawford runs the carnage-ridden carnival, and shows lots o' leg in her circus-manager costumes, yet these revealing outfits are a little bit laughable on a woman well into her sixties. Despite the obvious camp-value, the film isn't very enjoyable; it's shameful swill, a low-budget atrocity which may attract masochistic film-buffs, although the trained poodle act is kinda cute. *1/2 from ****
Review of Berserk
