movie meatloaf takes place in a circus

A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

Nearly everybody has been to the circus to laugh about clowns, be afraid of the lions and to eat sugar cane. However, can anyone imagine that circus artists reside right there in the circus building - above the arena in the second floor hotel rooms - where they also prepare meals, do their laundry and try out their magic tricks? For over 125 years, despite the discomfort of non-renovated premises and ubiquitous animal odor, local and foreign circus artists follow their routine to create the circus miracle. Sugarcane, Coati and Monowheel is a film about those who dwell in Riga Circus and about what happens outside the arena before and after meeting audience under the circus dome.

A sadistic lion tamer recruits girls for a circus style nightclub.

Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy introduces a number of professional circus acts, plus a cavalcade of movie stars who have side shows under the open air big tent. There is as much action in the audience as Tracy identifies a number of movie stars watching the proceedings incognito, having their own fun in the stands, and sometimes interacting with the circus acts.

In Circus Satanicus, a motley crew of paranormal investigators, thrill-seekers, and misfit oddballs venture into the eerie, forgotten depths of Hobbs Paradise Forest, drawn by the whispers of unexplained disappearances. Beneath the tangled canopy, they stumble upon an abandoned carnival tent— rotting in the shadows, the scent of cotton candy long gone sour. But this is no ordinary circus. As night falls, the sinister truth emerges: demonic clowns awaken to their presence. Twisted by dark magic, these nightmarish jesters feed on fear and flesh, their laughter echoing like the toll of a funeral bell. Each investigator must confront their own deepest fears as they unravel the dark secrets of this cursed carnival and fight to survive the deadly games set by their clownish tormentors.

A folk performer brings his animals to the streets. Two thugs' unreasonable demands make everything more absurd. The film shows a circus in a gradual "mutilation" and portrays a man struggling in his life.