HOUSE OF THE DAMNED (1963)

Circus freaks, longing for their master to get out of an insane asylum, take up residence in a bizarre mansion built by an heiress. When an architect and his wife, Scott and Nancy Campbell (Ron Foster and Merry Anders), come to the mansion to survey it, the performers do their best to frighten them off. The couple are not easily dissuaded and stay. The wife is decapitated and her husband gets very angry and begins trying to find out what is going on. He does. Fortunately, his wife reappearswith her head intact as the beheading was only a circus illusion. Director: Maury Dexter. Cast:Ron Foster, Merry Anders, Richard Crane, Erika Peters, Dal McKennon, Georgia Schmidt. Stacey Winters and Richard Kiel.