Santo Gold's "Blood Circus" (1985 Rarely-Screened Sci-Fi Movie)

Santo Gold's Blood Circus, produced in 1985 by Santo Victor Rigatuso (aka Robert "Bob" Harris) is a sci-fi movie that revolves around aliens invading Earth, and their consequent battle with professional US and USSR wrestlers. The film incidentally starred a few professional wrestlers from WWF (now WWE), and was made on a budget of 2 million dollars. The film was promoted through informecials for Rigatuso's "Santo Gold" mail-order jewellery business.

Not alot more is known of the plot, other than the fact that the planet the aliens come from is called "Zoran", and that Rigatuso, playing the character of Santo Gold, peforms a song before the climactic brawl. The lyrics have nothing to do with the film, and are instead about Rigatuso's "Santo Gold" business.

Rigatuso had trouble finding a distributor for the film, and instead decided to hire out local cinemas and screen it himself, although he only held a few showings, over the course of a week. The film no-where need made up for its 2 million dollar budget.

The film was thought to be lost for decades, until it was announced on the Santo Gold website in 2008 that they had re-discovered a 35mm copy of the film, and were looking for producers for a re-release. Despite this, no producers signed on, and the original 35mm film reel was eventually offered up on eBay in 2011, with a starting price of 21 million dollars, and a buy-it-now price of 750 million (including insurance). No bids were made, and the reel was not sold. Future plans for the film remain unknown.

