Sardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant Ralphus run a show in which, under the guise of 'magic', they torture and murder people in front of their audience. But what the punters see as a trick is actually real.
This movie contains 6 potentially triggering events.
theres a LOT of gore. the sfx are not realistic by modern standards (the blood in particular is very clearly just bright red paint), but i still wouldnt recommend watching this if you can't handle a good amount of gore
the film doesn't really comment on it, but there's a male character who is shown kissing a man's corpse and appears to get pleasure from being hit by a man, and he dies, so maybe?