CIRCUS of Horrors, the show that stormed into the finals of Britain’s Got Talent and is now a West End smash hit is back in Dorset on Friday, January 9, to mark its 20th anniversary in spectacular style.

It is now back in a new format with The Night Of The Zombie at Poole’s Lighthouse.

Last year saw another giant leap for the Circus of Horrors when it began a series of dates in London’s West End, becoming the first circus to appear in a West End Theatre for 100 years.

The show started its gruesome beginnings at the 1995 Glaston-bury Festival and became an instant hit, touring all over the world from Chile to Chatham, Argentina to Aberdeen and Japan to Jersey, including festival appearances with Alice Cooper, Eminem, Motley Crue, Oasis, Iron Maiden, The Manic St Preachers, Marilyn Manson and many more.

Appearances on TV shows including The Slammer, Day-break, Fairground Attractions, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Body Shockers, Fake Reaction, This Morning, Ant and Dec, The One Show and A Royal Command Performance have turned what set out as a cult show into a household name.

The latest incarnation The Night Of The Zombie’ is set in 2020 in a decrepit & corpse-ridden London, plagued by a swarm of Zombies.

The story twists and turns with grisly murders and sensational shocks – all interwoven with some of the greatest and most bizarre circus acts on earth – sword swallowers, knife throwers, daredevil bal-ancing acts, astounding aerial-ists, a demon dwarf, a Guinness World Record holding ‘hair-culian’ hair hanging beauty, Sinister Sisters, gyrating and fire limboing acrobats and much more.

The Circus of Horrors is performed by an almighty cast with a forked tongue firmly in each cheek and the devil driver rock ‘n’ roll of Dr Haze and the Interceptors from Hell on Friday January 9 from 8pm.