Carnival of Souls

United States

1962

83 Min

Black and White

1.33:1

English

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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CAST Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feiss, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt, Herk Harvey

ED Dan Palmquist, Bill de Jarnette

Herk Harvey’s macabre masterpiece gained a cult following through late night television and has been bootlegged for years. Made by industrial filmmakers on a modest budget, Carnival of Souls was intended to have the “look of a Bergman” and “feel of a Cocteau,” and succeeds with its strikingly used locations and spooky organ score. Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) survives a drag race in a rural Kansas town, then takes a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her to an abandoned lakeside pavilion. —The Criterion Collection

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ElTigreNegro

7Mar13

The only film from a documentary director, it has become a cult classic for all the right reasons. Few movies have give me the creeps, this is one of them. Haunting movie that has stood the test of time far better than other horror movies.

Scott Barley

25Feb13

Terrible sound, some poor acting and dialogue... And yet, this film is wonderful. Overflowing with macabre atmosphere, this may be, despite all its flaws, a masterwork of the horror genre. A peculiar film indeed.

Frankly, Mr. Shankly

13Jan13

Like a nightmarish Carl Th. Dreyer. Candace's expressions of absolute terror, the magnificent contrast between black and white and the terrifying score evokes one of the scariest flicks from the sixties. My only complain is about the bad narrative and some mechanical acting. Could've been a masterpiece.

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