Carnival of Souls (1962)
Carnival of Souls (1962)Directed by Herk Harvey
Candace Hilligoss .... Mary Henry
Frances Feist .... Mrs. Thomas, Landlady
Sidney Berger .... John Linden
Art Ellison .... Minister
It's truly life after death ... The Carnival of Souls is a low budget independent film made in 1962. It is categorized as a horror film but unlike the horror movies today, there is no blood /gory violence ... I believe it was rated G when it first came out ... The movie begins with Mary Henry (Hilligoss) surviving a drag race, in which her two friends died when the car accidentally plunges into the water below. After the incident, Mary is determined to leave the small town in Kansas and work in Salt Lake City (yes, as though that is any better ...) as an organist for a church ("She can moves souls with the organs .. or something to that extent .. says the minister). While in Salt Lake, she is attracted to an abandon carnival and is haunted by an apparation. She soon begins to experience bizzare occurances where no one can hear her or see her .. as though "[she doesn't] belong in the world". Eventually, it leads us to the climax where the apparations (yes, now there are more than one) are chasing her ... all the way to the beach ... and then ... nowhere. [SPOILERS] although one can pretty much sees it near the end .... her soul is 'collected' ... she realizes she's dead when she sees her corpse with the carnival of souls ... the 'living' people realizes it when the car is lifted and found not two but three bodies ... [END SPOILERS] Well, the film had me fooled for a while because i thought it is the ghost who wants Mary's help ... seeing that she did survive a car crash and might have had connections with the other side ... and there is also a shot of the ghoul beneath the water, which might suggests (to me anyways) that he was drowned and is asking her to identify the body ... then there are the 'carnival of souls' and they look very much in the 20s and so i also thought that perhaps there was a horrific accident that occured ... but then wouldn't the people in the city know about it? So, I've deducted that Mary must be extremely strong-willed and that she refuses to believe she has passed away ... her will is so strong that living beings were able to see her as well ... Plus, contrary to other movies dealings with ghosts .. the church has nothing on her (as she ironically works in one) ... Still, what makes this movie work is due in part to the eerie organ music that can be heard throughout the film ... hear music = something must happen! It's mostly the anticipation and rarely the action that scares most people anyways ... (take Psycho for instance) ...
7.5/10 - I am not a fan of horror films but this one seems to work .. the film starts out really quickly, the crash before the credits even .. slows down int he middle and really picks up in the end .. with no blood or weapons in between :>
posted by Dairy Fairy @ 12:02 a.m.
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This is my first "comment" on your movie review. But well, it has nothing to do with movies, lol. Maybe it does, but marginally, haha.
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