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Carnival of Souls

She Escaped Death. Now It Wants Her Back!

7.0 / 10

78 minutes

1962-11-02

English

US

Actors :

Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey, Sidney Berger, Frances Feist, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt, Tom McGinnis, Forbes Caldwell, Dan Palmquist, Bill de Jarnette, Steve Boozer, Pamela Ballard, Larry Sneegas, Cari Conboy, Karen Pyles

Description

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

Reviews

John Chard

John Chard

5/16/2024, 3:22:04 PM

We open with a car crash... Mary and her two friends leave the road and fly off a bridge during a friendly dragster race. She is the only survivor and after her recovery she takes up a job as the church organist in a new town, but she is constantly blighted by a ghostly like visitor and periods of time when nobody seems to know she exists. A hinted spoiler follows. Carnival Of Souls has t...

Wuchak

Wuchak

2/15/2022, 7:44:38 PM

_**Haunting early 60's movie, like an extended episode of The Twilight Zone**_ A young woman (Candace Hilligoss) survives a vehicle accident in Lawrence, Kansas, and then is troubled by a specter (director Herk Harvey) and other strange occurrences as she moves to the Great Salt Lake region for a gig as a church organist. "Carnival of Souls" (1962) is an eerie, moody cult flick shot in B&W, ...

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

5/6/2023, 5:35:59 AM

When two groups of teenagers are racing their cars over a narrow bridge, an accident occurs and the car carrying the girls goes a-tumbling into the deep and muddy river below. It's during the extensive search process (a man with a bit of string with a weight tied to it) that "Mary" (Candice Hilligoss) emerges from the river, the sole survivor. Gradually, though, things start to become ambiguous - ...

Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

6/17/2023, 2:54:18 PM

**Even bad movies deserve to have a place in history.** After seeing this movie, I'm left with the feeling that it's a bit overrated, even though it's undoubtedly a remarkable classic of psychological horror. It's more rudimentary than one would expect, and the lack of means and resources is evident. On a very tight budget, director Herk Harvey deserves praise for the way he made the most of wh...