Carnival Of Souls (1962) - Part 11 of 11

[mrmagpie21]

Such a shitty film, god people have awful taste.

[k00ki3izkrazy]

i burst out laughing wen the dr. turned around n she screamed all funny hahaha :D

[TrainerJim22]

I first saw this movie when I was a kid in the hospital and it was on TV. I was alone in the room and this was very scary. Now that I see it again, I think that the girl was always dead, her soul was just wandering around while they were searching for the body. It's funny, though, how she is able to talk to some people and not to others. And she manages to get a room and a job as an organist. Guess her soul was trying to fit in! The Twilight Zone was a good comparison.

[50zcarsman]

My take is that she survives the wreck, but knows she "should" have died and her soul is trapped in a netherworld, awaiting the fate of the body to be resolved. Note that her emotions are largely flat, that she is able to connect with no one of the living world (since she is soulless, lost). The Man & his cohorts, who are incorporeal (and, perhaps, creations of her own troubled mind) come after her to square things and put her back where she should have been. Msg: you cannot escape your fate.

[2D23Dconversions]

A great classic spooky film that still has the power to haunt.

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[fearless1819]

This scene is the most scariest and creepiest scene in the whole movie!

[uruseiranma]

The way the organ plays, it almost feels much of the time like the movie could have been a silent film with the moody black-and-white shots.

In a way, she does seem not on the same wavelength as others. It seems that many times she talks and noone listens, and when people talk, she doesn't seem to listen.

I swear I went to bed last night thinking about that Pavilion after seeing the film. That first shot of it silhouetted against the sky is a perfect introduction.

[dantesbuttock]

In many ways this feels like a feature length Twilight Zone ep. Not a bad thing, of course.

[agwoodliffe]

The way I see, there are 2 ways of interpreting the ending:

1) She had been dead the entire time, and it's her 'soul' that the people in black are pursuing.

2) She had survived the accident, and the people in black put her back in the car in the lake.

What do you guys think?

[SystemJammer]

@agwoodliffe Maybe I've seen too many variations of this twist, but I saw it coming the moment she walked right out of that river. I kept thinking: yet another "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". It was creepy and desolate, though.

[brgvt97]

This is one of my favorite horror movies EVER.

[veganbond]

like the end of LOST she needed to let go, and move on

[newguy90]

She didn't let go so much as ended up being dragged to the grave kicking and screaming.

[sdblosom]

@newguy90

Ha ha, that's right! Crazy awesome ending.

Reminds me of The Twilight Zone, very forward thinking.

[inconceivabledark]

absoloutley AWESOME! one of the granddaddies of all the modern day horrors! just great!

[gi11fb]

anyone know the mane of the store across from the station?

[verbusen]

I was stuck between life and death once.......thankfully this movie then ended.

This was a drive in version of some Twilight Zone episodes I thought were much better, the one with the mannequin who was alive, and also the episode with the sub sailor who was the sole survivor of his dead subs crew. Oh and that one with Robert Redford as a cop and the old shut in lady.

Thanks for posting, it "killed" some time.

[wingedeathnoisewave]

i can definitely see the comparison to those twilight zone episodes, and yes, they were better.. however, i think compared to most pre-'70's horror this has really held up well! only ones that i can think of that were better: the haunting, night of the demon, the innocents, freaks, black sunday.. overall i thought this was really good, and pretty creepy

[verbusen]

hey thats cool, at least you are constructive in your comments, most here are too involved in things to think clearly. You left out Night Of The Living Dead which this film had an influence on. Rosemary's Baby THAT was a good flick. Lots of Italian horror films and how about those Karloff films and even his TV show Thriller? there is actually a lot of material out there that is better then this but I can say I saw it if I ever meet any one who cares (doubtful unless I go to a Goth nightclub).

[lloyd614]

Hands Down!

One of the BEST psychological thrillers! The part where the dead were chasing her in broad daylight pretty much scared the CRAP out of me! It plays with your mind in a very bothersome and pleasing way! Hopefully film makers today will take note!

[verbusen]

you were really scared? hmmmm You must never have watched Casper the Friendly Ghost as a kid, you'd had been committed!

[dnggitg]

I love it when the two 47-ish, bespectacled authority figures--the doctor and the clergyman--exchange somber, bewildered looks. If they can't explain this phenomenon, it's inexplicable!

[12dave9]

There were a few tv movies filmed there in the late 80's but that was the 'new'rebuilt Saltair.One was with Victoria Principal where she played a blind woman.

[12dave9]

This is a classic film and it also gave me nightmares as a child,this scene was filmed in the studio in Kansas City.

[slayerette86m]

So cheap and so good. This is realy filmmaking: working with what you got and making an interesting movie.

[julikzhulik]

Alright! Now I understand what this movie was about - a poor little undead who got lost...

[CHRISMED2]

kinda like the movie Jacobs Ladder isnt it??

[KahnBB6]

Great psychological horror film. Even the film's score is just a continuous, pervading sense of dread throughout no matter what is happening-- like an emotional mirror to what is actually going on with the heroine rather than just each scene.

It's sad that Mr. Harvey never made another.

[Skitllyes]

what a great ending. this is what real horror is

[coachfb18]

True Horror Film!

[13GhoulScouts]

Excellent piece of work, I'm glad some of us here can appreciate it.! Thanks for uploading, Been meaning to see it for a while.

[atomicwendy]

this is one very brilliant film. I'm not easily scared, but this one scared me and scarred me. excellent film. really excellent.

[CROMPTON761]

Thank you for sharing.

[anametaken]

This scene was the creepiest piece of film that haunted me in my childhood. I saw it when I was nine and had nightmares of heads coming up out of the floor. I never saw it again or knew the name of the movie until a few years ago when I saw it again on Halloween. Its like facing my fear...I then saw that it was made the year I was born.

[serialhag76]

Mary Henry is my inspiration. To live or not to live? TORN!

[revengeofcleveland]

4 out of 5 stars not bad not bad at all for 30 grand and one professional actress..

[texasB666]

an absolute must for any horror fan ,wayyyy ahead of it's time ,scary ,very creepy movie...the main actress is sooooo pretty ,i love her ,a very good and creative script and montage ...i think that many known directors of today were inspired by this flick ! cheers and thx for posting dude ,worship sabbath \m/

[Laurisa718]

A masterpiece!! What a great movie this was; it was far beyond it's time! Great movie!

Thank you for sharing!

[AtwistedNether]

I love how her hair is flawless in the ending scene.

[RubyTuesday717]

If I ever saw anyone who looked at me the way Herk Harvey (the director who also plays The Man) looks at the camera, I'd run away in fear.

This is possibly the creepiest film I've ever seen--it beats any of the torture porn films like SAW that people flock to today; when will people get it through their heads that gore doesn't equal true terror?

[Chernolapkin]

You are absolutely right.

The best horror films never had any overt violence..... it was the atmosphere that did the trick.

Most modern horror films are an insult to the genre.

[soulierinvestments]

I wonder if Saltaire Resort ever got used as a backdrop in a movie in the days before it became an abandoned derelict?

[newguy90]

From my own research, no it didn't. The two World Wars, The Great Depression, and having been burned down once (Saltair had a 2nd fire in 1970 that completely destroyed it) probably had something to do with that. If anything, movies and television were what eventually killed the Saltair Pavilion.

[SlasherTV2]

horror masterpiece, it is SO FREAKING CREEPY!!! GOOSEBUMPS!!! kinda of a confusing movie, but awesome!!

[tricia2mauime]

I think the majority of the movie was in purgatory. The people helping her were angels and the ghouls were demons. Both sides battling over her soul.

[Raptor982]

If you notice at the end, one of the ladies blinks her eye.

[adnap123]

Great Movie!

[mljbunny]

i like the movie, but i am kind of confused. if she drowned, how did she interact with the living?

[Ultrasecond]

Man, this really is the stuff of nightmares. Say what you will about the film, but when that organ music plays and you're in that decrepit carnival, it's just so unnerving.

[AtwistedNether]

such a nice place, they rebuilt it and its a concert hall for rock bands and such

[shellymorrison]

My take is that she didn't survive the wreck, but her soul didn't realize that she was actually dead, hence, she was still living in a way, if that makes any sense... I also think the Man was like Death, trying to recapture her soul, perhaps to add it to his group of dancing souls. Perhaps?

[peteron3]

Hi

I like the idea of "death" trying to recaputure her....good call, also great movie.

[peteron3]

Her meeting the living may have been the previous/last days of her life flashing in front of her, in and out of consciousness as she drowned trapped in the car, she did feel the guilt, as the job as an organist had no religious connection to her, it was just a job.....i think???

[champolaglow]

great analysis you made

congratulations

[huskyjerk]

So what is the gist of this story? Was it just her conscience that was living as an organist, while she was really dead? Was it a guilt that her soul was expressing? She never survived the wreck, so what was the interaction with the living all about?

[zenarcade64]

A Masterpeice!