Carnival Of Souls (1962) - Part 11 of 11

Carnival of Souls (1962)
Director: Herk Harvey

Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around with two friends but everything goes wrong when challenged to a drag race and their car gets forced off of a bridge. The car sinks into the murky depths, and all three women are assumed drowned. Some time later Mary emerges unscathed from the river. She tries to start a new life by becoming a church organist but Mary finds herself haunted by a ghostly figure that instills fear and dread into her.

* This movie is Public Domain. It can be downloaded from the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/CarnivalofSouls

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[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.

[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.

[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.

[zenarcade64]

A Masterpeice!

[mrmagpie21]

Such a shitty film, god people have awful taste.

[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.

[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?