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Carnival of Souls (Digitally remastered in colour) [DVD] [1962]

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  • Actors: Candace Hilligoss, Sidney Berger, Frances Feist, Herk Harvey
  • Directors: Herk Harvey
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: E1 Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 7 Sept. 2009
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B002DFE09W
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 91,439 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Candice Hilligoss stars as a woman who survives a serious car accident and moves to Utah to become a church organist. She is pursued there by a strange phantom figure (Herk Harvey, who also directs and produces).

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Having survived a car accident that should have claimed her life, Mary begins a new job as a church organist. Plagued by evil visions of a ghoulish figure, she is drawn to an abandoned amusement park. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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I saw this years ago when BBC 2 ran a late night art house movie strand on Sundays and it has stayed with me ever since. The plot concerns a young woman who has survived a car accident taking up her new job in a small Midwestern town. It is genuinely chilling, creates an otherworldy, unsettling mood with the use of silence, the spiky organ score, a supporting cast of predatory grotesques and bleached black and white cinematography. It also bears comparison with Polanski's 'Repulsion' as a study in isolation and a vulnerable innocent's fast slipping grip on reality; or what she thinks is reality. The climax in the abandoned fairground is deeply spooky, sad and satisfying in equal measure. And on top of all this it has a classic 'jump out of your seat' shock as the heroine drives through a rainy night and looks twice at her reflection in the car's windscreen...
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This film was rediscovered in the 80's and featured on the BBC series "Videodrome". Without wanting to spoil the plot I'll just say that it's a genuinely creepy story that directly inspired George Romero's 1968 Night of the Living Dead. The plot focuses on Candace Hillgoss as a beautiful but cold church organist (Who is actually non-religious and just plays for money).In the opening scenes we see that she is the only girl to survive when a car filled with her and some friends careers off a bridge. She makes it to shore. From then on she is disturbed by stange nightmares and visions centering on a long abandoned funfair and it's pale inhabitants. That's all the plot I'm going to give away. If you love strange films then I cannot urge you enough to buy this one. As in the original Night of the Living Dead (and for that matter Psycho) the black and white photography only adds to the surrealism and detracts nothing from the plot or the genuine sense of unease that unfolds as the film plays.
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By schumann_bg TOP 50 REVIEWER on 20 Jun. 2015
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Carnival Of Souls is an outstanding film, really, in the macabre genre. The plot is very simple: a young woman who seems to have drowned in a car accident emerges from the water and goes into town where she takes up a post as an organist, but she is plagued by visions of a zombie-like man whom she alone sees, and finds herself increasingly cut off from human contact, becoming, for spells, invisible and inaudible to others. Meanwhile she is prey to the very corporeal interest of her neighbour. The interest of the film lies in its almost expressionistic photography, the organ music which is heard throughout, and the casting of Candace Hilligoss, who is uncannily good in the lead role. Facially she's a bit like a blonde Lola, but she doesn't dance and doesn't have the French girl's ability to charm everyone and be like a magnet - she only draws undesirables. This seaside town also has a disused pier which she is compelled to go to; each time, the organ music increasing in its eerie intensity as she strays further from normal life, although it adds to the feeling of being off-kilter that the film has all along. None of the dialogues feel quite right. It bears a resemblance to Psycho made two years earlier, and Faster, Pussycat! Kill, Kill! (1965), while having a clear influence on the whole zombie genre that came after, and it does pass in a flash, a clear sign that it casts a potent, low-budget spell. The Elstree Hill print leaves quite a lot to be desired in terms of clarity - I've rarely seen a release this blurred.
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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.

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Carnival Of Souls has thankfully found a whole new audience in the new millennium, the advent of cheap triple pack DVDs and a lush Criterion release have brought it firmly to the attention of Horror/Ghost fans who were not aware that the film even existed. That said, there is no doubting that many big name directors were fully aware of it, tho, for Carnival Of Souls has influenced such luminary genre masters from Romero to Carpenter, and from Hooper to Shyamalan, be it the low budget DIY ethic, or its now genre staple twist ending, it's a film (along with it's director Herk Harvey) that is referenced as much as it is copied.

The tag often used for the film is that it's an elongated Twilight Zone episode, and sure enough I think that is a perfect fit. Its whole structure feels like a part of that wonderful and amazing Rod Serling show, and for sure this story owes a doff of the cap to An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge (an Ambrose Bierce short that was reworked and used on Serling's show), but to merely suggest a retread of a previously used idea would be very unfair. Carnival Of Souls is full of eerie sequences that are dream like in quality yet goose pimply in effect. Scored at frequent intervals by a jangling organ shrill, the ghostly phantoms that plague poor Mary actually bring a shiver to the spine; while a surrealistic dance of the carnival is a stunning eerie highlight.
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