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| Drawn, eerie and not even lying (!) poster for Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls |
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After a car accident, Mary, our organ player heroine, moves to small time America, where she soon finds herself in a frightening alone-in-the-world soul limbo!
Despite miserable sound quality, an at times inordinately scratching, - but atmospheric, - organ music score and a weirdly abrupt beginning, Carnival of Souls has an intensely discomforting air to it. It presents a creeping, Twilight Zone-reminiscent situation that will crawl under your skin!
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| Beautiful, despairing Candace Hilligoss in Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls |
Candace Hilligoss (The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964)) plays well and is very beautiful in this weird, nightmarish film by Herk Harvey, an infomercial director behind short documentaries like What About Prejudice? (1959). He also stars in the film as the main male ghoul:
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| Herk Harvey in his own film, Carnival of Souls |
Harvey never made another feature, but boy, the one he made is inspired!
It was made on a mere 33,000 $ budget with a crew of just 5 people besides Harvey himself. It wasn't highly regarded at its release, but has since been remembered by many and grown through TV airings and video and DVD releases, and is now something of a psychological horror cult movie. It is in public domain and can be seen free and legally here.
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Watch the great, original trailer here
Carnival of Souls has even made itself into this unofficial, alternate music video for Lana Del Rey's Video Games
Budget: 33,000 $
Box office: Unknown
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