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Post by fridayfan1979 on Jun 7, 2007 20:47:04 GMT -5
Young Mary Henry and her friends are out for a drive on a care-free day when they're challenged to a drag race. Foolishly accepting, the girls lose control and careen off a bridge and into the river below. All of the girls are presumed dead until Mary miraculously emerges sometime later. She moves to a new town and accepts a job as an organist at a local church. Soon thereafter, she begins to see a ghoulish figure that no one else seems to see and is strangely attracted to a closed down, spooky amusement park. Is Mary simply suffering from psychological trauma from the car crash or is there something more?
Made in 1962 for a miniscule $15,000.00, this movie proves that a big budget is not needed to scare the audience. Forty five years later, this movie still has the power to disturb.
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Post by Teenage Frankenstein on Oct 6, 2007 3:08:27 GMT -5
classic, classic film-
the ending has been ripped- off /pilaged by more films than i care to mention- even though it was itself inspired by a Twilight Zone episode 2 years prior entitled the Hitchhiker based on the short story of the same name.
Carnival of Souls was one of the films (along with Night of the Living Dead of course) that made me realise in my mid teens of how powerfull and eerie Black and White horror films could be- and what i'd been missing out on.
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