Carnival of Souls (1962)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055830/?ref_=nv_sr_3
A car full of dudes pulls
up next to a car full of chicks and they decide to race. Everything goes fine
until the two cars pull onto a bridge and the dudes start doing some bumping.
This sends the girls car over the railings and into the river. Opening credits. The driver of the guy’s car
is interviewed by the cops and tells them that they just lost control.
Authorities can't find the
car but randomly a chick comes out of the water after what must be hours. Her
name is Mary and she's leaving town to take the job as an organist somewhere
else. That’s a lot to think about over a few days. While driving through Utah to her new home,
she sees the face of a man looking into her window and another creepy figure in
the middle of the road. When Mary arrives to her new apartment she witnesses
the face there too. On the way into town she passes an old abandoned carnival,
which I am assuming is full of souls.
Falling in water with your clothes on is always funny.
Lets see, her neighbor
across the hall tries to hit on her and she goes to the mall one day and
randomly no one can see or hear her. Maybe she's dead. Whatever it is, I’m sure
it’s just the normal things we all deal with.
She keeps seeing the creepy guy everywhere but she's the only one. Mary
eventually attracts the attention of a psychiatrist by acting goofy at a water
fountain and he connects her problems to old carnival. That sounds good enough to her and she takes
a trip out there. After much investigating she finds it to be a ghost town
except for when she throws a stone in the lake and it lands on the creepy guy
who’s face she keeps seeing’s body but she misses it.
Peek-a-Boo!
Some time later Mary goes
into a trance while at work and plays creepy organ music, which seems to wake
up carnival zombies. They are legitimately creepy, especially the main
one. The priest pops in and thinks the
music is evil which causes him to fire her on the spot. Right as she is leaving, her neighbor picks
her up to go on a date to which she is understandably not into. They head back to their building and he
drunkenly asks for the date to keeping going towards the bedroom
How emo is this guy?
He comes up from behind
her and lays a kiss on her neck but the only thing is in the mirror the old man
from the carnival is doing the kissing.
She freaks out and says zombies are after her. Smartly, the neighbor decides he doesn’t need
that kind of crazy and heads back to his room.
Tearfully Mary calls after him saying that she doesn’t want to be left
alone.
Mary leaves town but has a
problem with her car causing her to drive it to a shop. She stays in her car as it’s raised on the
lift meaning she’s stuck up there.
Someone creeps into the building and lowers the lift. Mary runs to the bus station and the thing
where no once can see or hear her happens again. Over the intercom she hears that a bus is
loading and when she gets on it she finds that its full incredibly creepy
smiling zombies. Mary gets away and runs
all around the city only to be ignored by everyone. She rushes to the doctor’s office and tells
him that he’s her only hope. His chair
is turned and slowly he faces the camera to show us that it’s the zombie and he
pulls out a creepy smile. Luckily for Mary,
it’s all a dream.
Scariest thing I've seen all month, no joke.
It’s back to the carnival
for Mary who is still in need of answers.
One needs to be to how did I end up in Utah. The zombies all come out of the lake and
eerily dance around while Mary watches.
She watches a zombie version of her dancing with the creepy guy. Mary screams while running away and is now
chased by the zombies. She falls and the
cameras turn to black. The next scene
shows the police examining the carnival where she was last seen. Footprints lead up to her location and then
nothing. They also finally found the car
that the chicks crashed off the bridge on and what do you know, Mary is inside
there. She was dead the whole time and
didn’t know it.
Favorite Scene: Mary
standing at the carnival watching herself dance with the main zombie. Eeek!
Memorable Lines: “I don’t
belong in the world”
“Expert” Reviews: Jonathan
Rosenbaum says “There isn't very much here to sustain interest.” I can say
the same about you.
Steve Crum says “Much overrated horror, not even minor
classic in this corner” Really Steve?
Not even a little good?
Rating: 7.1 Milky Ways.
The middle of this movie is sloooooooow but the last 20 minutes or so
are so good that it still gets a high rating.
The twist is predictable but still pretty cool for 1962. The zombies were terrifying for having no
effects and the actual carnival looks good.
The movie is only 78 minutes long but still dragged. I’d watch it again
Alternate Ending: Mary spends more than 10 minutes at the
carnival. She is trapped there and has
to stay there until they find the car in the river.
What I would do if I were the main character: Get an
exorcism
What happens in the sequel: I would love to see a prequel
about how things went so bad at the carnival.
Catching up
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