[ April 25, 2024 ]
Tonight's feature is a Halloween favorite, Carnival of Souls, a cult classic made for the ridiculous sum of $30,000. "But despite its flaws, 'Carnival of Souls' is more than just a mere curiosity. Its portrait of a lonely, intrepid rationalist besieged by spirits carries an eerie chill."
What has earned ''Carnival of Souls'' its reputation is the director's knack for building a mood of fatalistic angst in the story of Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss), a flinty, taciturn organist with Loretta Young cheekbones and a taste for macabre, expressionist keyboard music. After emerging miraculously unscathed from an auto accident that killed both her companions when their car plunged off a bridge, Mary decides to start life over in a new town, in a new job as a church organist. Her change of locale turns into a ''Twilight Zone''-like journey into another plane.
Story continues below advertisementAlmost from the moment she hits the road, alone in her car, Mary finds herself stalked by a ghoul who is invisible to all but her. She also senses that in some mysterious way he is connected to an abandoned pavilion that she first spies in the distance while driving and whose silhouetted domes awake in her a strange, thirsty curiosity.
From the opening credits that are slanted across the screen at odd angles, to shots of an entranced Mary playing demented organ music in an empty church, to Sidney Berger's leering portrayal of the wolfish lout who occupies the same rooming house, the movie colors everything from a faintly menacing, twisted perspective. (NY Times)
Getting into the Halloween spirit is so easy, because we are living in the era of the ghoul, the exaltation of the bloodsuckers. So every day is halloween.
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4 Comments
13 years ago
This film has some extrememely bad acting by two of the male characters–one laughably so. The only decent actor, in fact, is the female lead. Despite this, it’s an unsettling, moving story. I have seen it two or three times.
13 years ago
Split decision either way with ‘Plan Nine From Outer Space’ as greatest movie ever..
13 years ago
SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! The stilted acting, poor film stock etc. enhance the atmosphere of this sublimely creepy cheapie. The surprise ending can never be used again having been expertly re-hashed in both Sixth Sense and my own favorite for atmosphere – The Others. For some reason, the best surprise endings are the ones that don’t come from ‘out of nowhere’ but are something you kind of subconsciously knew all along.
13 years ago
“Almost from the moment she hits the road, alone in her car, Mary finds herself stalked by a ghoul named Imom Rauf who is invisible to all but her. She also senses that in some mysterious way he is connected to an abandoned Mosque that she first spies in the distance while driving and whose silhouetted domes awake in her a strange, thirsty curiosity.”-Pamela with a little editing by moi
The pavilion reminds me of a Mosque, and the head ghoul (the one looking in the car windshield window, in the rooming house window etc.) looks like Imom Rauf in his pointy shawl costume. The ghoul looks very similar to Rauf’s picture, the one of him in front of the proposed ground zero Mosque.
