Rating of
3/4
Halloween review
Matthew Brady - wrote on 10/31/15
Mary Henry: "It's funny... the world is so different in the daylight. In the dark, your fantasies get so out of hand. But in the daylight everything falls back into place again".
The story in Carnival of Souls is about a young woman who survives an auto accident, she moves West to take a church organist's position. But her haunting visions draw her irretrievably to an abandoned fairgrounds.
Never before have I watched a movie that made me feel so uncomfortable and spooked out like Carnival of Souls. This 60's spook fest as a cult following behind it, since it wasn't owned by any big name studios and yes this wasn't owned by any studio, so when the movie began it didn't have any big movie studio logos all over it, it just starts. I find it quite unique that a movie with a low budget like this could make a fantastic horror movie with one of the most chilling atmosphere I've ever seen.
Carnival of Souls feels like a Twilight Zone episode and I'm saying that in a good way, because if this was actually a Twilight Zone episode it might be the most terrifying episode of all time. I think it's taking inspiration from some of the old episodes and it's good to take inspiration from something if you can pull it off.
I don't want to give away too much about the movie as I want you to watch it just like I did by knowing nothing. It really helps the movie experience.
Overall Carnival of Souls is a movie worth checking out on Halloween. The directing was great, the musics creepy, the atmosphere is unsettling and the cinematography is haunting but beautiful at the same time. This is one of the most overlooked psychology film ever made and it's absolutely worth checking.
