Carnival of Souls -- What Makes This Movie Great? (Episode 32)
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Praised for its editing and cinematography, "Carnival of Souls" is one of the more underrated movies ever made. Why should you watch it?
In this video, I'll discuss how and why Carnival of Souls matters. Directed by Herk Harvey, the movie touches on paranoia, schizophrenia, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, asexuality -- all in just 70 minutes!
We'll also discuss how the movie relates to later horror movies, including George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
It's Carnival of Souls, episode 32 in my series "What Makes This Movie Great?"!
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It is both unsettling and comforting to watch. One of my favorite films.
Carnival of Souls is one of my favorite horror movies. The creepy music and imagery, the use of desolate places, it's nightmare-like quality. I first saw this on TV late at night in the 90's and it's has stayed with me ever since.
I was forced to watch this movie in the late 60s by an alcoholic aunt I was staying with overnight. I was only 12 years old. Although she initially promised I could sleep in the same room with her, when the movie had finished I was made to sleep in a room far from hers, in her large home. It was one of the most terrifying nights of my life and this movie has stayed with me all these years. Great review btw x
this sounds like a nightmare almost worse than the movie!
@@LearningaboutMovies that is such a bizarre story haha
Hey, maybe we should shoot a movie based on this woman's experiences at that creepy aunts house as a 12 yr old! Small independent B&W production, just like Carnival of Souls.
You'd have a big old dark drafty house like that one the Carnival woman roomed in. Only with this 12 yr old girl, genuinely creepy real stuff happens to her after the Aunts passed out drunk.
The ending wouldn't even be that important. Maybe just have the Manson family come in and start helter skeltering people. Have your people call my people we'll do lunch at Cecconi's.
jeezz
I too was around 12 when I first saw carnival of souls. It was and still is the scariest movie. I couldn't sleep for 3 night after seeing it.
I wish that Herk Harvey could have gone on with more of his ideas in his movies, he sounded like a genuinely nice person who made a movie for what was even then a pittance, and one that has held ever since then.
yes!
If he hadn't messed up and forgot to put a copyright on the US print, which made the movie go into the public domain immediately, I think he could have made at least enough to promote the movie more.
@@Brooklyn_Ann Strangely, George Romero had that same copyright issue making Night Of The Living Dead an instant Public Domain movie.
As a kid born in 64 , later on on the 70s I watched this with my mom, she would call the movie in spanish "the little pebble " scary movie . Because of the scene where the girl throws the pebble in water where the dead soul is.
This movie haunted and stayed with me like the shining has, you have to be sensitive to unusual beauty to appreciate this film. It's a great FILM of the 60s indeed.RIP and I love u mom.
The set location fascinated me... the abandoned amusement park resort (Saltair II) on the end of a pier in a receded salt lake...rendering it a pretty hellish location. Interesting history to read about.
Herk Harvey Was A Genius. I Love The Twist. Her Soul Wanted To Live But As A Hermit Type, But It Was Her Time To Go. And The Carnival Is Perfect, I Love The Isolation, And Quietness, Like A Whole Another World
The atmosphere of this film is so eerie and dreamlike and the amateur actors really help bring that out
It was a huge inspiration for one of my earliest novels
In the 70’s my Dad saw this and never forgot it. He and I bought the Criterion release of it and watched it only a few days ago. I really agree that this is really such a unique and important movie and it’s amazing what could be accomplished with such a low budget. While it has had its revival of interest it’s sad to think that it will likely never be thought of in the same vein as Night Of The Living Dead or many of the other films it helped inspired. George Romero has openly stated that this movie was a great inspiration for his own Night Of The Living Dead and it does show.
excellent, thank you! this movie is proof that sound can be everything, so vastly important to a movie's aesthetic and possible meanings that overlooking it (or just not hearing it) is unhelpful.
Researching Night Of The Living Dead serves to introduce people to Carnival Of Souls. It did for me.
First time I saw 'Carnival of Souls' I was sure that Scandinavian actress was the same person as both Sandy Dennis from 'Days of Wine and Roses', and Judith O'Dea from 'Night of the Living Dead'. Didn't have wikipedia back in them days.
What a wonderful movie to discover on late night television.
Fantastic and haunting film that will never leave you. Creepy sound track as well. Great unpredictable story too. The Dead will have their own.
When I was 8 yrs old I snuck out of bed to catch part of the movie on a Creature Features episode in the late 70s. For days I kept having nightmares they stopped after a while. For years into my teen years I kept thinking about the dancing dead scene & I couldn't remember if I dreamt it or if I was going insane. One afternoon I ended up changing channels & wouldn't you know that exact scene was being played!! Scared me on 2 levels, one is the perfect timing & the other was reliving a childhood nightmare. One of the freakiest moments of my life. I love love love this movie to death
I left part of my psyche back there in 1963 when I watched this alone and late late at night on our little black-and-white television set that was the first one our little family ever had.
heh, it would've scared so many kids...
@@LearningaboutMovies When did it get sold to TV? I lot got sold very quickly . . . .
I like the review and the tribute, but I've seen a couple of interviews with Herk Harvey who was a modest, pleasant, un-mysterious guy from Kansas who made industrial films and was good at it. It seems to me he just wanted to try his hand at something a bit more artful than films about VD or processing canned corn. He had no pretensions of making something with deep pyschological and/or religious implications. He chuckled at such notions. To paraphrase him, he just wanted to make something that looked good and might send chills up the spine. And he definitely succeeded in a surprisingly imaginative, technically proficient, and influential way... on a miniscule budget (example: it cost something like $12 to fix the bridge he pushed the car off). Ms. Hilligoss also deserves kudos for helping make it all work.
This film is like when that high school football team really gets it together and challenges an NFL team. I like your review because it was straight to the point and you mainly mention the strengths of the film, which I agree with. I think it is also good to know that this Herk Harvy's only film that he directed. While I think the film is flawed, I really applaud a first effort that is as good as this. He continued a successful career as an instructor at University of Kansas and directed theater. He also did some acting, screen writing, and producing for TV as well. He stars in Carneval of Souls as "The Man". I think it is worth knowing a little bit about him since he did fulfill a non-speaking role in this film Also, the production only cost $33,000 and was shot in both Lawrence, Kansas and Salt Lake City, Utah. It was a great use of the Pavillions at the Salt Lake. I think that is where many of the best shots are. Although, there are some good shots in the boarding room as well. I really think what damages this film is the acting, which is sometimes silly. The dialogue is at times good and other times bad. Due to the limited budget, I think that forced them to film at the city park in SLC as well as the maintenance garage, which kind of looked illogical. Again, the strengths are as you say was to capture of the mise-en-scene technique of Ingmar Bergmann. I really do not like the colorized version of this film. The black and white imagery is great for shadows, light and darkness, and it kind of makes it look creepier.
This movie gave me the heebie-jeebies when I saw it as a kid. I've rewatched it several times as an adult and I agree that this movie is a masterpiece. Great camera work, editing and sound. Further, a great twist ending.
One of the best horror movies ever!! Often imitated never duplicated!...or matched. So very atmospheric
some other interesting aspects are the meta nature of the organ music in the score, and then the fact she herself plays the organ. there is her disconnected relation with religion. the liminal space of the abandoned bathhouse/carnival house is cool. the title itself, 'carnival of souls' is also excellent. the minimal and sparse early 1960s highways are also attractive for the theme. having her half recognized and half invisible also a nice ambiguity, as well as the ending. once again, the effort put into the visuals in this movie is top quality.
This is the most artistic horror films i'ver seen. It actually reminded me of Antonioni's "L'avventura" in every way. How Monica Vitti and Grosshill resembled, the long takes,... i bet the director Herk Harvey was heavily influenced by L'avventura.
the main actress bears some resemblance to the one in L'Avventura (not the one who disappears). What's interesting perhaps is that this movie picks up on "where the lost woman went" and shows us that, in a way.
Did you know the team behind PS 2 Konami Silent Hill 3 got the idea of the circus from this excellent film
I first seen this remastered in colour and got a trip from the film (music and eerie photography )
I just finished it and It's definietly one of my favorite old creepy movies, great video tho just subscribed.
thank you, and welcome.
I always really liked this film it has a dream like quality. It always reminded of Last Year at Mariembad with both the organ scores as well as the feeling of the characters being in a purgatory. It's a shame Herk Harvey didn't do more films as he shows imagination and a level of craft despite the low budget.
I think Herk was a decade before a time where he could've worked more in feature films.
Love that you mentioned LYAM! My two favorite movies !
One of my favorite horrors of all time. I think the movie is very much informed by the fact that it was made by a production company that typically specialized in 16mm school instructional movies. You know, like the ones that taught us why we shouldn't drink salt water, get VD, get periods, or go drunk speeding in our Plymouth Dusters after the prom?
The only qualified professional actors seemed to be the girl, Mrs Thomas, Mr Linden, and the minister. All the others seemed like 16mm school hygiene film characters or maybe just random people they hauled off the street. I feel like that bus depot guy rapidly stamping all those tickets was an actual bus employee. Maybe the guy made it to retirement without ever finding out he was in Carnival of Souls.
My favorite character was Mr Linden. SUCH a low tide sleezeball. He was hilarious as he cluelessly lusting after that girl, in his own rooming house, no less. Just the kind of guy you'd never wanna get stuck on a chairlift with in real life. But I love seeing him in this movie. He stole the movie IMHO.
Mrs Thomas was such a crummy woman, a total phony being all friendly to the girl, then trashing her as soon as the girls back was turned. All that petty fussing about the girl being allowed to use as much hot water as she likes, and bringing up "sandwich fixings". She was totally on Mr Lindens side, as a matter of fact I got the vibe that she was subconsciously seeking to pimp that girl off to Mr Linden! Very unusual in those days for rooming houses to be coed.
And that minister!? We couldn't figure out WHY he was so upset that the girl played some secular gothic sounding music on the organ. During a weekday, when no one else was around! Sheeese! Didn't write her up, did give her a last chance, just indignantly fired her, immediately, on the spot. Today they'd only do that over something involving bias or sex.
I like that the movie leaves so many unanswered questions. All kinds of gaps our imagination can fill in. Oh, and I do NOT see any connection between the abandoned amusement pier she keeps going to and the Overlook Hotel from 'The Shining'. Wheres he getting that from?!
They're both large, old, and haunted. Thats it! In one, the ghosts come directly from the hotel, but in Carnival, the ghouls just kind of follow her around where ever she goes. She could be in South Beach, Florida and they'd catch up with her there. I wonder how Stephen King would feel about this?
I feel like the filmmaker adjusted the story based on his budget and what was available for filming. Cheapest place to film is Salt Lake City? We'll have the story there! They got an old bridge they're going to tear down? Quick, lets film some kind of car accident there! Where we got permission to film? A bus depot, an old amusement pier built over a dried out section of the Great Salt Lake? We'll go film a bunch of scary stuff there, we'll grab a bunch of college students and offer them a chance to be in a movie, paint em up scary like. We have no story? We don't need a story, we'll just get a bunch of stuff in the can and make up the story while we're editing in post.
Of course, none of this matters, I still love the movie.
First time i saw the flim, i didnt know what to think, but the more times i watch it it gets better and better.
But this film is actually spine tingling without resorting to blood and guts; can’t say that about many later creepy films. This one frightened me as a child when I first saw it on tv around 1965 and still does to this day. Yes, it is a cut above “Night of the Living Dead” and it influenced a lot of creepy movies but very few of them were popular mainstream ones. I remember “soul survivor” being most like “C of S”. The Shining didn’t scare me at all. All just my opinion🙂
Reminds me of Val Lewton, director of "Cat People." I guess the word is atmospheric. A gem. ❤
very fresh movie, some great visual transitions/cuts, def some Psycho vibe or even The Birds, as well as Hilligoss looking like a Hitchcock blonde (her performance was quite good overall). it's amazing how this movie anticipates the hauntings of The Shining, wonder if Kubrick saw this movie, or I guess as I'm not a horror buff some of these tropes are common. great look and visuals, my only problem is some scenes drag on with rather prosaic dialogue between the more intense and striking elements of the film. i'm also curious if at the beginning there was a little more backstory to the characters, maybe that would have added some subtext to the hauntings, but possibly not. definitely of interest, ty !
I'm pretty sure the resort is the old Saltair resort, what some called "Mormon Coney Island". There are still a few small reminants there today a good urbex eye can spot today (I saw some wood I suspect was old roller coaster track given how it was stacked although I can't be sure) although everything easily noticible is gone (the land is owned by autobaun society, which owns nature preserves accross the US). A similar pavilian which takes the Saltair name was built nearby which still hosts concerts to my understanding. Definately an interesting rabbit hole.
I finally saw this.. and i love your observations. We picked up some similar things.
This is one of my favourite movies. Really enjoyed the review. Thx.
Just when I thought I'd seen all of your videos! Love that you covered this hidden gem, I watched this randomly one day last year (or was it the year before?) and absolutely loved it. It has such a haunting memorable atmospheric quality to it
Thank you, Hope. One of my favorites horror movies. Btw, here's a list of most of my videos. Just a text list for now, yet maybe it's helpful in finding something you haven't seen.
joshmatthews.org/what-makes-this-movie-great-list-of-videos/
I think the film does achieve a detached dreaming quality, and that tone is one of its greatest assets. And yes, I agree there is a blank asexuality that assets itself when the pushy male lodger tries to seduce her...almost like he is some trope from a more stereotypical 50s-60s horror flick that wondered into this story and doesn't realize his schlock will not work...
good comment, thank you.
One of my favorite movies I used to have it on VHS.
Now I am looking for it on blu-ray
it's out there. Criterion has a good disc.
Love this movie and have recommended it to many people.
Funny how a movie I saw as a kid upstairs at my grandparents' that I put in the vcr and watched with my cousins but we shut it off before watching the whole thing bc it scared us to death is a movie I enjoy today and like watching over again.
Some is the nostalgia of that pure fear as a kid.
What made us shut it off was the organ scene which the priest doesn't like. Of course we didn't get to the part after she stops playing the organ. I think it was how it was unexplained, without any rational reason , at least how I saw it as a kid
Maybe this is one reason organ music inspires horror, especially in churches. Then add the bleak location of the Great Salt Flat pavilion once known as the dance palace for the Mormons. Influenced with time and restrictive place one is surely to cringe as I did when I first viewed this tribute of society's macabre.
Carnival of soul is my favorite movie of all time, the remake of 1998 is a sacrilege. I love everything in the real one, the 1962 version, i adore the soundtrack too, one of the best ever if not the best.
thank you very much.
Do you know any other movies similar to this?😊
@@mars-jr5uu Personnaly i don't, none have this aura to them like this one does. But if you search a movie in that type of horror, maybe movie like "The cabinet of Dr Caligari", "The hands of Horlac" or "Häxan" could interest you. Its older (in the 20's) and silent thought.
Now that i think of it, "Carnival of souls" has a lot of similarities to silent movies. In the way the horror scenes are filmed, with only gasps, cries and occasional screams placed almost like sound effects. That surely participate in this incredible athmosphere. So silent movies probably have the best chances of having of similare kind to this one. Silent movies have a lot to teach to modern film makers.
PS: They look to be in full for free on UA-cam 😉
@@Sorcerer_Lynx thanks for the reply, how are you?
@@mars-jr5uu Glad to help 😉 I'm good thank you, and yourself ?
I just watched it for the first time. I totally agree, the cinematography is great in this film. I love the peculiarities of the film and the main character. I did guess what the ending would be around the middle of the film, but that was fine. It seemed to be a logical conclusion. However, I was dumbfounded that the eye flicker of one of the corpses was not spotted at such a crucial scene. It should have been reshot.
thank you
One later film that is quite reminiscent of _Carnival of Souls_ (since many of the story beats and eventual denouement are pretty much the same) is 1990's quite creepy _Jacobs Ladder._
A pretty girl, a car wreck in a biack & white movie,
in 1961. I was 10 years old. It's haunted me since.
It really was the DAMN Organ music. Spooky, spooky.
Among countless others, I’m sure, this film is both modeled after and borrowed from, possibly decades later, i.e. Possession (1981). Similarly, there are wonderful, Hitchcock and Twilight Zone elements shown throughout. Reminiscent of “The After Hours” Twilight episode, this is one of many others that can be easily detected. As soon as they rush her into the doctor’s office, I knew they thought it was stemming from the “hysteria” of a woman, as a superficial and hasty assumption. Do you think she was dead the whole time, in limbo processing her transition, went back to the car manually to leave the earth OR possibly imagined this chain of events in spirit? Thank you for your excellent review 😀
you're welcome. I do watch the movie as if she were really dead the entire time, although I am sure there are a dozen ways to view her existence in the film.
@@eduardo_corrochio 🙏
yes, i was going to mention the twilight zone vibe in my comments, so true
Maybe it's just the fact they were released a year apart, are both black & white with a single, blonde female protagonist, but I think The Naked Kiss is its rightful companion film.
the funny thing is that I think Herk Harvey stayed with Industrial Films after this.
If this movie creeps you out at 12 noon trying watching it at 12 midnight lol 🤣
My belief is that she died but her soul is being called back by Death. I love the creepy atmosphere of the whole movie. People criticize that it is low budget but s great job was done on little money
Isn't diagetic music the music that the characters _do_ hear in universe?
If I said it wrong, thank you for the correction.
As far as asexuality goes, there is a general lack of enthusiasm and wanting to be involved with people that are commented on in the movie (other than when she feels pursued by the dead guy). She even seems surprised by it when she herself comments on it at points.
thank you.
i liked it. saw it in like October of 2018. crazy that was half a decade ago! ayy yai yai
Was she really dead the whole time , or is it all allegory?
Yep, I think this movie represents a brief period of time between the moment of her death, and the moment of her brain finally dying. Might only have been 5 seconds but perhaps as you die, your sense of time slows down in the extreme.
A kind of time dilation of the soul. Perhaps the ghouls represent death overtaking her and shutting down her body. Maybe some people go to one place when they die, but other people, who didn't quite make good, end up going to the carnival of souls.
Remember what Meister Ekhart said about death......
"The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won’t let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they’re not punishing you. They’re freeing your soul. So, if you’re frightened of dying and ... you’re holding on, you’ll see devils tearing your life away. But if you’ve made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth."
@@RaptorFromWeegeeHell is a real place, not just a state of mind.
@@MeadeFatLoss where is it located, specifically?
@@RaptorFromWeegee it's spiritual
@@MeadeFatLoss How do you know theres such a thing as spirit?
It took 13 beaches to find one empty…
I love this Movie...Thank´s for your Video
Kubrick's The Shining was based on the novel by Stephen King. And King got the idea for the book from staying at the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, which is reputed to be haunted.
I forget why this is relevant to the video. I have a video on the Shining coming up in October 2021
@@LearningaboutMovies Ah okay. The way you worded it made me blink and go, "Surely he knows it was a book!" But if you mean some of the tricks Kubrick used with his version of the Overlook Hotel, like making rooms and halls and windows go where there's no way they could to mess with the viewer's spacial awareness, or his love of the one point perspective, I can see that!
I totally got a pre-Shining vibe here. But I don't know if there are other pre-1980 horrors with similar tropes as I'm pretty ignorant about horror. Seems like clearly could have influenced Kubrick here, but idk.
She's asexual because she's dead. It's about her being in purgatory because she's denying her death. The dead people are attempting to tear her flesh away so that she can join them. That's the impression I got.
I watched this movie on the afternoon Creature Feature from my local TV station. I must have been about 8 or 9 years old. The usual flicks they showed were never scary - just goofy low-budget schlock with bad stop-motion effects or guys in rubber suits lumbering after scantily clad women. Needless ro say, my guard was down.
Hol s***! This thing scared me like nothing ever had. Without giving anything away, other films have had similar stories and third-act twists, but none of them landed quite as perfectly as this one. The low budget is at times painfully obvious, but it never gets in the way. In fact, it kind of helps by keeping you off balance. The film slides, almost unnoticeably, between worlds - looking and sounding like a typical cheap B-movie and then, withough warning, plunging you into a cold, Lynchian abyss.
I'm not religious but her soul is trapped because she has no faith in the Christian god.
Ready to be educated
nice review thanks
you're welcome.
Continuity, pacing, structure are all problematic yet part of its allure. The creepy male lover is a fascinating extension of her own view of social-sexual interaction and paranoia. This time the movie held me though it still seems overlong. It echoes "Rebel Without a Cause" (reckless drag race) and "Splendor in the Grass" (Natalie Wood as a modern Ophelia, rejected and psychotic, suicidal and drawn to deep water).. Finally, the film's action prefigures Chappaquiddick and the tragedy of Mary Jo Kopechne.
i´m 33 now and i am glad i did not see this movie until i was around 27 years old XD, poor kids that watched this on TV
David Lynch ripped this off big time, and astro-zombies too. Now everybody dissed on it for decades but now they've always admired. Guess the same will happen to the brain that wouldn't die, the first gore movie. I would call these movies American expressionism.
I just recently watched this movie at the recommendation of a friend, he seemed to really like it, I found it strange yet boring and predictable. I knew as soon as the girl crawled out of the water what the "surprise" ending was gonna be. Some of the characters had me scratching my head on how bizarre their behavior was but it wasn't enough to save the flick of being something I'll never watch again.
Just my opinion.
It's a great movie , it highlights so many Mormon things for example the Department Store used was ZCMI it was founded by Brigham Young for Mormons by Mormons in Utah and it also makes use of salt aire the Mormon answer the Jersey shore bordwak
Top five horror film.
She is gorgeous.
What hints are there that she's asexual? Turning down one pushy, uncharming guy does not seem like enough to establish her sexuality.
I think people have argued frigidity on that basis: given the kind of movie she's in, she acts weirdly uninterested. Although it would be even weirder if she did, as she's dead!
When she says she she's not interested in boyfriends or anything like that. Remember? Maybe she was asexual, but perhaps asexual as a result of her depression/poor mental health.
@@LearningaboutMoviesWhy on earth should she be interested in that jerk? Also they've only just met.
It became pretty obvious on her dress shopping trip that she was actually dead but didn't know it so no suspenseful ending
I thought it was obvious when she walked out of the river. Still, that doesn't solve the greater mysteries of this movie, such as how she's interacting with the world or why she's still suffering.
Very good analysis, thank you.
I also liked this movie very much, it basically gives you a fairly good explanation what it is like to go insane. Altough it's not that pretty in reality as this lady is. ;)
The highly attractive and young, but rather cold and unfriendly lady (which is not a really good combination) is chased down by the dead spirit or spirits, and at the end they get her. (or her soul?)
I may add, that some parts, when she doesn't hear anything only her footsteps and can't interact with people and it's wierd, may be some kind of out of body experience.
In my view she's had a near deatch experience and therefore became sensitive to spirits. (The only thing I don't like is the impossibility of surviving underwater for hours, it's confusing, the body cannot survive that, a few minutes maybe, but not hours when all the police have arrived, also the ending makes no sense to me, my comment is only true if you forget the ending ;) ). Becoming sensitive to spirits: ask the schizophrenics or who had near death experience or used drugs like meth or dmt. They are convinced that the spirit world is real, you either believe them or don't belive them.
I disagree with the view that she was dead all along, how could she have interacted with all those healthy people. I think she had an emotional shock and became a little bit dead, or her soul was shaken somehow.
I also don't think one can see ghosts like that in one's madness, that clearly, they are more like humanoid shadows and noises or voices. But maybe it's possible for some, maybe it was the limitation of the technology of the time that they portrayed spirits like that, who knows.
It's a very good thriller, I would put it next to Psycho. I didn't like Night of the Living dead, it was boring for me. I'm more into ghosts than zombies.
I also watched House on Haunted Hill: well, it was scary but a bit over the top scary, it was too obvious, but fun. I liked it, but Carnival of Souls and escpecially Pyscho have more tension, and the amount of mysticism is just right, not too much not too little.
Invasion of the body snatchers: Sounds good, I will watch, thanks ;)
you're welcome. Thank you for watching.
Wonderful explanation.
Nice movie 👍
Spoiler alerts, if I may? I think the standard interpretation of this movie would be that the woman was dead all along (as in “The Sixth Sense”) - and this whole movie was perhaps some long-form fantasy she had in her final seconds before drowning. But I had another idea that maybe the Devil offered her a “second chance,” a way of cheating death, if she played her cards right (though she was notably unreligious). With all the references to “the soul,” maybe the Prince of Darkness was playing a game with her to see how she handled this second chance. Notice how she emerges from the mud, crashes into mud a second time on the road, but is finally drawn straight back to the mud outside the abandoned pavilion, where she vanishes once again, only to be pulled again from … well, you know.
Another way of saying this is that Death played a cruel game with her, letting her beat him once only to see if she could beat him twice.
You'd figure nowhere is less creepy than Utah . . . .
It covers Women’s Lib too.
Gross
People were nice back then .Not like in this society today..
well...
@@LearningaboutMovies well what ? It's true people in the 1950's and 60's had more respect for people I have a constitutional right to my own opinion. If you don't like it .then don't reply.
@@debberraharriman7288 As long as they were white.
@@debberraharriman7288 dude it was literally illegal for black people to be on the same side of the street as white people. That's not respectful people in the slightest.
@@debberraharriman7288 Yeah, but you don't have a constitutional right to not be disagreed with. And your opinion is factually wrong anyway.
Couldn't really get into it. Found it extremely boring. It's only an hour long but felt like it was 2 hours long it dragged on so much.
sorry about that.
It was sooo boring and not scary. I guess you have to be from the era.
Carnival of souls? A turning point in movie history? What insane hyperbole is this?!!!
quote me exactly what I said, in context, so that we can deal with it. Other than that, I assume you just didn't listen. That's 90% of negative comments I get with three exclamation points and a question mark.
"What makes this movie great?" Nothing. It's thoroughly nonsensical. It doesn't even TRY to make anything make sense.
okay.
But its not JUST nonsense, its nonsense thats very interesting to look at and think about. I think the movie deliberately leaves unanswered questions. That way your brain fills in the gaps drawing on ones imagination.
One can concoct numerous theories of whats going on in the movie. Of course to do all this you've got to have an imagination, ie: good frontal lobes.
@@RaptorFromWeegee I have been subject to covert electromagnetic control and suppression of my functioning for over 14 and a half years, and overall to the ultimate hell ever suffered. I am due infinite honor, respect and all that is infinitely. I function at genius level by nature, and my extremely high IQ has been tested, confirmed and documented by a psychiatrist.
It doesn't matter what invalid personal interpretation anyone invents. What matters is what was intended and what they meant to convey was that the woman somehow died and yet remained in corporeal form in every way with even her clothes somehow being present as she exists in a physical, material body, despite the fact that they are, in reality, on her body at the bottom of the river. There was no great meaning conveyed by it; they just couldn't figure out how to do it otherwise, in a way that made the least bit of sense, meaning, as far as I'm concerned, that they shouldn't have done it at all!
So go exercise your "imagination" in your little lightless closet, and imagine, in fact, that you're REALLY affecting things by way of some force that isn't yet understood, all the while being totally duped by those who set up the technological system by which the ELF field is used to create all the "manifestations" from the "Holy Spirit'" for Christians, to the deity Set as defined by Michael Aquino for his followers. Just ignore that he "was" an admitted PSYOP agent in the military right when these technologies first began to be employed, and that "Rex Church", "coincidentally", "was" ALSO admitted PSYOP military personnel.
@@backforblood3421 I thought I was the only one! Yes, there are certainly electro-magnetic forces at play that affect us. They're little understood by the masses. That movie, 'The Truman Show' was what gave it away. Surprised they let that get by.
Oh, and you mentioned a, "lightness closet". What exactly is that? Or what did you mean by that? I'm just a little confused as I'm not nearly the genius you are.
It certainly sounds like you're a genius-out-of-control. Or at the very least a Loganic One! I'm sure that could be very distressing to the powers that be, who most likely control the electro-magnetic waves.
I hope you're able to overcome these handicaps and see through the myst toward more clarity. A mystical realm, perhaps? Or perhaps not, I can't really tell for sure. It certainly sounds like a waste of your genius to be hobbled by this overall situation.