Product Details

• Actors: Sidney Berger, Herk Harvey, Frances, Feist, Stan Levitt Candance Hilligoss
• Format: Black & White, Original recording, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Burbank Home Video
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000KD9POO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #588,174 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

An ultra-cheap B-horror movie filmed in 1962 around Lawrence, Kansas, CARNIVAL OF SOULS has a very creepy Twilight Zone-style premise and some great shoestring atmosphere. Wandering into a small town after an auto accident, to begin her new job as a church organist, young Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) begins to pick up strange vibes: none of the normal people in town seem to be able to see her, and she keeps being accosted by freakish pasty-faced types who seem to be dead on their feet. The nightmarish finale benefits from its one-of-a-kind "found" setting, an empty amusement park rising like a ghostly castle from the prairie landscape. A less aggressive and violent film than George Romero's original Night of the Living Dead, but for sheer skin- crawling spookiness, it's in the same class and would have made a wonderful double feature.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent B-movie, February 7, 2007

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M. Massey (the west) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carnival of Souls (VHS Tape)

The movie shows it's age but is so wonderful and creepy that I'm suprised that no one has tried to remake it in a more modern version.
I have one question though! the version I saw was actually filmed in and around Salt Lake City, UT and used the old Saltair pavilion! is there two versions of this movie out there?