Product Details

• Actors: Candace Hilligoss, Mr. Lobo, Keith Lowell Jensen, Amy Wright
• Directors: Mr. Lobo, Herk Harvey
• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Apprehensive Films
• DVD Release Date: March 9, 2010
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0039XJGN2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #395,556 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A story so unusual it will burn itself into your mind. Mainly because this feature length film would have mad a great 22-minute Twilight Zone episode and feels like you've seen it twice when you've seen it once.

Never the less, it is one of the best inexpensive horror films this side of Night of the Living Dead and is a favorite of thrifty TV programmers. An all out ratings war errupts between Cinema Insomnia host Mr. Lobo, Fly By Night Theater host Francois Fly and Horror House hostess Lady Skankenstein and they all decide to compete with each other by showing th same film on the same night, Carnival of Souls. But no matter who wins, the viewers loose!

Candace Hilligoss stars as a drag racing church organist who goes soul searching and finds herself drawn to the haunted Saltair Pavilion, where ghostly ghouls are waiting to punch her eternal dance card. This semi-artsy horror film was made by independent filmmaker Herk Harvey and a bunch of his pals, neighbors and business partners in Kansas and Utah. This thrice wrapped tale of "a stranger among the living" wanders throuh Mr. Lobo's wacky wrap-arounds, retro TV commercials, drive-in trailers and guest appearances.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "In the dark, your fantasies get so out of hand. But in the daylight everything falls back into place again.", November 26, 2011

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This review is from: Carnival of Souls (DVD)

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In CARNIVAL OF SOULS, after surviving a terrible car accident, a young woman moves to Salt Lake City to take a job as a church organist. Frequent visions of a ghostly spectre eventually lead her to an abandoned pavillon's ballroom, where dancers straddle the line between the living and the dead, an eerie scene that brings with it self-realization of the girl's own fate.

A remarkable first-and-only motion picture from industrial short director Herk Harvey (who also cameos as the undead man). This one's cult status seems to grow with each passing year. A must see!

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Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 IMDb viewer poll rating.

(7.1) Carnival of Souls (1962) - Candace Hilligoss/Sidney Berger/Frances Feist/Steve Boozer/Forbes Caldwell/Herk Harvey