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· Year: 1962
· Director: Herk Harvey
· Writers: John Clifford
· Cast: Candace Hilligoss, Sidney Berger
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· There are two confirmed running times for this film. The first, 80 minutes, is a cut that has been floating around for a while, and is still available on some videotape editions. The longer, 84-minute version, is approved by the director. That version, reassembled in 1989, has recently been digitally remastered for a VHS release.
· There are three other unconfirmed running times for Carnival. The first is a reported 73-minute print. Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1993 lists the full print as being 91 minutes. And the 1999 Movies Unlimited catalogue has a listing for an 87-minute version.
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· DVD: Criterion Collection · VHS: Possibly Director's Cut · VHS: 80-min version, EP · Book: Paperback, Cinematic HauntingsAmazon.co.uk
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When a car carrying several young women crashes off a bridge and into a river, only one of the women, Mary Henry, is able to make it to the riverbank. After that experience, Mary is followed by a frightening, ghostly man and finds herself inexplicably drawn to an old, abandoned carnival on a lakeshore.
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Really good, really creepy, really a great example of how powerful shoestring-budget filmmaking can be. Really a bad review--I forgot that I never got around to writing one. I will as soon as I watch the new Criterion DVD.
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I first saw this film on late night cable, never having heard of it film before. In viewing it in its black and white grittiness, it sort of reminded me of the 1968 Night Of The Living Dead, but there was something different about Carnival of Souls. It was much more mysterious than Night, and didn't go all out for shocks; Carnival was like a vague nightmare with a shock ending that forces you to question if what you just viewed had a meaning at all. I hope this movie, and not the hack remake from a few years ago, receives more exposure; I think it would be much more effective to a new generation of moviegoers than are the cleansed Hollywood films of today. A film with such a little budget can be so effective. But, then again, different things scare different people in different ways.
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