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* TrappedInASinkingCar: The car race in the opening scene ends in tragedy when the rival car nudges Mary's off the bridge and into the muddy river below. Mary miraculously manages to get out and come up to the river shore. [[spoiler: Except she didn't, she drowned with her friends and we're treated to her lifeless body sitting in the car when it gets pulled out of the river]].
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* TheBadGuyWins: The Man, and all the other ghouls, apparently drag Mary back to the afterlife.
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: The Man, and all the other ghouls, apparently drag Mary back to the afterlife.afterlife]].
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* SubhumanSurfacingShot: The ghouls emerging from the sea when Mary decides to visit the abandoned amusement park.
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* SubhumanSurfacingShot: The ghouls emerging from the sea when Mary decides arrives to visit the abandoned amusement park.
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* AmusementParkOfDoom: The abandoned Saltair park.
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* AmusementParkOfDoom: The abandoned Saltair park.park, where the nightmarish finale takes place.
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* DaylightHorror: [[spoiler: The ending where the dead chase down and capture Mary takes place in broad daylight and is not even the slightest bit less horrifying than any of the scenes at night.]]
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-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert'''[='s=] [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/carnival-of-souls-1989 review]].
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** The reason for the Priest's offense is more obvious when you consider that Mary's music changes from sacred church music into profane, carnivalesque music during her trance.
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''Carnival of Souls'' is a low-budget ($33,000 in 1962[[note]]About $283,000 in early 2020[[/note]]) American BMovie horror film produced, directed, and co-written by (and co-starring) Herk Harvey, which did mediocre business upon release but has become enough of a CultClassic to merit inclusion in Creator/TheCriterionCollection. In fact, some people consider it to be the best "B" movie ever made; both Creator/DavidLynch and Creator/GeorgeARomero have cited it as an inspiration, with Romero stating that ''Carnival of Souls'' gave him the idea for ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}''.
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''Carnival of Souls'' is a low-budget ($33,000 in 1962[[note]]About $283,000 $324,000 in early 2020[[/note]]) 2022[[/note]]) American BMovie horror film produced, directed, and co-written by (and co-starring) Herk Harvey, which did mediocre business upon release but has become enough of a CultClassic to merit inclusion in Creator/TheCriterionCollection. In fact, some people consider it to be the best "B" movie ever made; both Creator/DavidLynch and Creator/GeorgeARomero have cited it as an inspiration, with Romero stating that ''Carnival of Souls'' gave him the idea for ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}''.
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* PerpetualSmiler: The Man
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* PerpetualSmiler: The ManMan and [[SlasherSmile not in a comforting way either]].
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''Carnival of Souls'' is a low-budget ($33,000 in 1962[[note]]About $283,000 in early 2020[[/note]]) American BMovie horror film produced, directed, and co-written by Herk Harvey, which did mediocre business upon its release but has become enough of a CultClassic to merit inclusion in Creator/TheCriterionCollection. In fact, some people consider it to be the best "B" movie ever made; both Creator/DavidLynch and Creator/GeorgeARomero have cited it as an inspiration, with Romero stating that ''Carnival of Souls'' gave him the idea for ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}''.
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''Carnival of Souls'' is a low-budget ($33,000 in 1962[[note]]About $283,000 in early 2020[[/note]]) American BMovie horror film produced, directed, and co-written by (and co-starring) Herk Harvey, which did mediocre business upon its release but has become enough of a CultClassic to merit inclusion in Creator/TheCriterionCollection. In fact, some people consider it to be the best "B" movie ever made; both Creator/DavidLynch and Creator/GeorgeARomero have cited it as an inspiration, with Romero stating that ''Carnival of Souls'' gave him the idea for ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}''.
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''Carnival of Souls'' is a low-budget ($33,000 in 1962[[note]]About $283,000 in early 2020[[/note]]) "B" horror film produced, directed, and co-written by Herk Harvey which did mediocre business on release, but has become enough of a CultClassic to merit a [=DVD=] release by Creator/TheCriterionCollection. In fact, some people consider it to be the best "B" movie ever made; both Creator/DavidLynch and Creator/GeorgeARomero have cited it as an inspiration, with Romero stating that ''Carnival of Souls'' gave him the idea for ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}''.
A young lady named Mary is riding in a car with her girlfriends when another car pulls up and challenges them to a drag race. Mary's friend unwisely accepts, and the two cars zoom off on a high-speed race, which ends when Mary's car plunges off of a bridge and into a river.
Police and first responders are dragging the river in search of the car when a dazed Mary staggers onto dry land. After she recovers she leaves town, having been hired to play the organ at a church in Utah. All is not well, however, as Mary starts to have terrifying visions of a ghoulish, undead man stalking her. When she isn't having these horrifying visions, she is experiencing other terrifying interludes when, for no apparent reason, no one can see or hear her. And then there's the creepy abandoned old amusement park, which Mary inexplicably finds herself drawn to...
A young lady named Mary is riding in a car with her girlfriends when another car pulls up and challenges them to a drag race. Mary's friend unwisely accepts, and the two cars zoom off on a high-speed race, which ends when Mary's car plunges off of a bridge and into a river.
Police and first responders are dragging the river in search of the car when a dazed Mary staggers onto dry land. After she recovers she leaves town, having been hired to play the organ at a church in Utah. All is not well, however, as Mary starts to have terrifying visions of a ghoulish, undead man stalking her. When she isn't having these horrifying visions, she is experiencing other terrifying interludes when, for no apparent reason, no one can see or hear her. And then there's the creepy abandoned old amusement park, which Mary inexplicably finds herself drawn to...
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''Carnival of Souls'' is a low-budget ($33,000 in 1962[[note]]About $283,000 in early 2020[[/note]]) "B" American BMovie horror film produced, directed, and co-written by Herk Harvey Harvey, which did mediocre business on release, upon its release but has become enough of a CultClassic to merit a [=DVD=] release by inclusion in Creator/TheCriterionCollection. In fact, some people consider it to be the best "B" movie ever made; both Creator/DavidLynch and Creator/GeorgeARomero have cited it as an inspiration, with Romero stating that ''Carnival of Souls'' gave him the idea for ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}''.
A young lady named Mary (Candace Hilligoss) is riding in a car with her girlfriends when another car pulls up and challenges them to a drag race. Mary's friend unwisely accepts, and the two cars zoom off on a high-speed race, which ends when Mary's car plunges off of a bridge and into a river.
Police and first responders are dragging the river in search of the car when a dazed Mary staggers onto dry land. After she recovers she leaves town, having been hired to play the organ at a church in Utah. All is not well, however, as Mary starts tohave experience terrifying visions of a ghoulish, undead man (Harvey) stalking her. When she isn't having these horrifying visions, she is experiencing other terrifying interludes when, for no apparent reason, no one can see or hear her. And then there's the creepy abandoned old amusement park, which Mary inexplicably finds herself drawn to...
A young lady named Mary (Candace Hilligoss) is riding in a car with her girlfriends when another car pulls up and challenges them to a drag race. Mary's friend unwisely accepts, and the two cars zoom off on a high-speed race, which ends when Mary's car plunges off of a bridge and into a river.
Police and first responders are dragging the river in search of the car when a dazed Mary staggers onto dry land. After she recovers she leaves town, having been hired to play the organ at a church in Utah. All is not well, however, as Mary starts to
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** The priest turns into one when he snaps at her and fires her for playing "blasphemous" music when she's clearly disturbed. He feebly tries to offer the church's help as she walks out, but it just makes him seem even more insensitive.
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** The priest turns into one when he snaps at her and fires her for playing "blasphemous" music when she's clearly disturbed. He feebly tries to offer the church's help as she walks out, but it just makes him seem even more insensitive. Downplayed, as he is later seen in the search party looking for Mary.
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* DaylightHorror: [[spoiler: The ending where the dead chase down and capture Mary takes place in broad daylight and is not even the slightest bit less horrifying than any of the scenes at night.]]
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* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler: It's subtle but you can hear the ghouls let out an evil chuckle as they chase Mary down.]]
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-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert'''[='s=] [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19891027/REVIEWS/910270302/1023 [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/carnival-of-souls-1989 review]].
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* BadDreams: One of Mary's visions is revealed to have been a dream near the end.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: [[invoked]] Modern audiences will ''immediately'' realize [[spoiler:Mary is in a DyingDream or DeadAllAlong when she stumbles out of the car wreck]] - never mind that this was one of ''the very first'' movies to employ this trick.
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''Carnival of Souls'' is a low-budget ($33,000 in 1962) "B" horror film produced, directed, and co-written by Herk Harvey which did mediocre business on release, but has become enough of a CultClassic to merit a [=DVD=] release by Creator/TheCriterionCollection. In fact, some people consider it to be the best "B" movie ever made; both Creator/DavidLynch and Creator/GeorgeARomero have cited it as an inspiration, with Romero stating that ''Carnival of Souls'' gave him the idea for ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}''.
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''Carnival of Souls'' is a low-budget ($33,000 in 1962) 1962[[note]]About $283,000 in early 2020[[/note]]) "B" horror film produced, directed, and co-written by Herk Harvey which did mediocre business on release, but has become enough of a CultClassic to merit a [=DVD=] release by Creator/TheCriterionCollection. In fact, some people consider it to be the best "B" movie ever made; both Creator/DavidLynch and Creator/GeorgeARomero have cited it as an inspiration, with Romero stating that ''Carnival of Souls'' gave him the idea for ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}''.
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In 1998, a Creator/WesCraven-produced remake was released, which received mixed, mostly-negative reviews. While it, too, is available on [=DVD=], it's a pretty safe bet that it won't ever get a Criterion release.
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In 1998, a Creator/WesCraven-produced InNameOnly remake was released, which received mixed, mostly-negative reviews. While it, too, is available on [=DVD=], it's a pretty safe bet that it won't ever get a Criterion release.
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* DeadAllAlong: Mary drowned in the car crash, and the rest of the story unfolds with her as a ghost, instinctually resisting the trip to the underworld.
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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Mary drowned in the car crash, and the rest of the story unfolds with her as a ghost, instinctually resisting the trip to the underworld.]]
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* DownerEnding: Mary is chased down and swarmed by the Man's ghosts. The next morning, the other main characters manage to dredge up the car she crashed in with her body still inside.
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* DownerEnding: Mary is chased down and swarmed by the Man's ghosts. The next morning, [[spoiler: the other main characters manage to dredge up the car she crashed in with her body still inside.]]
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* TheGrimReaper: What The Man seems to be.
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* TheGrimReaper: [[spoiler: What The Man seems to be.]]
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* [[{{Tsundere}} Hot And Cold]]: John sees Mary as this. First she acts cold and doesn't want to see him, then flirts with him when he brings her coffee, before turning down a date and then agreeing soon after. She acts bored on his date before telling him she wants to be with him that night before finally acting disinterested. He's understandably confused
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* [[{{Tsundere}} Hot And Cold]]: John sees Mary as this. First she acts cold and doesn't want to see him, then flirts with him when he brings her coffee, before turning down a date and then agreeing soon after. She acts bored on his date before telling him she wants to be with him that night before finally acting disinterested. He's understandably confusedconfused.
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* IneffectualLoner: Mary until she no longer wants to be alone. This entire movie could arguably be summed up as "being Mary sucks".
* InformedAttribute: The song that gets Mary fired sounds is slightly dissonant, but not [[OminousPipeOrgan much different from everything else we hear her play in the film]], including the song she played when she introduced herself to the Priest. But he acts like she used the organ to [[HellIsThatNoise open a portal to Hell itself]].
* InformedAttribute: The song that gets Mary fired sounds is slightly dissonant, but not [[OminousPipeOrgan much different from everything else we hear her play in the film]], including the song she played when she introduced herself to the Priest. But he acts like she used the organ to [[HellIsThatNoise open a portal to Hell itself]].
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* IneffectualLoner: Mary Mary, until she no longer wants to be alone. This entire movie could arguably be summed up as "being Mary sucks".
* InformedAttribute: The song that gets Mary fired soundsis slightly dissonant, but not [[OminousPipeOrgan much different from everything else we hear her play in the film]], including the song she played when she introduced herself to the Priest. But he acts like she used the organ to [[HellIsThatNoise open a portal to Hell itself]].
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* {{Motifs}}: Water is either present or referenced to in a lot of the scary stuff which makes sense given the opening and the TwistEnding. It's inconsistent though as some of The Man's apperances have nothing to do with water.
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* {{Motifs}}: Water is either present or referenced to in a lot of the scary stuff which makes sense given the opening and the TwistEnding. It's inconsistent though as some of The Man's apperances appearances have nothing to do with water.
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!!The Original Contains Examples of:
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!!Tropes Present In the Remake That Were Not In The Original:
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:More-or-less the same ending as the original, but with a more uplifting and heroic twist. Alex is revealed to have died in the opening, but, in doing so, had managed to defeat the BigBad, thus ensuring her little sister's survival.]]
%%* BlackBugRoom
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast
%%* DisappearedDad
%%* DyingDream
* HeroicSacrifice: The reason Alex's car crashed in the beginning is that she was trying to pull off one of these, [[spoiler:in the end, it turned out she succeeded]].
%%* MamaBear: Alex toward Sandra.
%%* MissingMom
%%* MonsterClown
%%* PantyShot
* RemakeCameo: Sidney Berger, who played motel guest John Linden in the original film, appears as one of the two cops who [[spoiler:discover the bodies of Alex and Louis inside Alex's car after it is fished up from the bay]].
%%* {{Revenge}}: Louis's motive.
* RightThroughHisPants: The sex scene between Alex and Michael the boatman has him removing only his shirt, which is enough for him to start thrusting away.
* TakingYouWithMe: In the opening, Alex deliberately steers her car off the road so that the paedophile who is holding her hostage won't be able to kill her sister. She ends up surviving [[spoiler:until the end, where it turns out that everything after the crash was just a dying dream]].
!!Tropes Present In the Remake That Were Not In The Original:
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:More-or-less the same ending as the original, but with a more uplifting and heroic twist. Alex is revealed to have died in the opening, but, in doing so, had managed to defeat the BigBad, thus ensuring her little sister's survival.]]
%%* BlackBugRoom
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast
%%* DisappearedDad
%%* DyingDream
* HeroicSacrifice: The reason Alex's car crashed in the beginning is that she was trying to pull off one of these, [[spoiler:in the end, it turned out she succeeded]].
%%* MamaBear: Alex toward Sandra.
%%* MissingMom
%%* MonsterClown
%%* PantyShot
* RemakeCameo: Sidney Berger, who played motel guest John Linden in the original film, appears as one of the two cops who [[spoiler:discover the bodies of Alex and Louis inside Alex's car after it is fished up from the bay]].
%%* {{Revenge}}: Louis's motive.
* RightThroughHisPants: The sex scene between Alex and Michael the boatman has him removing only his shirt, which is enough for him to start thrusting away.
* TakingYouWithMe: In the opening, Alex deliberately steers her car off the road so that the paedophile who is holding her hostage won't be able to kill her sister. She ends up surviving [[spoiler:until the end, where it turns out that everything after the crash was just a dying dream]].
