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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. Creator/GeorgeARomero stated that ''Carnival of Souls'' was the inspiration for ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}''.
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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. made; both Creator/DavidLynch and Creator/GeorgeARomero stated have cited it as an inspiration, with Romero stating that ''Carnival of Souls'' was gave him the inspiration idea for ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}''.
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* ChristianityIsCatholic: The priest wears a collar, and the church looks like it could be a cathedral, but he could also be an Episcopal priest (in RealLife, the church was an Episcopal church in Lawrence, Kansas). He amusingly notes that it's not the biggest church in [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} Salt Lake City]].
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* ChristianityIsCatholic: The priest wears a collar, and the church looks like it could be a cathedral, but he could also be an Episcopal priest (in RealLife, the church was an Episcopal church in Lawrence, Kansas). He amusingly notes that it's not the biggest church in [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} the biggest church in Salt Lake City]].
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* HotAndCold: 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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* HotAndCold: [[{{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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* BigBad: The Man
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* RiddleForTheAges: The TwistEnding leaves many unresolved questions: [[spoiler:was the whole story Mary's DyingDream? Or did her ghost travel to Utah and did the characters who interacted with her not realize that she was an apparation? Or were they also ghosts? Who was The Man? TheGrimReaper? Someone she knew in a previous life? Her consort for the afterlife coming to claim her for himself?]]
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* RiddleForTheAges: The TwistEnding leaves many unresolved questions: [[spoiler:was the whole story Mary's DyingDream? Or did her ghost travel to Utah and did the characters who interacted with her not realize that she was an apparation? apparition? Or were they also ghosts? Who was The Man? TheGrimReaper? Someone she knew in a previous life? Her consort for the afterlife coming to claim her for himself?]]
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* ChristianityIsCatholic: The priest wears a collar, and the church looks like it could be a cathedral, but he could also be an Episcopal priest (in RealLife, the church was an Episcopal church in Lawrence, Kansas). He amusingly notes that it's not the biggest church in [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} Salt Lake City]].
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* InformedAttribute: The song that gets Mary fired sounds like [[OminousPipeOrgan every other song she's played in the film]], including the song she played when she introduced herself to the Priest, but the Priest's reaction is as if she used the organ to [[HellIsThatNoise open a portal to Hell itself]].
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* InformedAttribute: The song that gets Mary fired sounds like is slightly dissonant, but not [[OminousPipeOrgan every other song she's played 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 the Priest's reaction is as if Priest. But he acts like she used the organ to [[HellIsThatNoise open a portal to Hell itself]].
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* {{Jerkass}}: John, who is sleazy, creepy, temperamental, and all-around unempathetic.
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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.
** John, who is sleazy, creepy, temperamental, and all-around
** 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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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Mary's The TwistEnding reveals that [[spoiler:Mary's a ghost. Sometimes she is corporeal and can interact with the living world, but sometimes she seems to pass into some sort of ghost dimension where no one can see or hear her (and she can't hear them).them)]].
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* RiddleForTheAges: The TwistEnding leaves many unresolved questions: [[spoiler:was the whole story Mary's DyingDream? Or did her ghost travel to Utah and did the characters who interacted with her not realize that she was an apparation? Or were they also ghosts? Who was The Man? TheGrimReaper? Someone she knew in a previous life? Her consort for the afterlife coming to claim her for himself?]]
* RiddleForTheAges: The TwistEnding leaves many unresolved questions: [[spoiler:was the whole story Mary's DyingDream? Or did her ghost travel to Utah and did the characters who interacted with her not realize that she was an apparation? Or were they also ghosts? Who was The Man? TheGrimReaper? Someone she knew in a previous life? Her consort for the afterlife coming to claim her for himself?]]
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: [[invoked]] Modern audiences will ''immediately'' realize Mary [[spoiler:Mary is in a DyingDream or DeadAllAlong when she stumbles out of the car wreck wreck]] - never mind that this was one of ''the very first'' movies to employ this trick.
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* TwistEnding: Mary actually [[spoiler:actually drowned in the car wreck, and she's been DeadAllAlong.DeadAllAlong]].
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More of a Descended Creator case, since he appears throughout the film, and it's listed on the Trivia page
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* CreatorCameo: The main ghoul, The Man, is Herk Harvey.
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The plot is hard to summarize without spoilers, but its essence is a young woman who perceives, with gradually increasing frequency, images of a horrid, deformed stranger (as, for example, a temporary appearance in a mirror). The screw tightens until, at the climax, we find out who The Man is and why she has been receiving these visitations.
The movie is a case of an obscenely high-number of routine, standard tropes that more or less accidentally happen to work to a whole greater than the sum of the parts (or of the makers' designs and--arguably--capabilities).
Along with a handful of other films, it also has the distinction of being riffed ''twice'' by [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike Nelson]]: First on the colorized [=DVD=] released by Legend Films, the second time with help from Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett on Podcast/RiffTrax.
The movie is a case of an obscenely high-number of routine, standard tropes that more or less accidentally happen to work to a whole greater than the sum of the parts (or of the makers' designs and--arguably--capabilities).
Along with a handful of other films, it also has the distinction of being riffed ''twice'' by [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike Nelson]]: First on the colorized [=DVD=] released by Legend Films, the second time with help from Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett on Podcast/RiffTrax.
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Police and first responders are dragging the
The movie is a case of an obscenely high-number of routine, standard tropes that more or less accidentally happen to work to a whole greater than the sum
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SugarAndIcePersonality: Mary is oddly inconsistent in her behavior towards John. She blows him off when he first tries to talk his way into her bed, which makes sense enough as he is a creep. But the next morning she is friendly and flirty when he comes over with coffee.
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SurrealHorror: A young woman plagued with a series of terrifying visions of a ghoul stalking her.
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HauntedHeroine: Mary, once a calm and self-possessed woman, grows steadily more unglued as The Man stalks her every movement.
*HazardousWaterHazardousWater: Mary's friend has an accident while they are driving, with the car veering off a bridge and into a river.
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John, with his pathetic and desperate attempts to get into Mary's pants.
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*CelibateHeroCelibateHero: Mary doesn't much like to be around people. She rejects John's advances--although that may be be because John's such a creep.
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* HotAndCold: 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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* LooksLikeCesare: The Man, to some extent, with his pale skin and dark-circled eyes. Later we see a bus full of ghouls, and a ''danse macabre'' at the pavilion, with all the ghouls having that same Cesare look.
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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. Creator/GeorgeARomero stated that ''Carnival of Souls'' was the inspiration for ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.
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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. Creator/GeorgeARomero stated that ''Carnival of Souls'' was the inspiration for ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.
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* LooksLikeCesare: The Man, to someextent.extent, with his pale skin and dark-circled eyes.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: There's a clue early in the movie. One of the searchers at the river says that the car has been in the river for three hours. Shortly after this, Mary is staggering up on the riverbank. Where has she been all that time?
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* BadDreams: [[spoiler:One of Mary's visions is revealed to have been a dream near the end.]]
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* DancesAndBalls: Part of the Carnival's backstory. [[spoiler:Played for Horror later on in the main story]].
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* IneffectualLoner: Mary [[spoiler:until she no longer wants to be alone. This entire movie could arguably be summed up as "being Mary sucks"]].
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* OhCrap: An oddly-delayed version of this occurs [[spoiler:during the second visit to the psychologist.]]
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-->--Creator/RogerEbert's [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19891027/REVIEWS/910270302/1023 review]].
''Carnival of Souls'' was a low-budget "B" film ($33,000 in 1962) that 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. Creator/GeorgeARomero stated that ''Carnival of Souls'' was the inspiration for ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.
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''Carnival of Souls'' was a low-budget "B" film ($33,000 in 1962) that 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. George Romero Creator/GeorgeARomero stated that ''Carnival of Souls'' was the inspiration for ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.
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-->--RogerEbert's [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19891027/REVIEWS/910270302/1023 review]].
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* {{Jerkass}}: John, the loathsome creep.
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* {{Jerkass}}: John, the loathsome creep.who is sleazy, creepy, temperamental, and all-around unempathetic.
