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Carnival of Souls

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Director: Herk Harvey Run Time: 78 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Release Year: 1962

Starring: Art Ellison, Bill de Jarnette, Candace Hilligoss, Dan Palmquist, Forbes Caldwell, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Stan Levitt, Steve Boozer, Tom McGinnis

Herk Harvey’s macabre masterpiece gained a cult following through late night television and has been bootlegged for years. Made by industrial filmmakers on a modest budget, Carnival of Souls was intended to have the “look of a Bergman” and “feel of a Cocteau,” and succeeds with its strikingly used locations and spooky organ score. Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) survives a drag race in a rural Kansas town, then takes a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her to an abandoned lakeside pavilion.

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