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Classics and semi-classics abound in this set of oldies starring the likes of Vincent Price , Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney, Jr. Included are: House on Haunted Hill , Carnival of Souls , The Little Shop of Horrors , The Human Monster , The Indestructible Man , Invisible Ghost , The Last Man on Earth , The Phantom Creeps , Nightmare Castle and Unnatural (horror.about.com....708.01.htm)
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Candace Hilligoss from Carnival Of Souls is our heroine, which is anotherintriguing aspect of the movie. Truthfully, I wasn't aware that RoyScheider was even in this film, which makes me want to go back and watch itagain just out of curiosity. I musn't have been watching thecredit (us.imdb.com/title/tt0057985/)
This is one of those oddities that makes an interest in cinema worthwhile.Like the equally atmospheric Carnival of Souls , it was made by a directorwhose primary activity lay in documentaries, and can very much be regardedas a 'one-off'. (www.imdb.com/title/tt0053459/)
Also, after I'd written the first draft I saw Herk Harvey 's Carnival of Souls , whose rational protagonist, stuck between the world of the living and the world of the dead, seemed very much akin to my protagonist in a bizarre number of ways (novelistic.typepad.com/)
Herk Harveys 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 intende (www.criterion.com....asp?id=102)
Now while these two appearances share a few similarities (I'd suggest that both try to inform and entertain the viewer for example), the main difference as I see it is that I can easily watch "A Return to Boobsville" all day and night on a variety of formats, but "Halloween Safety" vanished from me the day it was made and remains lost in my own mental limbo. I thought I'd catch a break when I was still living in Kansas and Centron threw out tons of their old film around 1992, but a friend of mine salvaged much of it from the dumpster behind their offices and nothing turned up. When "Carnival of Souls " came out in a hotshit double-disc Criterion Collection edition I hoped that, among the other Centron educationals, "Halloween Safety" might appear (there's a spooky thematic bridge there, right?), but no dice. Hey I even asked Something Weird Video to poke around when I was designing box covers for them, but they didn't find a thing. (scarstuff.blogspot.com/)
At this time of the year it seems like every film critic suddenly becomes an expert on horror films and starts publishing their quickly put together 60;Top 10 Scary Movie Moments61; or 60;Best Films to Watch on Halloween .61; These lists are often compiled by people who57;ve seen a limited amount of films and their horror selections are often tired and stale. Does anyone really still need to be told that a Criterion DVD release like Carnival of Souls is worth watching? Or horror classics like Hitchcock57;s Psycho and Romero57;s Night of the Living Dead are 60;must see61; movies? With that complaint out of the way, I57;d like to bring your attention to the name of one director who really deserves a lot more attention, and that is Pupi Avati (cinebeats.blogs....m/2007/10/)
(1952), Written on the Wind (1956), A Night to Remember (1958), The Long Good Friday (1980), Hamlet (1948), Grande illusion, La (1937), Aleksandr Nevskiy (1938), Sommarnattens leende (1955), Viskningar och rop (1972), Gimme Shelter (1970), Règle du jeu, La (1939), Black Narcissus (1947), Gattopardo, Il (1963), George Washington (2000), Oliver Twist (1948), Nuit et brouillard (1955), The Killers (1946), Cet obscur objet du désir (1977), Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (1958), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Mona Lisa (1986), Bande à part (1964), Alphaville , une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965), Carnival of Souls (1962), Avventura, L' (1960), Onibaba (1964), Tôkyô monogatari (1953), Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928), Sullivan's Travels (1941), Obchod na korze (1965), The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Pickup on South Street (1953), Kaidan (1964), Vitelloni, I (1953), Yeux sans visage, Les (1960), The Harder They Come (1972), Sisters (1973), Tengoku to jigoku (1963), My Man Godfrey (1936), Tsubaki Sanjûrô (1962), Portiere di notte, Il (1974), Höstsonaten (1978), The Lady Eve (1941), Faces (1968/I), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Enfants du paradis, Les (1945), Hearts and Minds (1974), Stazione Termini (1953), Såsom i en spegel (1961), All That Heaven Allows (1955), Nanook of the North (1922), Angst essen Seele auf (1974), Pygmalion (1938), Orfeu Negro (1959), Cercle rouge, Le (1970), Tystnaden (1963), Et Die (us.imdb.com....055630/dvd)
This low-budget ($30,000) cult film may well be one of the freakiest pictures you've never seen. Pre-" The Sixth Sense ," the story finds Candace Hilligoss "surviving" a fatal car crash after it plunges into the river . She moves on to Salt Lake City and gets one of the creepiest jobs you can acquire in a movie like this: church organist. But life is not normal . She constantly sees "The Man," a corpse-like specter who seems to follow her every move. And she's oddly pulled by a deserted pavilion that, in the film's frightful climax, will prove exceedingly horrific. The picture is filled with wonderfully eerie touches, including a bus full of ghouls, our heroine's realization that people can neither see nor hear her and the carnival-esque dance of the dead. Once you watch "Carnival of Souls ,"Â you'll have a hard time shaking some of these images out of your head, or worse, falling asleep that night (movies.msn.com....ews=220992)
Why did they come in the first place? First, because no matter how bad some of the films were (the oeuvre of Edward D. Wood Jr. bears testament to that), they were something different from the normal run of Hollywood product. Second, cult movies became a shared experience, especially in the case of something such as "Rocky Horror," where the audience became as much a part of the show as the movie itself. Midnight screenings became a secret society â why go see the safe, family-friendly " Star Wars " with a bunch of screaming kids and beleaguered parents when you could check out something truly unique, such as " Carnival of Souls "? (movies.msn.com....ews=244000)
It helps to watch Track of the Vampire after seeing Hill's cult film SpiderBaby. Not that it helps it make more sense, it just warms you up toweirdness that doesn't always make sense or flow too well. I feel that muchof the film could be jumbled around in a different order and possibly feelless like the patchwork it is, and making the main character into a vampiresure shows signs of forcing it all to fit. Many images in the film docommand respect, the cut to the dry lake bed, the carousel , the endearinglyoverlong beach dance, and the comical Bucket of Blood-like scenes. Ipersonally thrive on surreal imagery from the early 60's (Carnival of Souls ,I Bury the Living , Night Tide) and this film contains some of my favorites.Still, a definate example of parts being more than the whole. (www.imdb.com/title/tt0060174/)
Like the best of the women -in-peril genre, this "Shining " also contains the requisite scene of the woman sporting two (if not three) broken knees, dragging herself on hobbled limbs toward the door for an ungodly period of time, perhaps weeks. De Mornay's is a performance Tori Spelling would be proud of. Scary topiary animals aside, we've seen this all before, and not just in Kubrick's camp carnival of souls . For TV watchers, there's nothing new here - "The Shining " is on television almost every night (www.salon.com....70425.html)
I am always torn when I just can't participate in a meme or a carnival and I somehow fear that the host or originator will feel slighted. But I think we've got a pretty level-headed, laid back and great group of like souls here. So when I can't join in the fun, I know it won't be taken personally and that there will always be some new fun tomorrow, and the next day . . (randysmusings.blogspot.com....-meme.html)
The feel of these original stories from Eerie (and Warren and Skywald for that matter) is a lot like the vibe you get from, say, "Psycho ", "Carnival of Souls ", "Daughter of Horror" (the film showing in the movie theater in "The Blob"), many gems from Boris Karloff 's "Thriller" ("Pidgeons from Hell " is a good example) and some later shows from "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" ("The Jar"), many episodes of "Twilight Zone" and "Outer Limits" (especially "Forms of Things Unknown"), Jack Hill 's film "Spider Baby" or the Arch Hall film "The Sadist". Some of Dennis Steckler's (Cash Flagg) work, like "The Incredibly Strange Creatures who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies" delves into this, as does some of the work of the gore pioneer H. G. Lewis. "Night of the Living Dead " is a prime example. Steve Bissette also taps into this a lot to (datajunkie.blogspot.com....chive.html)
What amazes me about this Dada-spirited news is that it comes from that bastion of red state unhipness, Kansas ! Who knew? I also like that the mayor's name is Boog (short for Booger?). I mean, the only other Boog I know is the former Oriole slugger John "Boog" Powell, who is now best known for his open-pit barbecue sandwiches at "Oriole Park at Camden Yards." But what do I know? After all, Lawrence, KS was the headquarters of educational film company Centron Films (who can forget such exciting Centron classics as Sewing Simple Seams or Exchanging Greetings and Introductions ?), whose greatest auteur was no doubt Herk Harvey , director of the low-budget horror classic Carnival of Souls which was filmed in Lawrence (accelerateddecrepitude.blogspot.com....chive.html)
Their debut album, Darklore Manor, based on a real-life haunted mansion , was featured as the musical score for a New Year's Eve televised special of the 1922 silent film classic, Nosferatu . Their darkly seductive Transylvania, and the sinister Necronomicon and Carnival of Lost Souls are often played during Halloween and in haunted houses such as Busch Gardens, Knott's Scary Farms, and Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights, and are favored by fans of roleplaying games like Vampire: The Masquerade and Call of Cthulhu. But this band does not limit itself to just the Halloween season; their gothic-Christmas release Winter's Knight hit the Billboard Music Charts at #8 for Top Holiday Albums of 2006, and their medieval battle epic, Blood of the Dragon stormed in at #4 on Amazon's New Age chart that same year. Amazingly, Nox Arcana has released 8 full-length albums in just 4 years, with their most recent release Shadow of the Raven, based on the horror stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Joseph Vargo, composer, founder and producer of Nox Arcana, is also an internationally acclaimed gothic fantasy artist and write (www.mp3.com....a/summary/)
Their debut album, Darklore Manor, based on a real-life haunted mansion , was featured as the musical score for a New Year\'s Eve televised special of the 1922 silent film classic, Nosferatu . Their darkly seductive Transylvania, and the sinister Necronomicon and Carnival of Lost Souls are often played during Halloween and in haunted houses such as Busch Gardens, Knott\'s Scary Farms, and Universal Studios\' Halloween Horror Nights, and are favored by fans of roleplaying games like Vampire: The Masquerade and Call of Cthulhu (www.mp3.com....a/summary/)
Schoedsack & Irving Pichel USA 1932 47 Insomnia Erik Skjoldbjærg Norway 1997 48 Black Orpheus Marcel Camus France 1959 49 Nights of Cabiria Federico Fellini Italy 1957 50 And the Ship Sails On Federico Fellini Italy 1984 51 Brazil Terry Gilliam UK/USA 1985 52 Yojimbo Akira Kurosawa Japan 1961 53 Sanjuro Akira Kurosawa Japan 1962 54 For All Mankind Al Reinert USA 1989 55 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Philip Kaufman USA 1988 56 The 39 Steps Alfred Hitchcock UK 1935 57 Charade Stanley Donen USA 1963 58 Peeping Tom Michael Powell UK 1960 59 The Night Porter Liliana Cavani Italy 1974 60 Autumn Sonata Ingmar Bergman Sweden 1978 61 Monty Python 's Life of Brian Terry Jones UK 1979 62 The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer France 1928 63 Carnival of Souls Herk Harvey USA 1962 64 The Third Man Carol Reed UK 1949 65 Rushmore Wes Anderson USA 1998 66 Orphic Trilog (www.criterion.com....sort=spine)
Carnival Of Souls Having watched a number of low-budget horror films thanks to the television's very fine TCM Underground series, I felt confident that what I'd get here was a cheap low-budget scarefest with slightly above amateur visual style and very bad acting. Instead, it's a quite disturbing story that appears to have been filmed by Michelangelo Antonioni disguised with the unlikely pseudonym "Herk Harvey ". Seriously, not only are the creepy zombies scary, but the film's resemblance to the films Antonioni was making at the same time, L'Eclisse (also from 1962) in particular, is rather frightening as well. they even seem to have used the same music. The acting is, for the most part, pretty terrible, though the lead even looks a bit like Monica Vitti . The #11 film of 196 (theendofcinema.blogspot.com/)
Harvey would make the horror classic Carnival of Souls in the early â60s when on vacation from Centron. The film is a better showcase for Harvey âs ability to create scenes that get under your skin. Watch the scenes where Mary Henry (Candace Hillgoss) has to host the lecherous John Linden (Sidney Berger), and then think of what some of the Centron kids might have become (www.wholphindvd.com....s/2006/01/)
Ellison's work traces the Invisible Man 's descent to the underground , bringing together classical mythology, hoodoo practices, the history of Western civilization, and African American culture. He makes several allusions to Dante's Inferno , Virgil's Aeneid, Homer's Odyssey, the Bible , and other sources which allude to the journey to the underworld . The varieties of carnival in the novel thus intersect with references to the dead, hell, departed souls, invisibility, ghosts, and cult practices. In 1939, while collecting foildore for the Federal Writers' Project in Harlem, Ellison came across a story that would eventually play into his novel's trope of invisibility (Levine 405-06). The story describes a black man in Florence , South Carolina, who called himself Sweet-the-monkey. According to the tale, as told by Leo Gurley, "Sweet could make hisself invisible. You don't believe it? Well here's how he done it. Sweet-the-monkey cut open a black cat and took out his heart. Climbed up a tree backwards and cursed Go (www.encyclopedia.com....72240.html)
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