Carnival of Souls (1962)
Carnival of Souls (1962)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Candace Hilligoss
Mary Henry
Herk Harvey
The Man / Director / Producer / Story
Sidney Berger
John Linden
Frances Feist
Mrs. Thomas
Art Ellison
Minister
Stan Levitt
Dr. Samuels
Tom McGinnis
Organ Factory Boss
Forbes Caldwell
Organ Factory Worker
Dan Palmquist
Gas Station Attendant / Editor
Bill de Jarnette
Mechanic / Editor
Steve Boozer
Chip the Man at Juke Box
Pamela Ballard
Dress Sales Lady
Larry Sneegas
Drag Racer / Production Manager
Cari Conboy
Lake Zombie
Karen Pyles
Dress Store Customer
T.C. Adams
Dancing Zombie
Sharon Scoville
Mary's Girlfriend
Mary Ann Harris
Mary's Girlfriend
Peter Schnitzler
A Walking Corpse
Bill Sollner
Lake Zombie
Reza Badiyi
Bus Ticket Customer (uncredited) / Assistant Director
Ed Down
Man at Bridge (uncredited) / Sound
Wayne Shmille
Sheriff at Bridge (uncredited)
Gene Moore
Music
Maurice Prather
Cinematography
John Clifford
Writer
George Corn
Hairstylist
Don Jessup
Sound
Herbert L. Strock
Editor
Lanny Fellers
Assistant Production Manager
Richard Walker
Assistant Production Manager
Dan Fitzgerald
Title Designer
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 2, 1962
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 18m
Content RatingNR
Budget$30,000
Filming LocationsKansas · Salt Lake City, United States of America
Genres
Wiki.
Carnival of Souls is a 1962 American psychological horror film produced and directed by Herk Harvey and written by John Clifford from a story by Clifford and Harvey, and starring Candace Hilligoss. Its plot follows Mary Henry, a young woman whose life is disturbed after a car accident. She relocates to a new city, where she finds herself unable to assimilate with the locals, and becomes drawn to the pavilion of an abandoned carnival. Director Harvey also appears in the film as a ghoulish stranger who stalks her throughout. The film is set to an organ score by Gene Moore.
Filmed in Lawrence, Kansas, and Salt Lake City, Carnival of Souls was shot on a budget of $33,000, and Harvey employed various guerrilla filmmaking techniques to finish the production. The film is loosely based on the French short An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961), an adaptation of the 1890 story of the same name by Ambrose Bierce, and Harvey was inspired by the visual style of filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman and Jean Cocteau. Carnival of Souls was Harvey's only feature film, and did not gain widespread attention when originally released as a double feature with the now mostly forgotten The Devil's Messenger in 1962.
Since the 1980s, the film has been noted by critics and film scholars for its cinematography and foreboding atmosphere. The film has a large cult following and is occasionally screened at film and Halloween festivals.