After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.
Bill de Jarnette
- Mechanic
- (as Bill De Jarnette)
- Director
- Writers
- John Clifford
- Herk Harvey(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaIn an article in the 9/15/1997 edition of "Variety", director George A. Romero noted this film was the inspiration for Night of the Living Dead (1968).
- GoofsThe camera crew is reflected in the boys' car during the drag race.
- Quotes
Mary Henry: It's funny... the world is so different in the daylight. In the dark, your fantasies get so out of hand. But in the daylight everything falls back into place again.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits fade in and out, scattered across the footage of the flowing river.
- Alternate versionsWhen originally released in 1962, the distributors cut four minutes from the film making it only 80 minutes long. When the film was rereleased in 1989, the filmmakers restored the four minutes and 84 minutes is the official, complete running time.
- ConnectionsEdited into Elvira's Horror Classics (2004)
Featured review
Just Like a Great Twilight Zone Episode at Feature Length!
I couldn't wait to watch this movie when I rented it. The video I got had a few critics reviews raving this movie, and one saying that this was like a lost Twilight Zone Episode. And it is!
Candice Hilligoss plays such a vulnerable character as Mary, a woman just in a car accident. She emerges from the river hours later, with no explanation. She then moves into a renting house when she accepts a new job as an organist at a church. The idea of the house only having one other guest, and a maid seemed quite frightening, and a real setup for something.
Soon Mary starts seeing this phantom-like man, who, in productions for the movie, was really only a man with pasty white face paint and black rings painted around his eyes. But wasn't that scary?! I mean, no special effects at all. Just a plain-old zombie. And very scary.
These sightings get worse and worse, and then there are moments that are like a dream sequence, with Mary going through the town as if a spirit. No one sees her; no one hears her, and she can't hear them. And then it ends. She starts seeing a doctor about these things, while also getting involved with the other guest at the house she is at, yet he is suspicious of her weird ways, and closed-off feelings towards him. Plus, she can't stop thinking about the old carnival she saw a few times while driving by, and she even explores it once.
After many days of this, it starts to get worse and worse, and she finally decides to leave. There is a minute or two of the scariest scenes in the movie that should have and quite literally could have been real, but it is only a dream. Though, the ending is great, with a terrifying chase in the carnival of souls, with many of these people after her. It's so scary!
I definitely recommend this movie for people who loved "The Blair Witch Project." It's that horror that doesn't pop up at you, but is so real, and leaves you feeling so empathetic, and futile because of that. There is no blood, no sex, no profanity, no violence. Nothing. Just horror. Definitely see this movie.
Candice Hilligoss plays such a vulnerable character as Mary, a woman just in a car accident. She emerges from the river hours later, with no explanation. She then moves into a renting house when she accepts a new job as an organist at a church. The idea of the house only having one other guest, and a maid seemed quite frightening, and a real setup for something.
Soon Mary starts seeing this phantom-like man, who, in productions for the movie, was really only a man with pasty white face paint and black rings painted around his eyes. But wasn't that scary?! I mean, no special effects at all. Just a plain-old zombie. And very scary.
These sightings get worse and worse, and then there are moments that are like a dream sequence, with Mary going through the town as if a spirit. No one sees her; no one hears her, and she can't hear them. And then it ends. She starts seeing a doctor about these things, while also getting involved with the other guest at the house she is at, yet he is suspicious of her weird ways, and closed-off feelings towards him. Plus, she can't stop thinking about the old carnival she saw a few times while driving by, and she even explores it once.
After many days of this, it starts to get worse and worse, and she finally decides to leave. There is a minute or two of the scariest scenes in the movie that should have and quite literally could have been real, but it is only a dream. Though, the ending is great, with a terrifying chase in the carnival of souls, with many of these people after her. It's so scary!
I definitely recommend this movie for people who loved "The Blair Witch Project." It's that horror that doesn't pop up at you, but is so real, and leaves you feeling so empathetic, and futile because of that. There is no blood, no sex, no profanity, no violence. Nothing. Just horror. Definitely see this movie.
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- WritnGuy-2
- Sep 5, 1999
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- Budget
- $30,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1(original ratio)
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