Carnival of Souls

Carnival of Souls
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Carnival of Souls
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Actor: Cari Conboy, Pamela Ballard, Sidney Berger, Steve Boozer, Ted Adams
Director: n/a
Brand: Carnival
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Collector's Edition, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 78 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: HART SHARP VIDEO

Movie Reviews of Carnival of Souls

Movie Review: A classic film with a well-deserved reputation
Summary: 4 Stars

I'm specifically reviewing the Legend Films version of this DVD, with MST3K's Mike Nelson providing commentary. The first thing to be considered is the fact that this is a "colorized" version, and you will find that the "colorization" process has come a long way. In the early days, colorized films looked like black and white films with four pastel tints: blue, green, pink, and bronze. Nothing looked "natural." In this film, you will see a moment here and there in which a character has the old-style bronze skin tone, but those moments are too few to mention. "Carnival of Souls" was the forerunner of later...and better...films that followed, so the debate over whether this film should have been colorized at all is a matter of preference. The print is clean, it looks good, and that's what really matters.

This film was a wise choice for Mike Nelson's wise-cracking commentary (as well as the follow-up "RiffTrax" version with Kevin "Tom Servo" Murphy and Bill "Crow Mach II" Corbett). There are some killer scenes in the movie, blueprints that filmmakers still follow to this day...and long, long stretches of tedium. That's where Mike (on the DVD) and the "Three Riffers" (on commentary available from the RiffTrax Web Site) really shine.

Leading lady Candace Hilligloss made one other feature film..."The Curse of the Living Corpse," with a pre-"Jaws" Roy Scheider...available on the The Del Tenney Double Feature DVD.

Here, she's more than up to the task of portraying the heroine with a constant sense of foreboding. It's difficult to discuss the film without using spoilers (although it is so well known among fans of the genre). Many directorial aspects are reminiscent of schlock-gore pioneer Herschel Gordon Lewis (minus the gore).

At the time of this review (2009), the film is 47 years old. Many superior films have followed in its wake. If you're a fan of the classics like Night of the Living Dead (Millennium Edition), you may very well love it. If you define "horror movies" by modern-day works like Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects (Unrated Widescreen Edition), you might find yourself bored to tears.

Read the reviews, read what others have to say on the Web...this film is considered a classic for a reason.

Summary of Carnival of Souls

This classic horror tale is now restored and in color for the first time, complete with an irreverent bonus commentary from Mike Nelson of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" fame.

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