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Carnival of Souls

196280 minUnited States
Film noirMysteryHorror
Video edition
YouTube · Channel’s colorized edition
Original language
English
This copy runs
77:43
Subtitles
English

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Synopsis

Mary emerges from a river after a car crash but cannot explain her survival. Trying to resume her life, she experiences a growing separation from the people around her. An abandoned pavilion and an unsettling stranger seem connected to the change.

Cast

DirectorsHerk Harvey

Behind the scenes

Herk Harvey came from industrial and educational filmmaking in Kansas. The abandoned Saltair Pavilion in Utah gave the production a distinctive location around which to build its atmosphere of estrangement.

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