Carnival of Souls

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Carnival of Souls is a 1962 American neo-noir psychological horror film produced and directed by Herk Harvey. The screenplay was written by John Clifford, and the film stars 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. Harvey appears in the film as a ghoulish stranger who stalks her throughout. Filmed in Douglas County, Kansas, and Salt Lake City, Carnival of Souls was shot on a budget of $33,000, and Harvey employed various guerrilla filmmaking techniques. The film is loosely based on the French short An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961), itself an adaptation of the 1890 short 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...

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