Carnival of Souls (1962)

Carnival of Souls (UR)

"Fresh Organ"

A young woman driving to a new town to start her new job as a church organist (!?) is besieged by visions of waterlogged figures, ghostly ghouls who pursue her through abandoned boardwalks and on streets of her newly adopted home.  What secret could be revealed in their dead gaze?

Shot on a microscopic budget, the movie achieves much with its moddy organmusic score, rich black and white photography and a plot structure that either for intelligence or budgetary reasons is not spoon fed to the viewer.  Carnival is similar to the best of the Twilight Zone TV series, though predating those and lacking some the series inappropriate humor.  Souls obviously inspired many future horror films (not the least of which being Romero's Dead films), but sitll could teach us all a thing or two about small town exuberance, working miracles withing your means and comes wrapped in brilliant outsider-industry charm

7 Empty Merry-Go-Rounds are Creepy, who knew?  out of 10 (GOOD)