Carnival of Souls (1962)

Name: Carnival of Souls (1962)
Uploaded: 2026-09-01
Duration: 1 h 23 min
Description: The lone survivor of a car crash takes an organist's job in a strange town, but a pale-faced man keeps appearing at the edge of her vision and an abandoned lakeside pavilion keeps pulling her back. Shot for pocket change by an industrial-film director, it drifts along on dread, church-organ drones and the logic of a nightmare.

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1962 · 1h 23m · Horror

Directed by Herk Harvey

public domain

US public domain — the original copyright was never renewed after its 1962 term.

The lone survivor of a car crash takes an organist's job in a strange town, but a pale-faced man keeps appearing at the edge of her vision and an abandoned lakeside pavilion keeps pulling her back. Shot for pocket change by an industrial-film director, it drifts along on dread, church-organ drones and the logic of a nightmare.

A regional one-off that outlived its makers’ careers and quietly seeded everything from Night of the Living Dead to Lost Highway.

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