list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Carnival of Souls on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Carnival_of_Souls/5273/default.aspx Title: Carnival of Souls
Year: 1962
Director: Herk Harvey
Plot: A drag race turns to tragedy when one car, with three young women inside, topples over a bridge and into the muddy river below. The authorities drag the river, but the search is fruitless and the girls are presumed dead until a single survivor stumbles out of the water with no recollection of how she escaped. Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) decides to forget her strange experience and carry on with her plan to move to Utah to accept a job as a church organist. She rejects the notion that because her profession leads her to work in the church, she is obligated to worship as part of the congregation, and this cold approach to her work unnerves many around her. While driving to the new city, she experiences weird visions of a ghoulish man who stares at her through the windshield, and passes an abandonded carnival on a desolate stretch of highway outside of town to which she feels strangely drawn. Mary tries to live her life in private, ignoring invitations to worship by the minister of her church and the leering propositions of a neighbor in her rooming house. Soon the ghostly apparition from the highway is appearing more often, and she experiences eerie spells in which she becomes invisible to people on the street. A doctor tries to help, but he too is rejected, and eventually Mary realizes that the deserted carnival holds the secret to her destiny. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide
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]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:19:28 GMTCarnival of Souls1962Herk HarveyA drag race turns to tragedy when one car, with three young women inside, topples over a bridge and into the muddy river below. The authorities drag the river, but the search is fruitless and the girls are presumed dead until a single survivor stumbles out of the water with no recollection of how she escaped. Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) decides to forget her strange experience and carry on with her plan to move to Utah to accept a job as a church organist. She rejects the notion that because her profession leads her to work in the church, she is obligated to worship as part of the congregation, and this cold approach to her work unnerves many around her. While driving to the new city, she experiences weird visions of a ghoulish man who stares at her through the windshield, and passes an abandonded carnival on a desolate stretch of highway outside of town to which she feels strangely drawn. Mary tries to live her life in private, ignoring invitations to worship by the minister of her church and the leering propositions of a neighbor in her rooming house. Soon the ghostly apparition from the highway is appearing more often, and she experiences eerie spells in which she becomes invisible to people on the street. A doctor tries to help, but he too is rejected, and eventually Mary realizes that the deserted carnival holds the secret to her destiny. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide13Tag Target (>10)38123http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t57472vy335.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Carnival_of_Souls/5273/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/8/22/34265.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 8/22/2008 1:01:33 PM
Body: “Yo, Steve, you got any movies, my dude?” One of the youngbloods, a relatively new arrival here at the halfway house, is standing by my bunk with a look of desperation. It’s Sunday afternoon and he’s too broke to do anything but languish in here with us old timers. I slide my pile of Brooklyn Public Library DVD’s over for his perusal. After scanning the titles for a moment, he grimaces sadly and says, “I meant good movies.” “There’s some good movies in there.” He squinted at one box: “McCabe and Mister Miller? 1971? Man, I was born in 1983. Why would I wanna watch some wild west crazy shit made when I wasn’t even around?” “Movies ain’t newspapers, youngblood. You’re missing out.” “The old black and white Casablanca stuff y’all watch… nah, man, thanks, I’ll pass.” I returned to the portable DVD player on my lap, to Carnival of Souls. I didn’t mean to lie to the young man– movies are newspapers, produced in a frenetic daily grind, stuffed with advertising, distributed in a blitz as far and wide as fiscally possible, then cast aside, forgotten the next day. But I figure asserting the notion of movies as something other than disposable infotainment would give him food for thought. Late one night, Big Biswas, who is actually a medium height, slightly chubby man around my age with an endearing bulldog face, visits my bunk. I don’t even pull off my headphones, just direct him to the DVD stack. Peripherally noticing him still standing there after while, I look up from Boccaccio ‘70 to find the bulldog looking hangdog. “Nothing?” I ask. “Come on, man. Just try one. I know they look sorta weird and old, but what’s to lose by trying?” “Na,” he says. Then his eyes go wide. He is looking at my LCD screen. Sophia Loren is bouncing around silently in a tight red dress, in front of several grubby, horny rural yokels. “What you watching?” “Boccaccio ‘70.” “Oh, one a those old school pornos.” “No. Well, sorta. Look at this.” I rewind to a scene where Sophia, as a carnival worker offered as the prize in a lottery, causes a frenzy by bending over to pick something up in from of the nasty men. A moment later, a bull breaks loose and starts to charge at her crimson dress until she strips down to her lingerie and tosses the dress aside. “See?” I said. “She’s built like Buffie the Body, right?” “Like Melyssa Ford.” “Gloria Velez.” “Esther Baxter.” “Like Ice-T’s wife.” “Which one?” “All of ‘em.” Big Biswas is grinning harder than the yokels as Sophia teases and pouts and struts across my ten inch screen. I got him. “You wanna borrow this one, don’t you, man?” He takes a moment, freeing his eyes from the screen only when Vittorio De Sica cuts away from Sophia. “Nah, that’s okay,” he says. “I like the new pornos better.” To each his own. I never push too hard, not wanting to become as obnoxious as the nostalgic village squire in Powell and Pressvurger’s A Canterbury Tale–another library disc treated like a leper round here. “You sound mighty condescending,” says a critic colleague of mine when I complain that, as starved as my floormates at the house are for cine-nutrition, the mainstream films they digest provide little more than carbs and sodium. The critic protests, “Let folks see what they wanna see. These are the movies they chose to watch.” “Well, I feel it’s more like the movies are choosing them.” “Not everybody needs to watch Renoir, Welles and Mizoguchi.” “Now who’s condescending? Why should Renoir, Welles and Mizoguchi be VIP-only? Those are some of the most accessible movies ever made. Why don’t we have Renoir, Welles and Mizoguchi type filmmakers turning out Dark Knights and Tropic Thunders?” “Don’t hold your breath.” I’m holding my breath, but not my tongue: These movies are killing us in the stealthy manner of mercury-laden toothpaste, hypothermia and deep fried sugar wings. Taste buds massaged, body benumbed, poisons working silently into the bloodstream until death starts to feel like sweet slumber. The politics of it all: When the town well is poisoned, the poorest and weakest drop first. The ones who can afford expensive treatments manage to live through the ailment, scarred but not destroyed. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:01:33 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com8/22/2008 1:01:33 PM “Yo, Steve, you got any movies, my dude?” One of the youngbloods, a relatively new arrival here at the halfway house, is standing by my bunk with a look of desperation. It’s Sunday afternoon and he’s too broke to do anything but languish in here with us old timers. I slide my pile of Brooklyn Public Library DVD’s over for his perusal. After scanning the titles for a moment, he grimaces sadly and says, “I meant good movies.” “There’s some good movies in there.” He squinted at one box: “McCabe and Mister Miller? 1971? Man, I was born in 1983. Why would I wanna watch some wild west crazy shit made when I wasn’t even around?” “Movies ain’t newspapers, youngblood. You’re missing out.” “The old black and white Casablanca stuff y’all watch… nah, man, thanks, I’ll pass.” I returned to the portable DVD player on my lap, to Carnival of Souls. I didn’t mean to lie to the young man– movies are newspapers, produced in a frenetic daily grind, stuffed with advertising, distributed in a blitz as far and wide as fiscally possible, then cast aside, forgotten the next day. But I figure asserting the notion of movies as something other than disposable infotainment would give him food for thought. Late one night, Big Biswas, who is actually a medium height, slightly chubby man around my age with an endearing bulldog face, visits my bunk. I don’t even pull off my headphones, just direct him to the DVD stack. Peripherally noticing him still standing there after while, I look up from Boccaccio ‘70 to find the bulldog looking hangdog. “Nothing?” I ask. “Come on, man. Just try one. I know they look sorta weird and old, but what’s to lose by trying?” “Na,” he says. Then his eyes go wide. He is looking at my LCD screen. Sophia Loren is bouncing around silently in a tight red dress, in front of several grubby, horny rural yokels. “What you watching?” “Boccaccio ‘70.” “Oh, one a those old school pornos.” “No. Well, sorta. Look at this.” I rewind to a scene where Sophia, as a carnival worker offered as the prize in a lottery, causes a frenzy by bending over to pick something up in from of the nasty men. A moment later, a bull breaks loose and starts to charge at her crimson dress until she strips down to her lingerie and tosses the dress aside. “See?” I said. “She’s built like Buffie the Body, right?” “Like Melyssa Ford.” “Gloria Velez.” “Esther Baxter.” “Like Ice-T’s wife.” “Which one?” “All of ‘em.” Big Biswas is grinning harder than the yokels as Sophia teases and pouts and struts across my ten inch screen. I got him. “You wanna borrow this one, don’t you, man?” He takes a moment, freeing his eyes from the screen only when Vittorio De Sica cuts away from Sophia. “Nah, that’s okay,” he says. “I like the new pornos better.” To each his own. I never push too hard, not wanting to become as obnoxious as the nostalgic village squire in Powell and Pressvurger’s A Canterbury Tale–another library disc treated like a leper round here. “You sound mighty condescending,” says a critic colleague of mine when I complain that, as starved as my floormates at the house are for cine-nutrition, the mainstream films they digest provide little more than carbs and sodium. The critic protests, “Let folks see what they wanna see. These are the movies they chose to watch.” “Well, I feel it’s more like the movies are choosing them.” “Not everybody needs to watch Renoir, Welles and Mizoguchi.” “Now who’s condescending? Why should Renoir, Welles and Mizoguchi be VIP-only? Those are some of the most accessible movies ever made. Why don’t we have Renoir, Welles and Mizoguchi type filmmakers turning out Dark Knights and Tropic Thunders?” “Don’t hold your breath.” I’m holding my breath, but not my tongue: These movies are killing us in the stealthy manner of mercury-laden toothpaste, hypothermia and deep fried sugar wings. Taste buds massaged, body benumbed, poisons working silently into the bloodstream until death starts to feel like sweet slumber. The politics of it all: When the town well is poisoned, the poorest and weakest drop first. The ones who can afford expensive treatments manage to live through the ailment, scarred but not destroyed. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Mediocre_or_some_B_Movies_that_You_WOULD_like_to_s/222/25508/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: divinemsjunebug
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Post Date: 2/23/2008 12:22:26 PM
Body: We've talked a lot about the "horror" of seeing our favorite movies from the past being remade. What are some okay movies that you've seen and liked and thought - Wow, that would be SOOOOO cool if this was made again with today's technology.
]]>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:22:26 GMTdivinemsjunebugHORROR MOVIES 1012/23/2008 12:22:26 PMWe've talked a lot about the "horror" of seeing our favorite movies from the past being remade. What are some okay movies that you've seen and liked and thought - Wow, that would be SOOOOO cool if this was made again with today's technology. http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_Really_Cheesy_a_k_a_Drive_In_Horror_Movies/222/9890/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: divinemsjunebug
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Post Date: 6/1/2007 1:23:50 AM
Body: Hey Greg, that is a really nice story about you and your dad. It sounds like the two of you had a great relationship. I wish my dad and I would have been close but he had issues. But we did stay up late and watch Friday Fright Night together, etc. But that is about as close as we got.I can just imagine about your LOVE MACHINE station wagons. You would probably say, it's so much more comfortable if we just lay down back here, I PROMISE I will be a gentlemen...he he. Most of the drive-ins in Kansas City are all gone too. I think there is one out here in Seattle, but I don't think it's in the best neighborhood. Anyway, my friends and I would go in high school to the late, late night drive in show. Believe it or NOT they would show 1970s PORN at the DRIVE IN. The screen must have faced away from the highway because I can just imagine driving by with your family and you look up to see a sex scene. Anyway, that is where I saw Debbie Does Dallas, Deep Throat, The Grass is Always Greener, Behind the Green Door, and they also showed a lot of those Emmanuel movies (I don't know if anyone remembers the soft port movies on Cinemax)...anyway, that was really interesting. Of course we were so immature at the time we would honk our horn at certain scenes...those were the days. hee hee hee. Those are great movies too, later fun B movies. I also remember a theater in the artsy part of town in Kansas CIty that used to play fun movies at midnight, of course most of the time it was the Rocky Horror Picture Show, BUT they would show a lot of double features like Night of the Living Dead and Carnival of Souls OR Last House on the Left and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, that was really fun. I wish they would show some of those again on the big screen...I have to throw in something here, you all need to rent a van and come out here to SEATTLE. It is sooooo friggin gorgeous here in the summer time. I got home from my jazz choir practice and went up to the rooftop garden and just sat out there for a little while and talked to some people, it's probably 69 degrees with a nice breeze. Oh my God, it's beautiful tonight, and it stays light until about 9:45 p.m. which is just incredible. ANYWAY, just had to share how beautiful it is out here- this would be the PERFECT night to go to the DRIVE-IN - any takers? ;0)June
]]>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:23:50 GMTdivinemsjunebugHORROR MOVIES 1016/1/2007 1:23:50 AMHey Greg, that is a really nice story about you and your dad. It sounds like the two of you had a great relationship. I wish my dad and I would have been close but he had issues. But we did stay up late and watch Friday Fright Night together, etc. But that is about as close as we got.I can just imagine about your LOVE MACHINE station wagons. You would probably say, it's so much more comfortable if we just lay down back here, I PROMISE I will be a gentlemen...he he. Most of the drive-ins in Kansas City are all gone too. I think there is one out here in Seattle, but I don't think it's in the best neighborhood. Anyway, my friends and I would go in high school to the late, late night drive in show. Believe it or NOT they would show 1970s PORN at the DRIVE IN. The screen must have faced away from the highway because I can just imagine driving by with your family and you look up to see a sex scene. Anyway, that is where I saw Debbie Does Dallas, Deep Throat, The Grass is Always Greener, Behind the Green Door, and they also showed a lot of those Emmanuel movies (I don't know if anyone remembers the soft port movies on Cinemax)...anyway, that was really interesting. Of course we were so immature at the time we would honk our horn at certain scenes...those were the days. hee hee hee. Those are great movies too, later fun B movies. I also remember a theater in the artsy part of town in Kansas CIty that used to play fun movies at midnight, of course most of the time it was the Rocky Horror Picture Show, BUT they would show a lot of double features like Night of the Living Dead and Carnival of Souls OR Last House on the Left and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, that was really fun. I wish they would show some of those again on the big screen...I have to throw in something here, you all need to rent a van and come out here to SEATTLE. It is sooooo friggin gorgeous here in the summer time. I got home from my jazz choir practice and went up to the rooftop garden and just sat out there for a little while and talked to some people, it's probably 69 degrees with a nice breeze. Oh my God, it's beautiful tonight, and it stays light until about 9:45 p.m. which is just incredible. ANYWAY, just had to share how beautiful it is out here- this would be the PERFECT night to go to the DRIVE-IN - any takers? ;0)June http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/murder/MemberTagFilms.aspxmurder
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