Saturday, October 5, 2013

I’m in Love with a Ghost







Candace Hilligoss, playing the ontologically-challenged Mary Henry, in Carnival of Souls, a 1962 cult classic – at least according to wikipedia and IMDB; I’ve never heard of it until I watched it Friday night on TCM. I was immediately enraptured.

The best I can come up with to describe the atmosphere of this flick, a spiraling dance of the weird and creepy, is some mishmash like creepiweir and weirdicreepid, or, better yet, some damned hybrid of Shyamalan-meets-Lovecraft. Whatever word is settled upon is only pronounced in your mind with a whispered menace ...

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