# Carnival of Souls (1962)

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**Runtime**: 78 min
**Genres**: Horror, Mystery, Fantasy
**Directed by**: Herk Harvey
**Written by**: Herk Harvey, John Clifford
**Starring**: Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey, Sidney Berger, Frances Feist, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt

> *She Escaped Death. Now It Wants Her Back!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Utah outskirts at dusk, calliope music fading, a lone organ. 
A church organist's visions of a fiendish man intensify. 
This low-budget horror classic anticipates the atmospheric chills of later genre films.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, dread, surreal

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