Carnival of Souls is about a young woman who is in a drag racing accident and somehow survives. She is meant to be starting a new life in Utah as a church organist but everyone warns her she needs to have soul to play. She begins seeing visions of a man with a ghastly white face everywhere she goes. At her new boarding house, the creep across the hall makes advances on her. She sometimes goes into a state where she can't hear anything and no one can see her. Worst of all, she is drawn to an old lakeside pavilion where the souls of the damned come out to dance at night. Can this mixed up girl get her life straightened out?
First, I must say, if you can't guess the ending of this movie fairly quickly, you may not have ever seen a horror movie before. If that is the case, welcome! The organ music throughout does a great job of indicating the creepy times versus the normal ones for our heroine. The lost souls of the pavilion are quite creepy and more than a little reminded me of Night of the Living Dead, which would come out seven years later. This movie can be a little languid at times but, overall, is better than it really has a right to be.
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