灵魂狂欢节Carnival of Souls

剧情简介Synopsis

导演赫克·哈维唯一的剧情长片，以拍摄工业教育片的经验用极少的预算完成。年轻女子在汽车坠河后奇迹生还，此后不断被苍白的幽灵纠缠，并被湖畔一座废弃游乐场莫名吸引。冷峻的构图与管风琴配乐使它在多年后被重新发现，影响了大卫·林奇等后来的创作者。Carnival of Souls is a 1962 American neo-noir psychological horror film produced and directed by Herk Harvey in his sole directorial credit. The screenplay written by John Clifford from a story by Clifford and Harvey, and starring Candace Hilligoss. Its plot follows Mary Henry, a young woman whose life is disturbed after a car accident. She relocates to a new city, where she finds herself unable to assimilate with the locals, and becomes drawn to the pavilion of an abandoned carnival. Herk Harvey also appears in the film as a ghoulish stranger who stalks her throughout. The film is set to an organ score by Gene Moore. Filmed in Lawrence, Kansas, and Salt Lake City, Carnival of Souls was shot on a budget of $33,000, and Harvey employed various guerrilla filmmaking techniques to finish the production. The film is loosely based on the French short An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961), an adaptation of the 1890 story of the same name by Ambrose Bierce, and Harvey was inspired by the visual style of filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman and Jean Cocteau. Carnival of Souls was Harvey's only feature film, and did not gain widespread attention when originally released as a double feature with the now mostly forgotten The Devil's Messenger in 1962. Since the 1980s, the film has been noted by critics and film scholars for its cinematography and foreboding atmosphere. The film has a large cult following and is occasionally screened at film and Halloween festivals.