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“Herk Harvey’s ‘Carnival of Souls’ is not an unequivocal, sanguinary horror as is the contemporary norm, it does not feature a tangible, monstrous entity or knife-wielding maniac and its existential core principles are indirectly conveyed, manifested in the form of an inexplicable evil. There is an insidiously creeping corniness and awkwardness at play akin to 1950s drive-in movies preceding the appearance of the ubiquitous soul, amplifying the notion of the film being a subconscious projection. Dreams in general are improbable or germane, they are decidedly perplexing and elaborate, perhaps even shabby and amiss, however, this surreal suffusion is a paradox; Harvey used newsreel cameras to meet budgetary restraints, and in doing so, inadvertently intensified the film’s spectral qua” read more
Films watched in 2019
Films watched 2019
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Slant’s 100 Greatest Horror Films – 2018 Edition (100 movies items)"Herk Harvey’s Carnival of Souls certainly benefits from the discrepancy that exists between its fantastically subjective vision and raw and inconsistent vérité formality. The filmmaking includes compositions of startling sophistication as well as flat images and threadbare effects that wouldn’t be out of place in a 1950s-era drive-in monster movie, collectively conjuring a kind of uncanny banality that would greatly influence George Romero and David Lynch, among others. Harvey creates a fi"
Movies Watched in 2018
scary bitches: 10 alluring horror heroines (10 movies items)" Mary Henry, the Persephone of Utah This just might be my favourite film of all time, so I will basically become full of empty praises while I write this like Herk Harvey is my lord and I am his humble sheep. The atmosphere you get from this film is in between dreamy and nightmarish. And Mary seems trapped in this hazy world of ghosts and ghouls flanked by piety and sleaze as well. She emerges unscathed from a traumatic car accident that nobody else survives, and proceeds to go on a road "
2018 Movie Journal
Watched in 2018
Watched in 2017 From best to worst (Commented) (37 movies items)"The music! The camerawork! This is a masterpiece from wherever you look at it, it's directed flawlessly. First and only Herk Harvey's film. Look up for his filmography on IMDb, you won't believe it. "
“Protagonist,a young girl called Mary and his two friends participate in a car race with another car and somehow at the bridge, their driver loses con”
SPOILER ALERT Characters Who Didn't Realize... (4 movies items)"Mary After Mary drives off a bridge drag-racing some boys, Mary crawls out of the river with no memory of how she survived. Obviously, she’s dead as hell. However, unlike Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense, everybody can see her and talk to her."
