Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962)Messiah of Evil (Gloria Katz; Willard Huyck, 1973)“While the ci
Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962)Messiah of Evil (Gloria Katz; Willard Huyck, 1973)“While the cinematic descendants of Carnival of Souls are many (George Romero credited it as an inspiration for the zombie makeup of Night of the Living Dead), the funereal tone and odd pacing of Harvey’s film probably find their closest complement in Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck’s 1973 indie Messiah of Evil, specifically in its strategically placed silences and in Anitra Ford’s famous scene in a Ralphs supermarket. As with that memorable sequence, in which the strangeness of her environment only slowly occurs to Ford’s endangered character, Carnival of Souls’ Mary is in a department store changing room when she has an intuition that something has (rather fittingly) changed. When she emerges, she is invisible to everyone around her. The previously helpful retail attendant looks past her to other customers, and neither can Mary hear the words that seem to be coming out of moving mouths. Her response is telling — she reaches up to her neck to feel her pulse.” — Kier-La Janisse. -- source link
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