https://vo.rs/tags/carnival-of-souls/Latest from the Carnival of Souls desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/carnival-of-souls-the-cheap-film-that-haunted-everyone/<p>In 1962, a man who made industrial and educational films for a company in Lawrence, Kansas, took roughly three weeks and thirty thousand dollars and directed a ghost story that has outlasted almost everything from its year. His name was Herk Harvey, <em>Carnival of Souls</em> was his only feature, and by any reasonable accounting it should have vanished. It flopped, fell into public domain, drifted through late-night television and cut-price video bins for decades — and in that drifting it seeded itself into the imaginations of some of the most important filmmakers who came after. George Romero, David Lynch, the makers of a hundred dream-logic horrors: all of them carry a little of this cheap, strange, unshakeable film.</p>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000