What was the most creepiest part of the movie for you?
For me it was the end when Mary was chased out on to the lake bed by the Souls and to see Mary's foot print in the sand suddenly stop and that shot of her hand print.
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Well, at the beginning with the face in the car window...that was like "um...yeah, why did this get a 7.1 rating again?" But as it continued, holy crap did it get freaky! I'd have to say the creepiest part(s) would be...
...the dancing part, with that zombie-esque looking lady (was that the main character?) kind of rolling her head two and fro.
...the part where she sees the zombie-esque guy downstairs and the door shakes like he's trying to get in. Totally reminded me of, like, the only freaky part in The Shining (in the novel that is).
...and the whole zombie-esque people on the bus. You totally knew when the only thing you heard was the loudspeaker talking in the bus station that that's where they were hiding. I practically yelled at the TV trying to tell her not to go on there.
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...oh yeah, I forgot!! The part where she visits the carnival the first time, and she tosses the rock into the water and then it switches to the guy laying under water! Freaky!
Oh yeah, and the Priest...Father...church leader and her neighbor were so freaky!
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The face in car window was nicely done.
I dont know what you're complaining about.
I wasn't complaining about anything...I just said it was kind of cheesy for a highly rated movie.
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It wasn't cheesy,it was neatly done and creepy too,especially for a movie this old.
Maybe you should stick with "I know what you did last summer".
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yeah i recon those dead people on the bus, that was one of the creepiest things ive seen from a movie made that long ago! and the guy floating up to the top of the water was scary too.
i guess the whole bad quality black and white copy i watched it in made it even creepier.
There were two for me:
The first, when she zones out while playing the church organ and goes into a nebulous funk, drifting off into hellish, calliope-like riffs before be being abruptly interrupted by the minister.
Also, when she's in the clothing store and people sometimes interact with her and at other times act as if she isn't there. Truly nightmarish.
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I'm going to pick a really quiet but effective moment in the film--the point at which Mary is leaving town after the accident, and stops her car on the bridge to look down at the water for a moment. That's when I knew I was in for a frightening viewing experience. No dialogue...just some nice black-and-white photography, a wisp of uneasy music, and a look of foreboding on Mary's face. Subtle, but striking! It was kind of like being outside at the end of a long, humid summer and feeling the first chill of autumn in the air.
shareYour comment demonstrates how truly unique and attuned to our innermost senses and fears this film is. I hesitate to recommend it to certain people, even though it's probably the best of it's kind. Part of it's greatness is how profoundly disturbing it is. Much more so than vampires, meat cleavers and airborne body parts.
shareYes, "Carnival" is rejected out of hand by certain types of horror film fans, unfortunately. It is a film that requires the viewer to get in touch with his or her fear of the unknown--and as you say, many people have been so desensitized by the glut of hacksaw murders, stage blood, and prosthetics in "horror" movies of recent years that it's difficult for them to relate to subtle, psychological horror.
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MY37, that brief scene with the slide and the mat scared the crackers out of me. It was just so sudden and random, and that whooshing, hissing sound seemed so LOUD after the silence of the previous moments. And worse yet...who was at the top of the slide and gave that mat a push?
Oh. Now I'm all creeped out. I'd better watch "Annie" or "Moonstruck" or I won't get any sleep tonight.
I'm going to pick a really quiet but effective moment in the film--the point at which Mary is leaving town after the accident, and stops her car on the bridge to look down at the water for a moment. That's when I knew I was in for a frightening viewing experience. No dialogue...just some nice black-and-white photography, a wisp of uneasy music, and a look of foreboding on Mary's face. Subtle, but striking! It was kind of like being outside at the end of a long, humid summer and feeling the first chill of autumn in the air.
Quite a few creepy moments in this gem. What unsettled me most was when she is driving to her new home and she passes the amusement park. Just seeing it all shadowy with the fading daylight behind it gave me chills. It was just a damn spooky place. When she looks down the stairwell and sees The Man looking up at her, then come the slow deliberate steps up to the stairs as she hides in her room....scary stuff...
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My scariest part is when the man appears in her car window as she's passing the pavillion for the first time. But that whole drive, with the eerie organ music on her radio and the oppressive darkness closing in around her, is extremely spooky.
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Oh yes, the organ music makes this movie!
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It's been a while since I've seen it, but I remember when the gouls are dancing and 'The Man' slowy starts toward the camera (Mary's point of view). It was about four in the morning, I'm in the living room with all the lights out and I'm genuinely freaked out. The following night I had my girlfriend at the time watch this film. Same setting, lights out/middle of the night, and when that part comes up see actually covers her eyes and asks me to shut it off.
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it has to be the part where she's driving at night and all of a sudden we see the reflection of "the guy" in the passenger side window ... oh holy hell i almost peed myself the first time i saw that (when i was like 10) and still to this day it gives me the creepy crawlies!
shareAny shot of The Man coming towards the camera literally had me covering my eyes.
And the part where she's on the awful date with her neighbor and she feels his hands on her, and then she looks up and it's The Man with this twisted, perverse smile on his face.
This movie will forever turn me off the organ, which I already hated with a burning passion.
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Well, there was quite a few, like the part where she is playing the organ, and sees the dead guy, comes to and it's the priest and he tells her that she doesn't have a soul. Or in the auto repair shop. But the creepiest part for me was the very end as the car is pull out of the river and Mary is in it with the other two women. I didn't see that coming the first time that I saw it.
I loved the dance/waltz scene of the dead.
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The film was well creepy. For me it was the part where she's talking to her Doctor and when he turns around it's one of those zombies and then she SCREAMS!
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I just watched this about a week ago and the scene where she boards the bus and all the "souls" are sitting in the seats with those ghastly grins on thier faces really got to me. It made me shutter. I actually reversed the DVD to watch this scene again and it still got to me. Good, creepy fun.
shareThe whole movie experience had an unworldly eeriness about it. The black and white cinematography was exceptional, and it was, in my memory the first to use sound, to get a chilling effect. The walk in the park when all background sounds disappear. Chilling. The organ music turning hellish as the camera dwells on the stained glass window showing the devil cast down. The Haunted pavilion was magnificent, so forlorn in the middle of Nowhere. Been many years since I've seen it,when the mood strikes, I wouldn't mind viewing it again.
shareThe first two times the man appeared, it was scary, but soon it got repetitive. But by the time she got to the first "silent" section, the action had picked up again. I thought the final twist was a tad predictable, as was the part where the Doctor with his turned back was the man. I love how she often just stood around for a while, would stare at the man for five seconds, and THEN scream and run away.
But my favorite scary parts would have to be when she tries to board the ghost bus. I was expecting to see the man as the bus driver, but not a whole bus full of zombies! However, I have to give the grand prize to her date with the neighbor. After they go to her room, and she sits down at the vanity, feels his hand on her shoulder, and looks in the mirror only to see the ghost-man, with the neighbor standing no where near her! Downright brilliant. Great movie.