Carnival of souls
The original black and white classic movie of 1962
(Not another by the same name)
got a ahowing on halloween night.
It's most noticeable for its well crafted eerieness, when the heroine
Finds that nobody hears her, and people totally ignore her,
and that the streets and people are silent.
She phases out of this world.
The revenants rise from the lake water,
because they want her to join in their dance of the dead.
They are very classy, with the typical Hollywood zombie
dark ringed eyes, but we assume that they are the spirits of the drowned.
She leaves our world, only returning to it, when she passes
beneath trees, in the park, sunlight streaming down through the leaves, and
she can hear a bird twittering again.
Living by the sea, it's easy to see the attraction of an old deserted
dance house on a pier over the water. After all, the
South Coast has piers which look like that, some derelict,
and ruinous like the second burnt out Brighton pier.
when i was at college someone in the dorm played a haunting,
Disturbing tune with the refrain
"I went to the fair,
but there was nobody there"
through which i had many sleepless nights!
Or something like that, but at what is really out there?
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