Hervey's tale of a withdrawn church organist (Candice Hilligoss) who survives a car accident only to be followed by a strange pale faced ghoul, delivers chills and holds the viewers attention without the use of elaborate effects or any CGI computer bullshit.

Hilligoss and her buddies go flying into a lake after their drag racing car makes a wrong move. Hilligoss emerges from the water in a dazed state she is unable to recover from. She begins having strange hallucinations where she can hear no sounds and is visited by a horrifying apparition of a man with a pasty white face. The film has an odd poetry to it as Hilligoss floats about society unable to connect with people and her surroundings.

The highlight of Carnival of Souls has to be the surreal dance of the damned sequence at the end, Bizarre and ridiculous but at the same time horrifying and fascinating to watch. The question I have is what ever became of the beautiful lead actress Candice Hilligoss's career?! Her dreamy performance and odd beauty should have assured her a place in scream queen history, instead I've only been able to locate her appearance in one other film, Curse of the Living Corpse.

When Harvey was asked if he was worried about the film being too strange he replied: "Very much so. Not so much when we were making it as when we were putting it together in the editing stage. I thought it was kind of far out for its time. Most horror films, even then, really weren't that Bizarre...."