Just when you think you've seen every bad movie filmed in your home town along comes Carnival of Souls, a movie from 1962 filmed on a near-nothing budget of all places right here in Salt Lake City with the old Saltair amusement park and a bunch of other shots downtown. (Another interesting note is that it is also filmed in Kansas. What an odd connection, eh Richelle? Richelle is originally from Kansas, you see.) The movie is kind of a Night of the Living Dead thing with some great performances by Candace Hilligloss as a woman and caught between the living and the dead who is strangely drawn to the old pavillion out by the lake, and Sidney Berger who is strangely drawn to Candace Hilligloss. Whatever your bad movie needs, Carnival has it: creepy organ playing, inn keepers who appear to be having strokes on screen, swing-dancing, pasty-faced dead, and the Great Salt Lake. It has some of the best lines I've heard in a long time.

How in the hell had I never heard of this movie before? I guess I should see Wes Craven's remake.

Well at least I can say I saw Rubin and Ed in the theaters. That's right, I am the king of the echo people.

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Singing.
Silly, idiotic words that would
Never
Roll out of your mouth any other time
Tumble
Across the air like tree cotton