So, brace yourself, because a lot of you are probably going to be mad at me in a minute, but I have to call ‘em like I see ‘em.  People are always coming up to me and asking me about movies.  Now, some of them I’ve seen, but most I haven’t.  And, out of a feeling of guilt, more than anything else, sometimes I disguise myself, go to my video store and rent one of these ‘classics’ just to say I’ve seen it, if nothing else.

     Well, the movie I picked was Carnival of Souls.  I keep hearing that this was the movie that inspired Romero to make Night of the Living Dead.  Then I heard what a ‘creepy classic’ it was and that is was one of the best ‘b’ movies ever made, so I figured that those were pretty good recommendations, so I wanted to check it out.  Now, I’ve got to tell you, I went in expecting a whole lot of movie and what I got was one of the biggest yawn-fests I’ve ever seen!  I was asking myself how they got 172 hours of movie on one videotape!

     Here’s the story, I think.  There’s a car race over a bridge, then there’s a crash and only one person walks away, a blonde woman.  Well, the woman leaves town to escape the memory of the crash; she goes to another town to become a church organist.  It turns out that to be a church organist you’ve gotta practice about six hours a day and apparently the pay is pretty good, go figure!  Anyway, there’s an abandoned carnival, with a bunch of guys that have that mime makeup on, and then I dozed off briefly and then it turns out that she’s already dead and she didn’t know it, the end.

     How people think that this is a classic is, frankly, beyond me!  It’s dull; the only thing frightening about it is how long it is.  I thought my brain was going to sue me for abuse.  And, honestly, I don’t think I fell asleep so much as I passed out from sheer boredom!  Carnival of Souls is one of those movies that you tell people that you’ve seen, but never actually see it.  It’s bad, bad, bad!!  If you want to waste your time with a movie, go get Leprechaun, at least it’s funny!!  And until the next time, remember the best movies are bad movies.