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Carnival of Souls

Worthless time waster that has a central character whose predicament is so obvious from the get go that what follows can only be described as interminable! Add to the mix a horrible script,ham fisted direction and some of the most inane and ludicrous dialogue ever put to film and you have one of the worst remakes ever made--make that one of the worst movies ever made,as this has little to do with the original!! See the brilliant original instead of this abomination. Executive producer Wes Craven has done much to destroy the horror movie genre and this is his piece de resistance. Again, this is totally worthless and completely absurd!

I completely understand why so many people did not get what they expected from this film. It WAS NOT what you would expect seeing WES CRAVEN's name and with the "horror" marketing. I actually liked this film and agree with those that call it a "psychological thriller". That's EXACTLY what it is. Very understated. It deals with the mind set of Alex (Bobbie Phillips) and her coming to terms with a traumatic childhood. It is not a teen horror movie...NOT EVEN CLOSE. But I would highly recommend it as a psychological thriller for more mature and intelligent viewers. Also, I must add, I thought it was a terrific remake because why would they copy the original exactly? The main character is dealing with the same kind of internal demons as in the original but it's a New story...If you want the original...Watch the original!

Spare yourself and see Herk Harvey's original film. The director's cut is particularly good. This movie loses the ideas of the original, and I'm sorry, but Larry Miller is not menacing. I'm not sure whose idea it was to try to 'reimagine' this movie, but it certainly doesn't work on any level. If I hadn't seen the original, I would have been very confused by what they were trying to say with this one.

It's hard to find a remake that actually does justice to the original,but this one is almost downright insulting. Thre story has very little,if anything,to do with the one of the original.And whos idea was it to cast Larry Miller as the bad guy ?He is so terribly miscast. One thing I noticed about all the positive reviews is that they say the movie should be considered a 'drama' instead of horror.Please tell me,why name it after a horror movie if it's supposed to be a drama ? I would never believe a 40 year old original could still outdo a modern remake but apparently it can.

This movie jumped around so much, my stomach felt like a lotto tumbler. I can't believe they made this traipse! I couldn't make any sense of what was going on. It would just go from one scene, then reveal that to be a delusion, only to go to another scene, which was a delusion, then return to the first. Multiply that by about ten times and that's how confusing the movie got. And, to boot, nothing happened! What a rip!

What a waste of perfectly good film stock. This movie tried far too hard to be artsy instead of concentrating on finding a good script, director and actors. The performances were abysmal and wooden. This was a remake in name only incredibly misleading. I found my concentration drifting constantly because this mess wasn't worth my attention span. I admit I'm a huge fan of bad movies but this was worse than bad-it was completely uninteresting.

This is perhaps the worst movie I have seen in my entire life, and I have seen some really bad films. This movie was extremely boring, had zero plot, and no decent acting to speak of. The limited special effects are nothing noteworthy, either. I had a hard time staying awake, and when it was over, I wished I had fallen asleep instead of subjecting myself to such torture. I can't believe that Wes Craven would put his name on such a dismal failure. If you were thinking of watching this film, don't waste your time or money. Rent something better, such as the original Carnival of Souls (1962).