Creepiest part for you….
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mayonaise002 — 18 years ago(February 09, 2008 01:15 AM)
yeah i recon those dead people on the bus, that was one of the creepiest things ive seen from a movie made that long ago! and the guy floating up to the top of the water was scary too.
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guanche — 18 years ago(February 21, 2008 12:29 PM)
There were two for me:
The first, when she zones out while playing the church organ and goes into a nebulous funk, drifting off into hellish, calliope-like riffs before be being abruptly interrupted by the minister.
Also, when she's in the clothing store and people sometimes interact with her and at other times act as if she isn't there. Truly nightmarish.
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InjunNose — 18 years ago(March 18, 2008 02:34 PM)
I'm going to pick a really quiet but effective moment in the filmthe point at which Mary is leaving town after the accident, and stops her car on the bridge to look down at the water for a moment. That's when I knew I was in for a frightening viewing experience. No dialoguejust some nice black-and-white photography, a wisp of uneasy music, and a look of foreboding on Mary's face. Subtle, but striking! It was kind of like being outside at the end of a long, humid summer and feeling the first chill of autumn in the air.
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guanche — 18 years ago(March 19, 2008 09:24 AM)
Your comment demonstrates how truly unique and attuned to our innermost senses and fears this film is. I hesitate to recommend it to certain people, even though it's probably the best of it's kind. Part of it's greatness is how profoundly disturbing it is. Much more so than vampires, meat cleavers and airborne body parts.
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InjunNose — 18 years ago(March 19, 2008 02:01 PM)
Yes, "Carnival" is rejected out of hand by certain types of horror film fans, unfortunately. It is a film that requires the viewer to get in touch with his or her fear of the unknownand as you say, many people have been so desensitized by the glut of hacksaw murders, stage blood, and prosthetics in "horror" movies of recent years that it's difficult for them to relate to subtle, psychological horror.
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sheathe — 16 years ago(May 23, 2009 09:29 PM)
MY37, that brief scene with the slide and the mat scared the crackers out of me. It was just so sudden and random, and that whooshing, hissing sound seemed so LOUD after the silence of the previous moments. And worse yetwho was at the top of the slide and gave that mat a push?
Oh. Now I'm all creeped out. I'd better watch "Annie" or "Moonstruck" or I won't get any sleep tonight. -
MrBook_ — 15 years ago(November 01, 2010 10:28 PM)
I'm going to pick a really quiet but effective moment in the filmthe point at which Mary is leaving town after the accident, and stops her car on the bridge to look down at the water for a moment. That's when I knew I was in for a frightening viewing experience. No dialoguejust some nice black-and-white photography, a wisp of uneasy music, and a look of foreboding on Mary's face. Subtle, but striking! It was kind of like being outside at the end of a long, humid summer and feeling the first chill of autumn in the air.
Oh, yeah, I love those little subtle things. As much as I love some of the "louder" moments with the Man and the other phantom people, those little quiet moments make the movie in their own way. I also love the bits where she's just wandering around the pavilion, even before she sees anything. I tend to take long walks and wander into strange places, and the bit where she goes out onto the large roofed deck and looks out reminds me of a hundred nameless and half-forgotten places I've wandered when alone and bored. It
feels
like that sort of haunting, charged atmosphere of a strange, isolated place that should have people in it but doesn't. I'm glad I came here; reading people's comments and writing my own, I'm realizing even more than I did before that this movie is one of a kind.
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Bflogal11 — 17 years ago(April 13, 2008 01:13 PM)
Quite a few creepy moments in this gem. What unsettled me most was when she is driving to her new home and she passes the amusement park. Just seeing it all shadowy with the fading daylight behind it gave me chills. It was just a damn spooky place. When she looks down the stairwell and sees The Man looking up at her, then come the slow deliberate steps up to the stairs as she hides in her room.scary stuff
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porfle — 17 years ago(April 17, 2008 10:09 PM)
My scariest part is when the man appears in her car window as she's passing the pavillion for the first time. But that whole drive, with the eerie organ music on her radio and the oppressive darkness closing in around her, is extremely spooky.
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DanielWRichardson — 17 years ago(May 27, 2008 01:19 AM)
It's been a while since I've seen it, but I remember when the gouls are dancing and 'The Man' slowy starts toward the camera (Mary's point of view). It was about four in the morning, I'm in the living room with all the lights out and I'm genuinely freaked out. The following night I had my girlfriend at the time watch this film. Same setting, lights out/middle of the night, and when that part comes up see actually covers her eyes and asks me to shut it off.
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patenck — 17 years ago(September 11, 2008 03:16 PM)
it has to be the part where she's driving at night and all of a sudden we see the reflection of "the guy" in the passenger side window oh holy hell i almost peed myself the first time i saw that (when i was like 10) and still to this day it gives me the creepy crawlies!
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Goodbye_Ruby_Tuesday — 17 years ago(July 27, 2008 04:04 PM)
Any shot of The Man coming towards the camera literally had me covering my eyes.
And the part where she's on the awful date with her neighbor and she feels his hands on her, and then she looks up and it's The Man with this twisted, perverse smile on his face.
This movie will forever turn me off the organ, which I already hated with a burning passion.
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TheeMortyToad — 17 years ago(August 25, 2008 10:22 AM)
Well, there was quite a few, like the part where she is playing the organ, and sees the dead guy, comes to and it's the priest and he tells her that she doesn't have a soul. Or in the auto repair shop. But the creepiest part for me was the very end as the car is pull out of the river and Mary is in it with the other two women. I didn't see that coming the first time that I saw it.
I loved the dance/waltz scene of the dead.
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silent-skies — 17 years ago(September 03, 2008 10:00 AM)
The film was well creepy. For me it was the part where she's talking to her Doctor and when he turns around it's one of those zombies and then she SCREAMS!
"I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you stranger."- The Joker
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Knewsense78 — 17 years ago(September 15, 2008 01:44 PM)
I just watched this about a week ago and the scene where she boards the bus and all the "souls" are sitting in the seats with those ghastly grins on thier faces really got to me. It made me shutter. I actually reversed the DVD to watch this scene again and it still got to me. Good, creepy fun.