Good point. Plus the eerie sight of the pavillion on the horizon. Top stuff!

It was a very low-key moment, but when she was driving across country and lost all reception on her radio. She kept trying to change the channel, but nothing would work - we just kept hearing that disturbing, atonal organ music instead of the happy, peppy music she'd been listening to before. I know that would REALLY bother me if it happened to me - that feeling of being all alone, and ordinary things are behaving strangely and you don't know why, but it just hints at all sorts of scary things approaching.
Flat, drab passion meanders across the screen!

I really think all parts with the mans face, that grin is just horrible.
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Agreed - wicked soundtrack. Something very eerie about organs.
Scariest part - first time you see the ghostly/zombie face in the window of her car. Seen some pretty nasty films in my time but this really stuck with me

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When the ghosts are running after her on the beach.
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Easily the eeriest film score ever! Totally creepy!

I agree the ending is VERY creepy. But I also am creeped out
big time
by the scenes where the souls come up out of the water and grin slowly at the camera. They look so much like they are grinning..at US!
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The first two times the man appeared, it was scary, but soon it got repetitive. But by the time she got to the first "silent" section, the action had picked up again. I thought the final twist was a tad predictable, as was the part where the Doctor with his turned back was the man. I love how she often just stood around for a while, would stare at the man for five seconds, and THEN scream and run away.
But my favorite scary parts would have to be when she tries to board the ghost bus. I was expecting to see the man as the bus driver, but not a whole bus full of zombies! However, I have to give the grand prize to her date with the neighbor. After they go to her room, and she sits down at the vanity, feels his hand on her shoulder, and looks in the mirror only to see the ghost-man, with the neighbor standing no where near her! Downright brilliant. Great movie.

The whole movie experience had an unworldly eeriness about it. The black and white cinematography was exceptional, and it was, in my memory the first to use sound, to get a chilling effect. The walk in the park when all background sounds disappear. Chilling. The organ music turning hellish as the camera dwells on the stained glass window showing the devil cast down. The Haunted pavilion was magnificent, so forlorn in the middle of Nowhere. Been many years since I've seen it,when the mood strikes, I wouldn't mind viewing it again.

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.

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!
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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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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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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!

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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Oh yes, the organ music makes this movie!
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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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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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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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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.

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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.