When Mary Henry plays the organ, her finger and foot actions do not match the organ music on the soundtrack.
Mary Henry's footfalls don't match her on-screen steps as she dashes into and through bus depot.
Camera crew reflected in the boys' car during drag race.
In the film's concluding shot, the left eyelid of one of the "dead" young women in the car noticeably twitches.
The coffee cups are translucent when neighbor brings coffee which reveals that they have only poured an inch in each and that they're not drinking.
Many of the long shots were looped in the crowd scene following the accident, and other shots were dubbed with the audio track from other shots with which they were intercut.
The audio and the mouth movements of the actors drift in and out of sync across the various shots in this scene.
Mary Henry's hair is dry and blows in the breeze right after she has supposedly climbed out of the water.
When Mary falls into her trance the night she is playing organ alone in church, we see that she is playing the organ's pedals with her bare feet.
But when the minister interrupts her playing and fires her, and she gets up from the organ to leave the church, she is wearing black loafers.
Then when she steps outside the front steps to meet the waiting neighbor guy, she is wearing white heels.
In the scene where Mary is first in the doctor's office her arm is on the desk, then in the next shot it's on the arm chair.
In the department store where Mary discovers she is "invisible" she goes down an aisle with both hands out to her sides and clearly has no purse.
The scene cuts to her leaving the store where she now has her purse.
In the racing scene the driver of the white car is quite active at the steering wheel while the car keeps going straight forward.
At the end of the scene, she pulls the steering wheel to the left while the car moves extremely to the right side.
Mary's head is facing straight ahead when it is shown that she is dead in the car at the end.
In the next second, the new shot shows her facing to the side towards the camera.
The service station garage, supposedly in Utah, has a poster on its wall advertising a sports show on TV station WIBW in Topeka, Kansas.
(While it's generally true that broadcast stations west of the Mississippi River have call letters beginning with "K" instead of "W," WIBW is an actual station which still carries the same call letters today.
) When Mary talks with the doctor at his office in a shot we see him with glasses but in the next he is without.
The Drag Race starts at a traffic light.
But once the cars clear the intersection we see there is no traffic light at that intersection.
In the conversation with her landlady after she returns from the car trip with the Minister, Mary's position on the staircase changes between shots.
She is lower down the stairs in the second shot.
When talking to the doctor in his office, Mary's arm changes position between shots - from being on the desk to being on the arm of her chair.
This is not a great film by most means of deduction, but when witnessing something that transcends deduction, the idea of great cinema flies out the window and is replaced with pure cinema. And there is a difference...
Mary (Candace Hilligoss) is in the passenger seat of a car with her two friends when they are challenged to a drag race by some boys. The driver accepts, and the car ends up crashing over the end of a bridge, landing into the water.
Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around in a car with two friends. When challenged to a drag race, the women accept, but are forced off of a bridge.
One-time director Herk Harvey made this familiar but eerie horror film that stars Candace Hilligoss as Mary Henry, who appears to be the sole survivor from a car that plunged off a bridge into a murky river. Her two friends are dead, but Mary, who is a church organist, has visions of a pale-faced phantom stalking her, even when she moves to another state to take a new church organist position.
This film is considered a cult classic horror film and I can see a bit what people like about it. It has a very good atmosphere that permeates throughout the entire film and makes one feel uneasy as first time watchers do not know what to expect.
There was really only one Professional that worked on this Movie. The Director Herk Harvey was an Industrial Filmmaker.
Didn't realize when I saw this film back in the day that it would become so famous as a cult classic. My father, Joe Traylor, played a bit part in the early scene when the car ran off the bridge and towns people showed up later.
I didn't really know much CARNIVAL OF SOULS, other than that it was a low-budget horror movie with a cult fan-base. What I got was certainly interesting, but hardly a masterpiece.
I rated this movie a ten. Let's face it, it is a 60's movie probably considered a C flick in its best days, but this movie scared the living crap out of me as a kid and out of all the horror films I had ever seen to that point or since, Carnival of Souls was the one that kept me scared into my twenties.
