Carnivals of Souls is about a woman that survives a car crash that resulted in the car falling into the water. Mary was the only survivor. She wanted to put the crash behind her so she leaves town and becomes an organ player for a church in Utah. She continually sees a man that would appear and disappear and she learns that she is the only one that sees the man. At first she was not scared and would try to live her life but didn’t want to be alone. She was weirdly attracted to a deserted carnival. Mary would go in and out of existence. She was frightened and saw a doctor that tried to help her but she was planning on leaving town because she was fired but ends back at the deserted carnival. She sees souls dancing and following her. They crowned her and she disappeared and we learn at the end that she died in the car accident she was apart of. 

 The movie was slow in the beginning but it was interesting to see how scary movies were filmed back then. I was confused as to why she would go in and out of existence but it was creative the way that they would cut the sound in the film when she was out of existence. She was constantly running and looking for company from her creepy neighbor and the doctor that tried to calm her down. The neighbor didn’t want anything to do with her when he found out she had things going on in her life and was there just to try to sleep with her. 

In the reading What is  a Cult Horror film we learn that they are bad but not all bad. They tend to be good beside the budget. Cult horror films are not for everyone but they have their own fan group. The films are not classic and have a constructive formula. A woman is in distress and a man comes to try to save her. In the reading Cult Distraction: On Berlin’s Picture Palaces we learn that theaters were a place for people go to be distracted. Berlin adapted the American styles of theater with the lights and “their glamor aims to edification. He believed that people go to the movies to see something other than their own lives and I agree. In the reading Introduction to Distraction we learn that there is a system deposition characteristics of the different classes. Where you are from and how you live can impact the message taken away from a movie. Also the class of a person. There is a high and low of cultures. Education is the way people can move from a low class to a high class. The pure gaze is the emotional response to an artwork. It is the early age exposure to art before people  tell you what is right or wrong. The reading Cult Fiction: Cult movies, Subcultural capital and the production of cultural distinction talks about the fight among the cult fans. Fans distance themselves from the mass culture, others by projecting abstract onto other fans. “ These fans often reserve their most direct and vitriolic attacks at both the cultures of the parents and the taste of other fans – fans who are dismissed as inauthentic.” Every Cult fan has their own opinions on cult films that come out.