Le Carnaval des âmes

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.

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.

The eleven year-old girl Alex Grant witnesses her mother being raped and killed at home by the carnival clown Louis Seagram (Larry Miller). Many years later, Alex (Bobbie Phillips) works with her younger sister Sandra Grant (Shawnee Smith) in the Mermaid Inn that was owned by their mother. Out of the blue, Alex is attacked by Louis that was hidden in the backseat of her car on the day of the anniversary of the death of her mother. She struggles with Louis and drives her car into the sea to protect her sister. Then she swims back to the shore on the area of a carnival. From this moment on, Alex has nightmares and daydreams with Louis. What is happening with Alex?

"Carnival of Souls" (1962) is a low-budget cult movie with a story that seems to be an episode of "Twilight Zone". "Carnival of Souls" (1998) is not a remake and only borrows the title and a small part of the original storyline. The plot is boring and totally predictable, sort of a combination of "Jacob's Ladder" with "Carnival of Souls". The result is an average and forgettable horror film. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Parque Macabro" ("Macabre Park")

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.

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!