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A young girl witnesses the brutal rape and murder of her mother by a circus clown and begins to have nightmares when the carnival comes back to town when she is an adult. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Bobbie Phillips | ... | Alex Grant |
 | Shawnee Smith | ... | Sandra Grant |
 | Larry Miller | ... | Louis Seagram |
 | Paul Johansson | ... | Michael |
 | Cleavant Derricks | ... | Sid |
 | Henry G. Sanders | ... | Officer Soby |
| Brendan Thomas Dillion | ... | Henry |
| Anna K. McKown | ... | Elaine Grant (as Anna Kristen McKown) |
| Raquel Beaudene | ... | Young Alex Grant |
| Tiffanie Ann Taylor | ... | Young Sandra Grant |
| Joseph S. Griffo | ... | Photographer |
 | Robert LaSardo | ... | Candyman (as Robert A. LaSardo) |
| Mark Paskell | ... | Clown |
| Ellen Albertini Dow | ... | Mrs. Meltzer |
| Andrew Craig | ... | Worker |
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Rated R for violence/terror, a strong sex scene and language.Parents Guide:
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Finland:K-16 | Australia:MA (TV rating) | Iceland:16 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Germany:16 | Portugal:M/16 (video premiere) | UK:18 | USA:R | Spain:18MOVIEmeter: 
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Carnival of Souls starts off promising, but goes downhill awfully too soon. Yes, we know Alex is haunted by memories of her mother's death and lives in fear that the killer is coming after her, but will you get on with the film already?
I really wanted to like this film, but there were too many lost plots, irrelevant characters and it's slow pacing. I really wanted to like it. It would've made an excellent drama, but they ruined it by marketing it as a horror film and by placing these weird chernobyl freak things in Alex's nightmares. Total disappointment.
Shawnee Smith was very charismatic and delightful as the younger sister. Bobbie Phillips (who looks like a cross between Claire Forlani & Natalie Imbruglia) was excellent and quite touching at times. Larry Miller, who really only appears in dreams, etc.. was funny as the perverted psycho, but lacked development.
Carnival of Souls was well acted & directed but lacked in the writing department. The only horror was in the dreams, and films in this genre need more than that.
5/10