Carnival of Souls (The Criterion Collection)
An ultra-cheap B-horror movie, filmed in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1962, with a  really creepyTwilight Zone-style premise and some great shoestring atmosphere.  Wandering into a small town after an auto accident, to begin her new job as a church  organist, young Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) begins to pick up strange vibes: none of  the normal people in town seem to be able to see her, and she keeps being accosted by  freakish pasty-faced types who seem to be dead on their feet. The nightmarish finale  benefits from its one-of-a-kind "found" setting, an empty amusement park rising like a  ghostly castle from the prairie landscape. This is much less aggressive and violent film  than George Romero's originalNight of the Living Dead, but for sheer skin- crawling spookiness, it's in the same class.--David Chute --This text refers to an out  of print or unavailable edition of this title.