Review – Carnival of Souls (1998)

I’m not sure what it was about the original cult favorite that required or even invited a remake. And to the extent that a remake was needed at all, I’m not at all convinced that this particular film was what anyone should have had in mind. It seems to capture all the disjointed weirdness of the first one without any of the eerie sense of foreboding. Ultimately all we get is an hour and a half of constant snapping in and out of dream/hallucination sequences, each more pointless than the last. Except where it busies itself stealing shock effects (not to mention a little plot) from Jacob’s Ladder, this movie has little to offer. See if desperate