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Carnival of Blood (1970)

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Dave Sindelar	Carnival of Blood (1970)	Lead	[-]
Apr 19 12 10:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Carnival of Blood (1970) #3902 Viewing Date: 4-10-2012 Posting Date: 4-20-2012 Directed by Leonard Kirtman Featuring Earle Edgerton, Judith Resnick, Martin Barolsky Country: USA What it is: Psycho in a carnival Somebody is knocking off women at Coney Island. A policeman investigates, unaware that his girlfriend may turn out to be one of the victims. Who is the killer? Is it the fortune-telling woman? The balloon barker? His hunchback assistant named Gimpy? Personally, between this batch of suspects, it's pretty obvious. This one is pretty bottom of the barrel, with a lousy script, shaky camerawork, less-than-convincing gore effects, and a total inability to milk any suspense out of the material. Still, there are moments when this one gets by on sheer strangeness; there's the bizarre and unexplained opening credits which have something to do with the talking but silent head of a disembodied woman (if this means anything, I don't get it), and then there's one of the weirdest flashback sequences I've ever seen near the end of the movie, just to name a couple. Still, for the most part, the movie seems obsessed with showing you just how annoying the victims are; it spends endless time wandering around the carnival with them before they finally get offed, and even that's no relief, because the movie will just move on to another annoying character. This one does have the novelty of featuring at least one actor who became something of a name; Burt Young plays Gimpy, which is (apparently) his character's real name. Oh, Benson, dear Benson, you are so mercifully free from the ravages of intelligence!
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Reegs		#1	[-]
Apr 20 12 8:30 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	L. Ponsonby Gimpy, of the Red Hook Gimpy's. Very prominent family until the bottom fell out of the skelly checkers industry. And it's heartening to see that Judith Resnick left the acting game and bounced back as an astronaut. Last Edited By: Reegs Apr 20 12 9:40 AM. Edited 3 times.
Andrew Kidd		#2	[-]
Apr 20 12 6:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This yet another case of both the trailer being obviously much better than the actual movie, and my being thankful for my Something Weird DVD sampler. I'll admit there is something about carnivals and amusement parks that attracts me on the level of their possibility for horror situations. Maybe it's my memories of "Flight to Mars," the scary monster ride on Boblo Island or the terror of getting lost at Ontario Place when I was four, that's responsible. But for real amusement park horrors, nothing beats my mom being stuck with my sister (then just three years old) on "It's a Small World" for three hours straight when the ride broke down...but the music didn't. Last Edited By: Andrew Kidd Apr 20 12 6:20 PM. Edited 2 times.
horrorfilmx		#3	[-]
Apr 20 12 6:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Andrew Kidd wrote: But for real amusement park horrors, nothing beats my mom being stuck with my sister (then just three years old) on "It's a Small World" for three hours straight when the ride broke down...but the music didn't. For some reason that makes me think of the dungeon sequence from The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Koukol 5		#4	[-]
Apr 20 12 6:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I like this shoddy little film.

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