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I had posted earlier in this thread about "Carnival of Souls" and how it's an underrated horror flick that everyone should watch once.
Anyway I quite often visit the web site of Bill James, the baseball statistics god-father.
Bill quite often fields questions that are not baseball related– like this one concerning "Carnival of Souls"...
Hey Bill,
I watched "Carnival of Souls", a pretty good 1962 horror film made in Lawrence, Kansas.
Have you seen it? Thoughts?
Asked by: BrianNash
Answered: 10/17/2019
I've never actually seen it. My understanding is that, while much of the film was filmed in Lawrence, some of it was actually filmed in Colorado and Utah.
The guy who made the film, Harvey something I think his name was.. .the film did NOTHING at the time that it was made. He stayed in Lawrence and started a company that made stuff like training films for the US Army and educational films like they used to show you in high school classes when the teacher needed a day off. In 1977-1978 I lived in an apartment that was like 60 feet from the building that was the headquarters of this company that made the films. . .forget the name of it now.
Many years later that film "hit"; it went into vogue. It was named by several critics as one of the best films ever made, and at the end of the 20th century there was a poll of critics which listed that as one of the 100 most important films of the 20th century. Harvey whatever-his-name was was by now in his 60s, about retirement age; he sold his film company and went to Hollywood to try to pick up his long-delayed dream of being a Hollywood film director, but I don't think anything ever happened for him.
I wrote about him a little bit in the Kansas book. Still trying to find a publishe
Anyway I quite often visit the web site of Bill James, the baseball statistics god-father.
Bill quite often fields questions that are not baseball related– like this one concerning "Carnival of Souls"...
Hey Bill,
I watched "Carnival of Souls", a pretty good 1962 horror film made in Lawrence, Kansas.
Have you seen it? Thoughts?
Asked by: BrianNash
Answered: 10/17/2019
I've never actually seen it. My understanding is that, while much of the film was filmed in Lawrence, some of it was actually filmed in Colorado and Utah.
The guy who made the film, Harvey something I think his name was.. .the film did NOTHING at the time that it was made. He stayed in Lawrence and started a company that made stuff like training films for the US Army and educational films like they used to show you in high school classes when the teacher needed a day off. In 1977-1978 I lived in an apartment that was like 60 feet from the building that was the headquarters of this company that made the films. . .forget the name of it now.
Many years later that film "hit"; it went into vogue. It was named by several critics as one of the best films ever made, and at the end of the 20th century there was a poll of critics which listed that as one of the 100 most important films of the 20th century. Harvey whatever-his-name was was by now in his 60s, about retirement age; he sold his film company and went to Hollywood to try to pick up his long-delayed dream of being a Hollywood film director, but I don't think anything ever happened for him.
I wrote about him a little bit in the Kansas book. Still trying to find a publishe
