Talk:Carnival of Souls

Colorization

Do we really need this advertisement for colorization in the External links ?Hektor 03:15, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it hurts. Some people actually like colorized movies, though I dislike the process myself.

Rod Serling May Have Inspired Herk Harvey

Two episodes of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone television series may have inspired Herk Harvey to create Carnival of Souls. The two episodes most likely to have had an impact on Herk Harvey had aired in January and February of 1961, within months of the time that Herk Harvey had begun filming. These two episodes were The Hitch-Hiker and Mirror Image, each drawing on an independent history already present in American folklore. The first episode dealt with the reoccurring apparition of a hitch-hiker that just wouldn't go away, reappearing to the beautiful blonde driver as she drove across the country, attempting to relocate from New York to California; the second dealt with the paranoid delusions of a beautiful blonde who believed a doppelganger from a mirror in a bus station was stealing her bus tickets, her luggage, and ultimately her identity.

Two years earlier than the other two, a third episode of the Twilight Zone, And When the Sky Was Opened (1959 deserves honorable mention because it introduces us to the concept that identities can be lost, with the hero (an astronaut returning to the earth) discovers his identity is in danger of being lost after all his fellow astronauts appear to have been erased from the earth. When he looks into a mirror, he sees that his reflection has disappeared, so closing the show on an ominous note.