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‘Carnival of Souls’ is Getting a Criterion Blu-ray Release!
Carnival of Souls getting a Blu-ray release from Criterion isn’t really news. This has been known for a while, but we now know the details of that release and man do they sure look good! The film will be available on July 12 on Blu-ray and 2-disc DVD and in what should come as no surprise, it’s going to be loaded! There’s an interview with Dana Gould! Dana freakin’ Gould! How cool is that?!
Check out the full details below!
Synopsis:
A young woman in a small Kansas town survives a drag race accident, then agrees to take a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her toward an abandoned lakeside pavilion. Made by industrial filmmakers on a modest budget, the eerily effective B-movie classic Carnival of Souls was intended to have “the look of a Bergman and the feel of a Cocteau”—and, with its strikingly used locations and spooky organ score, it succeeds. Herk Harvey’s macabre masterpiece gained a cult following on late-night television and continues to inspire filmmakers today.SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
·New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
·Selected-scene audio commentary featuring director Herk Harvey and screenwriter John Clifford
·New interview with comedian and writer Dana Gould
·New video essay by film critic David Cairns
·The Movie That Wouldn’t Die!, a documentary on the 1989 reunion of the film’s cast and crew
·The Carnival Tour, a 2000 update on the film’s locations
·Excerpts from movies made by the Centron Corporation, an industrial film company based in Lawrence, Kansas, that once employed Harvey and Clifford
·Deleted scenes
·Outtakes, accompanied by Gene Moore’s organ score
·History of the Saltair Resort in Salt Lake City, where key scenes in the film were shot
·Trailer
·PLUS: An essay by writer and programmer Kier-La Janisse
Get ready for double the fun, protagonists, and body count when Ready or Not 2: Here I Come explodes on streaming next week.
Just in time for the fireworks, the sequel makes its streaming debut on Hulu and Disney+ on July 2.
Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett are back, along with Samara Weaving, for more hide and slay mayhem.
Picking up moments after the all-out attack from the Le Domas family in the first Ready or Not movie, Grace (Weaving) discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) at her side. Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister alive, and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the world. Four rival families are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins rules it all.
That means a higher body count and even more explosive carnage. Just how much? A whopping 325 gallons worth, the directors previously told BD.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, Néstor Carbonell, David Cronenberg, Elijah Wood, Kevin Durand, Olivia Cheng, Varun Saranga, and Daniel Beirne also star.
I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “More is more in Ready or Not 2. Bigger stakes, larger playing field, a higher (and more gruesome) body count, and even double the protagonists. It’s all designed to deliver maximum crowd-pleasing fun.”
The horror-comedy sequel is written by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy.
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