Synopsis
This amazingly clever and genuinely spooky horror film has over the decades deservedly earned the title of bona-fide cult classic. It is the saga of Mary Henry, a young woman who apparently drowns when the car she is riding in goes off a bridge during a drag race. Rescue workers note the impossibility of anyone surviving the accident. Yet Mary miraculously emerges unscathed from what should have been her watery grave. She promptly sets out for Utah and her new job as a church organist. While on the road, a ghostlike vision appears for a split second in her car window. As the time passes and Mary settles into her new surroundings, additional apparitions slowly but jarringly crowd into her consciousness. The chills begin to mount as these seemingly living ghosts become more and more real and frightening. Mary also finds herself inexplicably drawn to an abandoned carnival site: a locale which surely will prove to be loaded with hidden secrets. The astonishing film was shot on a miniscule budget, but offers more genuine scares than many a special effects-laden Hollywood chiller costing millions to produce. It was industrial filmmaker Herk Harvey's sole venture into feature filmmaking. He also appears in from of the camera, as one of the apparitions. 80 minutes.