christopher-underwood This came as a big surprise. Either I had previously seen it some time ago in a terrible print or I had only seen the many evocative b/w stills. Whatever, the pristine and beautifully shot movie unwound before me, glowing in its Blu-ray presentation. It is not the fastest moving film in the world and the story is only slight but wondrous image after image appear while the remarkable Candace Hilligoss performs so convincingly, often with only herself on screen. It is a stunning performance in that she convinces us of something unspoken and it must be said unresolved. Her inter action with others is also surprisingly effective in that in most ultra low budget films that mix young and old there is usually some disconnect, whether deliberate or not in that it is clear that the more mature performers are in some way slumming it. Not here and the exchanges in the doctor's office are particularly strong. So, the acting is good, the locations eerie and effective and the organ music suitably worrying. The salt lake and church settings are contrasted with the lodging house and unusual shapes and textures the Candace encounters and overall a very unsettling atmosphere is achieved. An original and influential work thats effect lingers well beyond the modest running time.

gary_sites Not much good I can say this film. Bad acting, make-up, transitions. I just need to find someone to knock me over the head for wasting an hour and 18 minutes on this terrible film.

Hollywoodshack While there were plenty of spooky settings used to great effect, the episodic plot line just felt like several segments unfolding. The logic of the story is also hard to believe. Three girls are drag racing against some guys before their car goes off a bridge. Why three girls? Why would girls in this time period be so openly daring, aggressive, and foolish? She drives away in a car after the crash, but where did it come from and whose car was it? Mary is haunted by some mysterious guy (Herk Harvey) but we never know who he is or where he came from. Why not put the guy in the car when it crashed? The carnival grounds keep drawing Mary there, but why? How did she know where they were? Director Harvey who played the ghost said in an interview he did not know a reason for these events or who the guy was, but wanted viewers to fill in the blanks. Some claim this is based on the "girl at the bridge" legend where a girl keeps haunting the same bridge she leaped off of before.

clanciai Films out of the ordinary are always interesting, especially if they are unpretentious and still demonstrate a uniqueness in lacking any similarity with other films. This is such a unique orchid in the garden of roses and weeds, which in addition is made almost without a budget, like a soup cooked on a nail, but it's a miracle of sustained concentration on the essence of filming all the way.A young girl emerges as the sole survivor after a car accident, where the car went into the river off a bridge, and she is a professional organist, who gets a job in a church in Utah in some small town close to a lake, where there are some remnants of past glory holidays and bathing in the form of a derelict massive tabernacle of a pavilion. She is drawn to this spooky place, but she suffers from her previous trauma, which somehow occasionally disconnects her entirely from reality, and this gets of course worse.The music is very important to the film. It's generally spooky organ music, she plays the organ well, and even the priest is satisfied with her, until she falls into a trance in spooky improvisations, which deeply upsets the priest, which really no one can understand why - it's just organ music and original improvisations at that. The music sets the mood, which is increasingly haunting all through the film.You could call it abstract, but it is really perfectly realistic all the way, especially in visualizing her disconnected moods. It reminds you very much of Polanski's "Repulsion" and Catherine Deneuve, but this is entirely different. This is more para-psychological, transcending the borders of life and death and giving a fair view of ghost existence. Mary's problem is she doesn't understand her own situation and therefore has no control of it, and as she can't get what's wrong with her, no one else can help her either, no matter how they try and do their best, from the landlady to the doctor. You might think that she will get things sorted out at last, while certainly none of the others will.This is a film you will never forget, especially if you are a musician and know something about the other side.