Recent films like Paranormal Activity and The House of the Devil owe a debt of gratitude to Herk Harvey’s cult classic, Carnival of Souls. The film was made for a mere $33,000 and relies on dramatic black-and-white photography and a dreamy atmosphere to conjure the horror beneath the everyday. A young organist’s life is transformed after a car crash and she becomes haunted by a ghostly figure.
From the start of the film (there are no opening credits) we are jolted into Mary Henry’s (Candace Hilligoss) world. A drag race sends Mary’s car plummeting into a river, but she mysteriously survives …read more

Screamstress Review of “Shutter”
The film Shutter stars Joshua Jackson, Rachel Taylor, Megumi Okina and David Denman, and centers on a photographer and his new wife who live in Japan, and their experiences in relation to ghost photography.
Shutter is a classic tale of ghostly revenge via the use of spirit photography.

If you plan to see the movie, please do not read this review beforehand. On my journey to see The Happening, I resigned myself to accepting the fact that I probably wouldn’t like the ending since I didn’t like the endings of Lady In The Water, or The Village, although I enjoyed both movies.  Also, when you lower the hype level, all sorts of magic happens.