31 Day Horror Challenge Day Two: Carnival of Souls(1998)

The word crap can be used to describe several different things.  We all know its true meaning so I won’t go there.  No, it be used as a word for stuff, it can describe a how you feel about somebody, or it can be used as the perfect word to explain Wes Craven’s Carnival of Souls.  Although Craven has made some stinkers in his time, this is easily the worst I've seen.  Don’t see it, please!

Having witnessed her mother’s rape and murder by a carnival clown when she was a child, Alex is haunted well into her adult years.  She keeps seeing visions of the clown and the carnival even though it was closed down years before.  No one outside of her close circle seems to know her at all and the dreams she has begin to weigh her down.  This all leads to the most obvious “twist” ending maybe ever.

There are definitely films in which Wes Craven has shown he is a skillful and clever director, this is not one of those films.  Let me put it this way:  this is horrible compared to Michael Bay’s line of work!

1/10 stars.