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Something strange is waiting in the shadows as Movie Nights in Minerva continues our October journey through public domain horror with this special midday screening! What’s “public domain,” you ask? These are works that have slipped free from copyright’s grip, meaning they belong to everyone.
For scholars and students, public domain materials are treasures: they can be studied, remixed, taught and shared without restriction. For horror fans? They’re a free-for-all of ghosts, monsters and ghoulish delights we can screen without summoning a copyright lawyer.
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This Week’s Fright: Carnival of Souls (1962) After surviving a terrible car accident, Mary Henry moves to a new town hoping to leave the experience behind. Instead, she finds herself drawn to an abandoned lakeside carnival—and haunted by the appearance of a mysterious, ghostly figure who seems to be following her wherever she goes. Dreamlike, eerie and deeply unsettling, Carnival of Souls traded big monsters and buckets of blood for something much stranger.
Its surreal atmosphere and creeping sense of isolation helped make this low-budget oddity a cult classic and an influential piece of horror cinema. Rated: Unrated (psychological horror, eerie imagery & unsettling themes) Runtime: Approximately 1 hour & 20 minutes We’ll have the hot, fresh popcorn ready, so bring your friends and settle into the Minerva Room for a haunting trip to the carnival. Admission is easy.
Finding your way back out? Well… Registration is not required, but preferred. Hosted by: University Libraries
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