Rising from a watery crash, our intrepid explorers of the zombie apocalypse Jon and Theron seek refuge in a desolate dancehall at the water's edge. Stumbling conveniently upon rusty podcast equipment and a TV, they discover Herk Harvey's 1962 independent proto-zombie flick, "Carnival of Souls."
Citations for this episode:
- Monteyne, Kimberley. “From the Question of Soul to a Carnival of Souls: The Truncated Road Film, Gothic Automobiles, and Dangerous Women Drivers.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 58, no. 1, 2018, pp. 24–46. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26608642. Accessed 2 Dec. 2023.
- Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
- Mecham, Merritt. "I Don’t Belong In This World: On the Saltair Pavilion, Mary Henry, and Carnival of Souls." Bright Wall/Dark Room, Issue 80, 2020. https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2020/02/21/saltair-pavilion-mary-henry-carnival-of-souls/. Accessed 2 Dec. 2023.
