Carnival of Souls (1998 film)
A 1998 remake of the 1962 horror film, starring Bobbie Phillips and comedian Larry Miller, directed by Adam Grossman and Ian Kessner, and executive-produced by Wes Craven. It received mixed, mostly-negative reviews.
Tropes used in Carnival of Souls (1998 film) include:
- Bittersweet Ending: More-or-less the same ending as the original, but with a more uplifting and heroic twist. Alex is revealed to have died in the opening, but, in doing so, had managed to defeat the Big Bad, thus ensuring her little sister's survival.
- Black Bug Room
- Dark and Troubled Past
- Disappeared Dad
- Dying Dream
- Heroic Sacrifice: The reason Alex's car crashed in the beginning is that she was trying to pull off one of these, in the end, it turned out she succeeded.
- Mama Bear: Alex toward Sandra.
- Missing Mom
- Monster Clown
- Panty Shot
- Revenge: Louis's motive.
- Taking You with Me: In the opening, Alex deliberately steers her car off the road so that the paedophile who is holding her hostage won't be able to kill her sister. She ends up surviving until the end, where it turns out that everything after the crash was just a dying dream.