The Lark Cinema Club – Halloween Double Feature: House on Haunted Hill (1959) + Carnival of Souls (1962)

The Lark Cinema Club – Halloween Double Feature: House on Haunted Hill (1959) + Carnival of Souls (1962)

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The Lark Cinema Club closes its launch season with a proper Halloween week event: a double feature of haunted-house thrills and ghostly unease.

The night begins with House on Haunted Hill, a film built around one of horror’s great invitations: spend the night in a haunted house and survive until morning. It is theatrical, playful, sinister, and full of classic horror-show energy. With its locked rooms, suspicious guests, hidden motives, and macabre humour, it is the kind of film that works best with an audience ready to enjoy every creak, scream, and suspicious glance.

Then the mood shifts with Carnival of Souls, one of cult cinema’s strangest and most haunting films. It is quieter, colder, and more dreamlike: a story of disconnection, empty spaces, eerie music, and a woman caught between the ordinary world and something she cannot explain. It feels less like a conventional horror film and more like a nightmare remembered the next morning.

Together, the two films give the Halloween finale a strong shape: first the fun of a spooky haunted-house attraction, then the lingering chill of something more uncanny.

It is a perfect way to end the launch run — not with a single screening, but with an event.

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