Carnival of Souls

Carnival of Souls
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Alex-Chick who may or may not be going insane. She's pretty hot.
Louis-Played by Larry Miller. Crazy perverted clown who haunts Alex. We're unsure if he's alive or dead.
Sandra-Played by Shawnee Smith (You know, chick from both "Saw" movies & that show "Becker"). Alex's sister. Can sing. That's about it.
Sid-Played by the black dude from "Sliders". Works at Alex and Sandra's bar. That's it for him also.
Michael-Some dude who owns a boat. Probably symbolizes something.

Here's my impression of Wes Craven.
"Hi, I'm Wes Craven. I can make some kickass movies when I want to. But there are times in my life when I take heavy amounts of drugs and decide to attach my name to some pretty shitty movies. Off I go to make 'Last House of The Left 2'."

Sorry, I had to get that out. Anyway, Wes Craven is credited as producer, and I wish he'd save that money to make a better movie.

We start off with Alex, as a little girl, walking in on Larry Miller getting ready to rape her mom. Alex manages to stop this but kills her mom in the process. Flashfoward to 20 years later and Louis is in Alex's backseat with a gun. He makes her drive to where the old carnival was, where Louis met Alex's mom, and it's all thanks to Alex because she got lost at the carnival and she bumped into Louis. When Louis makes some threats, Alex decides it'd be better to die and she's taking him with her, so she drives the car off a pier.

Then we think that was all a dream when she wakes up in a bathtub above her bar. The tub is flooding the bar downstairs and her worker Sid isn't too happy about this. Then Sid finds out there's a flood happening in the basement, so Alex goes to get a sump pump.

She decides to stop at a car wash thanks to a very handy radio ad and weird shit happens. The truck she's in starts flooding and weird "Hellraiser"esque creatures surround the truck. Alex wakes up YET AGAIN outside the store where she bought the pump.
She has weird hallucinations of Louis roaming around taunting her and things appearing and disappearing. This goes on for about 45 minutes in the movie. Sometimes there's a carnival, sometimes there isn't. She runs into Michael who you think is real and will have sex with Alex. But this isn't really true.

We find out that this entire movie is really just some weird daydream or something Alex is having as she's dying in her car with Louis. And everything in the daydream or whatever symoblizes something. I dunno what Michael symbolizes but he turns into Louis while she's having sex with him, which would scare anyone, I would think.
And the ending is very long and drawn out and just super trippy and I think you need to be on heavy drugs to watch it and/or understand it. What any of this has to do with the 60's version is way beyond me.

So in case you couldn't figure it out, this movie is way too confusing and pretty stupid. I think it was a waste of time to even make this, or to even call it "Carnival of Souls". And we really don't need to see Larry Miller in clown makeup. That's just disturbing.