Carnival of Souls

A woman survives a car going off a bridge and takes a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. She is drawn to an abandoned lakeside pavilion. People periodically stop being able to see or hear her.

Herk Harvey made educational and industrial films for a living, saw the derelict Saltair pavilion on a drive, and shot this on holiday with a cast of locals and one professional actor. It is his only feature.

The technique is entirely accidental and entirely effective: post-dubbed sound that never quite sits, an organ score with no other instrumentation, non-actors, and a lead who is truly strange rather than sympathetic.

It disappeared, played late-night television for two decades, and was rediscovered in the late 1980s.

Lynch and Romero have both acknowledged it. The debt in Night of the Living Dead is obvious once you have seen it.