I actually got to see Carnival of Souls in the theater once. it’s a fantastic and creepy film.
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I’ve seen it too and agree! (I think on Kanopy?)
Isn’t there a remake too? Or maybe it was something that reproduced some of its scenes. 
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I too watch Reacher, but mostly because Alan Ritchson is glorious to look at. Otherwise, it’s just big, dumb fun.
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It’s in the public domain and can therefore be found all over the place. The best copy out there is probably from Criterion, but I wanted to link to a free copy.
There was an alleged remake (at least in name) in 1998. The IMDb plot synopsis:
A young girl witnesses the brutal rape and murder of her mother by a circus clown and begins to have nightmares when the carnival comes back to town when she is an adult.
Not well reviewed.
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I had not heard if there was a remake, but I don’t doubt people have referenced it.
Oh well…
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I recall George Romero admitting it was an influence on Night of the Living Dead, although they seem rather different in mood and imagery to me. Romero made his own feminist Bergman pastiche in 1972, Season of the Witch.
ETA: And there’s this uncredited remake:
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Ah right, Yella. Christian Petzold! Nina Hoss! I liked it.
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Moisturize me!!!
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We can say moist if we want to.
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We can leave your friends behind…
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'Cause your friends aren’t moist
and if they aren’t moist
Well, they’re no friends of mine
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Moist friends sounds like a title for something about amphibians or fish or snails, trying to make them sound cute and friendly but dramatically missing that mark with certain people.
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It needs to be about an amphibian, a fish, and a sea snail who have wacky adventures and hang out in a clubhouse. And maybe fight crime.
They are the Moist Friends!
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Most conflicts end with a deus ex machina when the snail finally shows up with exactly what they need. And yes, that could have fixed things earlier, but they are trying their best. 
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I watched Poor Things this weekend.
I’d been avoiding it, because the conceit of the film, that the mind of a child was inserted into the body of a beautiful young woman, is not science fiction for me.
My stepchild, Adam, had the mind of an infant in a teenager/adult’s body, and many of the residents of his home were similarly mentally challenged. It’s a real issue that parents have to deal with - periods, sexual urges without the ability to consent, caregivers who are attracted to easy prey, and adults with free will who lack the skills to communicate their desires in ways that caregivers understand and which are socially acceptable.
The problems the film presents around sexuality and consent are real issues that we and many other parents had to contend with.
The “joke” of the main character masturbating at the table was a real situation that his caregivers had to cope with daily once Adam went into puberty - let’s just say that my brilliant gift of a foot massager was used in a different area of his body, frequently, and without concern for whether it freaked out other people - to the point that these were taken away from him. One of the things he had to be taught was to go to his room for his private time. So, this “humorous” bit was not really that funny to me, though I imagine if you haven’t had to deal with this, it would be pretty funny to imagine a woman going at it at the dining room table.
But, of course, this is art, and not real life, so I tried to go along with it.
To me, it felt like a very masculine point of view on a woman’s life. It keeps veering toward rape and danger, but instead goes into relatively benign learning experiences that help the main character to grow. And while, yes, women grow through their experiences with relationships and sexuality, the main character’s total lack of appropriate fear was really hard to watch, and the idea that she was somehow protected by not having that fear seemed like a really male version of a woman’s experience.
The set design, the costumes, and the cinematography were really inventive. I wish I had seen it on a big screen, as I think my experience of the movie would have been really different in a theater. I definitely appreciate a filmmaker who is exploring new visuals and stories, so it’s worth a watch, and worth seeing for the debate about it.
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