Carnival of Souls in COLOR!

I recently did an article about my thoughts on the once controversial subject of colorizing old black and white films. I never knew what all the fuss was about because it wasn’t like the original was destroyed in favor of the newly colored copy. The original black and white versions of these films were always readily available whether it was on videocassette, DVD or online somewhere. The same can’t be said about a 1977 theatrical cut of Star Wars although you could look here.
I caught part of the colorized version of Carnival of Souls — a film I’ve always liked — and decided that I needed a physical copy of this version. I managed to snag an excellent copy on DVD that features both a nice, crisp transfer of the original black and white version along with the colorized version. It looks as if special care was taken during the colorization. It adds to the dream-like quality of the film. Inexplicably my DVD features a jokey commentary track from one of the guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000, but fortunately that can be turned off.