It seems to be #ValLewton day on #TCM. Tempting, but I’ve got things to take care of … #TCMParty #film #films #movies

The Val Lewton boxset is an astounding collection. Each movie is too much to take in in a single viewing.
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Today’s classic motion picture presentation is Val Lewton’s “The Seventh Victim” (1943) #classicfilms #movies #films #vallewton

And I loved it!
A great mix of #filmnoir and #psychologicalhorror #ValLewton #physicalmedia #movies #cinemastodon https://hachyderm.io/@Kristofferabild/113312901537663578

Finally watching this tonight. My first #ValLewton #physicalmedia #movies #cinemastodon

I just watched I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943) and rated it 7/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Walked_with_a_Zombie #films #cinema #cinemastodon #IWalkedWithAZombie #JacquesTourneur #FrancesDee #TomConway #ValLewton

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February 3rd- Missing Person in Movie

Jacqueline Gibson (Jean Brooks)

"The Seventh Victim" (1943)
Directed by Mark Robson

3 things about Jacques Tourneur’s THE LEOPARD MAN [1943]

1. A scratched hand is the only time we see blood.
2. Compensation for his lost leopard: $250.
3. Nocturnal, hooded procession straight out of a Buñuel film.

3 things about Mark Robson’s THE GHOST SHIP [1943]

1. Chain cacophony.
2. Rigging an alarm system using a torn bedsheet.
3. He violently smashes the plaque in half.

Started to watch Satan's Slaves last night on Shudder but then a freak storm came through & we lost WiFi.
Thank the Dark Lord for physical media, we watched Cat People instead and will finish Slaves tonight.

#movie #Shudder #horror #SatansSlaves #CatPeople #ValLewton #Criterion #PhysicalMediaRules #PhysicalMedia @horror@a.gup.pe

A teenage girl takes a nerve-wracking nocturnal walk, briefly startled by a train and a pair of glowing eyes in the darkness, before her desperate cries for help lead to a death conveyed by a pool of blood under the front door. #JacquesTourneur's third and final horror film for #ValLewton is a murder-mystery set in New Mexico, with three standout scenes of subtle terror in the Cat People tradition. #OnThisDay 80 years ago, RKO released #TheLeopardMan.

"We do have a message, and our message is that death is good". Remembering the innovative Vladimir Ivanovich Leventon, a.k.a. #ValLewton (1904-51), the Russian-American film producer, screenwriter and novelist, born in Yalta on this day. Overseeing RKO's wartime horror unit, and working with directors Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise and Mark Robson, he produced nine evocative, understated genre films in four years,...

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The Ghost Ship (1943) directed by Mark Robson is seen as one of the lesser of the 1940s Val Lewton-produced RKO horror films. That may be true but it's still a very fine visually impressive shipboard horror film.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-ghost-ship-1943.html

I just watched Cat People (1942, Jacques Tourneur) and rated it 7/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_People_%281942_film%29?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastadon #CatPeople #JacquesTourneur #SimoneSimon #ValLewton

Producer Val Lewton is one of the most important figures in horror film history, but is, unfortunately, only really discussed today by filmmakers and cinephiles. This sequence from CAT PEOPLE is a MasterClass in how to create tension and terror onscreen, a carefully orchestrated attack on the senses common in his films.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz98akbX_NE

I Walked With a Zombie (1943), the best voodoo movie ever made and the best zombie movie ever made. A superb example of subtle intelligent character-driven horror.

Directed by Jacques Tourneur for Val Lewton's RKO B unit.

Inspired by Charlotte Brontë’s great gothic novel Jane Eyre.

It treats voodoo quite seriously and without sensationalism.

Tasked with overseeing a low budget horror cycle to compete with Universal's comparatively lavish series, former Selznick right hand man #ValLewton produced a disarmingly adult chiller about an elegaic, empathetic, doomed immigrant (#SimoneSimon) who transforms when aroused. Mundane workplaces, stylish brownstone apartments and Central Park serve as backdrops for scenes of suggested terror, and #JaneRandolph is stalked in two of the most influential (and understated) horror sequences of...

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The Body Snatcher (1945) was the first of the three Val Lewton RKO horror films to star Boris Karloff.

Based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s story which was based on the infamous West Port Murders (for which Burke and Hare were believed responsible).

It's not in the top rank of Lewton movies but it's very enjoyable and it does have Karloff.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-body-snatcher-1945.html