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Co-writer/producer Val Lewton’s 1944 sequel to his 1943 Cat People is an eerie, melodramatic, film noir horror fantasy about a lonely child called Amy Reed (Ann Carter, aged six). She gets tangled up with an imaginary world inhabited […]
Director Jacques Tourneur creates a superb air of unease in this exceptional 1943 vintage cult horror movie. In one of his finest, most eerie films, producer Val Lewton employs his zombies to poetic effect and […]
Boris Karloff stars in director Mark Robson’s wild, haunting 1945 Val Lewton-produced chiller, set in 1912 on a Greek island marooned by war and bedevilled by plague and maybe demon vampires. Martin Scorsese places it on his list […]
Director Mark Robson’s 1946 horror movie stars the great horror icon Boris Karloff as evil asylum master, apothecary general Master George Sims. Sadly it proved the last in the series of stylish B-movie horror films produced by […]
‘She knew strange, fierce pleasures that no other woman could ever feel!’ and ‘ The strangest story you ever tried to get out of your dreams!’ screamed the posters. Director Jacques Tourneur’s 1942 cult horror classic […]
Director Robert Wise’s 1945 tale of horror in old Edinburgh of 1832 is one of producer Val Lewton’s most celebrated macabre thrillers. It’s very much a work of the legendary Lewton, who co-writes the script, […]
The rarest of all producer Val Lewton’s films, this 1943 movie offers an odd and brooding tale of mysterious deaths aboard a ship under the command of dotty, power-crazed captain Richard Dix. The RKO studio had […]
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