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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 […]
‘Sensational Secrets of Infamous Mad-house EXPOSED!’ The 1946 horror movie Bedlam stars Boris Karloff as evil asylum master George Sims. ‘Sensational Secrets of Infamous Mad-house EXPOSED!’ Director Mark Robson’s 1946 horror movie Bedlam stars the […]
‘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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