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October 27, 2006

Halloween's Coming, pt. 3: Val Lewton

I love the series of suspense films produced by Val Lewton in the early 1940s. Although he didn't direct the films listed below, he had a lot of creative power behind them; they're all really intelligent, especially by today's horror movie standards, and they each had a creepy, atmospheric, daydreamy aesthetic. The ones that Jacques Tourneur directed for Lewton, especially I Walked With a Zombie, are my personal favorites. Here are the posters from six of Lewton's early films.

I Walked With a Zombie (1943)

Cat People (1942)

The Seventh Victim (1943); The Leopard Man (1943); and The Ghost Ship (1943)

The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

The Body Snatcher (1945)

Posted by scottheim at October 27, 2006 01:06 AM

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