The Seventh Victim (1943)

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Directed by Mark Robson.

Starring Hugh Beaumont, Evelyn Brent, Jean Brooks, Tom Conway, Erford Gage, Kim Hunter, Isabel Jewell.

Producer Val Lewton once more utilized leftover Magnificent Ambersons sets for his psychological horror piece The Seventh Victim. Kim Hunter arrives in New York's Greenwich Village in search of her errant sister Jean Brooks. Gradually, the naive Hunter is drawn into a strange netherworld of Satan worshippers. The story is a bit too complex for its own good (especially with only a 71-minute running time to play with), but editor-turned-director Mark Robson and screenwriters DeWitt Bodeen and Charles O'Neal keep the thrills and shudders coming at a satisfying pace. Lewton regular Tom Conway offers his usual polished performance, while veteran character actresses Isabel Jewell and Evelyn Brent look appropriately gaunt and possessed in the "cult" sequences. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Re:What's the most influential ...
by digitalconquest in HORROR MOVIES 101

liked it.

"Oh definitely count me in the Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur camp! Huge fan of movies like I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, THE BODY SNATCHER, CURSE OF THE DEMON and the rest! Mark [quote user="Macabre_FilmNut"] From what i have seen and enjoyed in most italian directors including Argento. Alot of there style, probally wouldnt of really existed if wasn't for Val Lewton. The original writer of the The Body Snatcher (1945) and his one film that he produced and that you can see alot of influence on Italian diretcors The Seventh Victim (1943) Another Lewton film, the a huge horror influence because you also see traces of it in alot of things and its till doesnt get the respect it should. [/quote] " [More]

Re:What's the most influential ...
by Macabre_FilmNut in HORROR MOVIES 101

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"From what i have seen and enjoyed in most italian directors including Argento. Alot of there style, probally wouldnt of really existed if wasn't for Val Lewton. The original writer of the The Body Snatcher (1945) and his one film that he produced and that you can see alot of influence on Italian diretcors The Seventh Victim (1943) Another Lewton film, the a huge horror influence because you also see traces of it in alot of things and its till doesnt get the respect it should. " [More]

Review by All Movie Guide

All Movie Guide

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One of producer Val Lewton's stylish B-horror movies for RKO, The Seventh Victim presaged modern horror with homegrown witches and implications of domestic evil. Shrouded in a moody, film noiresque atmosphere of deep black-and-white shadows, the attempts of Kim Hunter's "good" Mary to rescue her sister Jacqueline from a witches' cult take on unsettling overtones of unspoken emotion and repressed jealousies. Even as the creepily genteel witches seem to succeed in their plan for taking their next victim, the grim ending's economically evocative imagery suggests that Jacqueline's fate lies as much with her supposedly decent husband and her sister as with the story's apparent monsters. A precursor to Rosemary's Baby (1968) with its seemingly benign Manhattan coven, The Seventh Victim also has a pre-Psycho (1960) shower scene, pointing to the Alfred Hitchcock classic that would definitively bring movie horror into the no-longer-safe home and family. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

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