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Val Lewton (May 7, 1904 – March 14, 1951) was a Ukrainian-American novelist, film producer and screenwriter best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s. His son, also named Val Lewton, was a painter and exhibition designer.
Oct 19, 2021 · Bill Ryan celebrates the nine horror films that Val Lewton produced for RKO between 1942 and 1946, like The Seventh Victim and Cat People.
Val Lewton. Producer: The Body Snatcher. Born in Russian Empire in 1904, Lewton moved with his mother and sister to Berlin in 1906, then to USA in 1909. He wrote for newspapers, magazines, novels, pornography, etc.- often using pseudonyms to disguise their origin (the name Val Lewton was one such pseudonym, used first for some novels in the 1930's, then revived later in his career to take ...
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- Cat People. Cat People is often referred to as Val Lewton’s masterpiece. The film was the first to be released by Lewton in 1942. Director Jacques Tourneur helmed the quintessential B horror film that is still as enjoyable over 80 years later.
- The Body Snatcher. Director Robert Wise crafted a true gothic masterpiece in The Body Snatcher. The film was based on the short story by science fiction legend Robert Louis Stevenson and the screenplay was actually co-written by Val Lewton under the name Carlos Keith.
- Bedlam. Boris Karloff’s next appearance in Val Lewton production Bedlam, is as Master George Sims of Mary’s of Bethlehem Asylum. The story follows a lord’s protégé in the 1700s, who tries to help the schizophrenic and mentally ill patients in the institution.
- I Walked with a Zombie. Another 1943 smash hit in Val Lewton’s production career was I Walked with a Zombie. In another collaboration between Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur, we see a very unexpected film if it is judged by its title.
Oct 4, 2019 · No stranger to doing things quickly (he wrote his pulp novels by checking into cheap hotel rooms for a weekend), Lewton produced nine such films for RKO (eleven overall) in a four-year period that began in 1942, starting with Cat People, followed by I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man, and culminating in Bedlam.
May 31, 2021 · Most readers of Bloody Disgusting already know about Val Lewton, the producer whose low-budget films for RKO practically invented the cinematic language of atmospheric horror. Working with ...
1. Cat People (1942) Not Rated | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller. 7.2. Rate. 85 Metascore. An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together. Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph.
