Cat People
1942
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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 ...
Oct 4, 2019 · She died in 2014 before I ever saw her again. But I still have the letter I thought I lost, and like Lewton’s films themselves, it remains a personal invitation, sent from a faraway place. A series of Lewton’s films are available to stream on the Criterion Channel through December 31, 2019.
2.2K. 46K views 2 years ago #CatPeople #DarkCornersReview. If ever there was a filmmaker made for a series called Dark Corners, then it is Val Lewton. The 9 films that make up Lewton’s RKO...
Feb 9, 2013 · Val Lewton is best known as the father of the low-budget horror film. Best known for Cat People, he created dark masterpieces of psychological terror at the time of the movie monster. By Tony...
Nov 26, 2020 · That’s the case with Val Lewton, a legendary producer who developed a reputation for creating A-movie horror on a B-movie budget by leaning into implied and suggestive horror amidst heavily...
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 30, 2018 · A Flower in the Mud: Val Lewton’s Isle of the Dead. By Dan Callahan. Features — Oct 30, 2018. Share. V ladimir Nabokov noted in his novel Despair that all pre–World War II homes in Berlin displayed a print of Arnold Böcklin’s painting Isle of the Dead.
