The Seventh Victim

Pre-60s horror Tuesdays: The main character Jacqueline (who still feels like the main character despite being onscreen very little and only showing up about a third of the way thru this) reveals a dangerous secret to her psychiatrist. Back then, gayness was a mental…

The Horror of Marna Larsen

“Death is good” is how producer Val Lewton summarized the message of his films, a credo that received its most explicit expression in this strikingly nihilistic shocker, the first film directed by regular Lewton editor Mark Robson. Kim Hunter makes her film debut as a young…

Criterion

80 Nothing but bad vibes. A young woman learns to recognize when something is a fruitless cause, even if that cause is trying to find your sister. Might be the most influential RKO horror film? Its impression is clearly felt over the 20th century of ambiguous conspiracy…

SilentDawn

Satanists over the city. The Leopard Man sense of society breakdown reworked into a large urban nightmare of pure desolation. Kim Hunter is told in the opening scene she shouldn't fear and go live life and The Seventh Victim then procceds in illustrate how that is a bad…

Filipe Furtado

Touched by evil. Tourneur is obviously a more talented filmmaker than Robson, but this is in many ways my fave Val Lewton horror, the world reduced to just pure bad vibes. The city is full of unknown punishment. A perfect horror movie.

Filipe Furtado

that glittering you see there for an instant that faint shimmer or coating of glamour that fairy dust is a host of stars scattered atop a void like confectioner's sugar on a midnight blackout-forest chocolate-chocolate-chocolate cake that everyone stands around admiring or…

nathaxnne [goodbye <3]

Incoherent, uncontrolled, and frequently clumsy; but also a quantum masterpiece where beauty and sublimity pop in and out of existence faster than you can measure it.

Jerry

Going off of a one sentence description of The Seventh Victim, I thought I was about to discover a hidden gem but man did it disappoint... It's far too short with not enough time spent on any character and its bleak ending could've been more powerful and significant if it…

cassandra

Almost impossible to review, especially having watched it late last night and then slept on it. I'm not entirely sure just how much of it's devastating power comes solely from it's ending. Even a little pre-warned it is crushing, not especially because you expected anything…

Owen