This is a dark physiological thriller ahead of its time. Underline message; Sometimes it?s better to be dead! God bless you Val Lewton! This is a film not to be missed! The scene with the chair and the noose is as chilling as anything in contemporary film. As with all Lewton film...( read more)
A young girl searches New York for her elder sister, who has fallen in with a group of devil-worshippers. This isn't top-notch Val Lewton but it's still pretty great. I think there are more scenes and more characters than the typically slender running time can adequately sustain....( read more)
Although most of the themes are left to imagination, as usual in any Val Lewton horror production, I surrender to the moody atmosphere director Mark Robson sets up. This was indeed a film ahead of its time, in its depiction of devil worshipers not as strange entities or mad caric...( read more)
An interesting blend of noir and horror. The wonderful use of shadows certainly enhance the horror scenes, particularly a creepy shower scene that obviously influenced Psycho. The satanic stuff might have also influenced Rosemary's Baby. I don't really care for the film's message...( read more)
The very last of the Val Lewton/RKO horror cycle--not chronologically, but the last for me to see--and one paired, on DVD, with a documentary on Val Lewton instead of another one of his movies (a rather interesting documentary with horror experts of the non-fiction writing kind a...( read more)
Very stylish and ahead of its time. Cool mixture of horror and noir. Interesting depiction of devil worshipers as not demons or cartoonish crazies- but as selfish and bad people but ones that could be your co-workers or neighbors. Great use of shadow and light.
wow what a chiller of a movie...i have just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a freaky movie but its really enjoyable as well....its an old Drama, Horror, Classics movie 2 watch but its really freaky as well...its got a really good cast of actors/actressess thro...( read more)
Actually, The 7th Victim is pretty similar to Rosemary's Baby, but made 25 years earlier. I must say that this is a terribly underrated early horror classic that is truly scary and suspenseful. Val Lewton really knows what he's doing. One thing that I didn't enjoy was Kim Hunter'...( read more)
Not unlike most of Val Lewton's stuff, short. 71 minutes, not much in the way of action which is fine, some very creepy moments and themes, but a far cry from, say, Hitchcock (yeah, I know, Master comparisons aren't fair.)
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