The Seventh Victim

The Seventh Victim (1943)

  • 92% of critics liked it
    (13 reviews)

  • 67% of users liked it
    (1,229 ratings)

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… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
DeWitt Bodeen, Charles O'Neal
Genres
Drama, Horror, Classics
In Theaters
Aug 21, 1943 Limited
RKO Radio Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Even the occasional good performance can't offset this minor dualer.

  • , Time Out

    What other movie opens with Satanism in Greenwich Village, twists into urban paranoia, and climaxes with a suicide?

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    This is the greatest of producer Val Lewton's justly celebrated low-budget chillers.

  • Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

    Sweeps from beginning to end in a single clean, unhurried but unflagging, rush of narrative.

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

    Endlessly gripping and endlessly fascinating.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Stella D


    a brilliant dark mystery from producer val lewton, this was director mark robson's first film. it's a rather obvious inspiration for rosemary's baby with a shower scene that looks awfully familiar as well. with a nihilistic tone and a shocking final scene, it's a… More

  • Michael G


    The 7th Victim doesn't sound like much on paper but viewing it is an entirely different matter. It's a precursor to Rosemary's Baby, The Third Man and has has a shower scene that... well, just see it for yourself. One of Val Lewton's more impressive… More

  • AJ V


    This movie is predictable and unscary, but there are some good scenes too. This movie's not bad, but it's not good either.

  • Anthony L


    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 films,… More

  • Stephen M


    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… More

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