I Walked With a Zombie/The Seventh Victim: Criterion Collection|Frances Dee

Product Code: CC3606BDUK

EAN: 5060952893674
Catalogue Code: CC3606BDUK
Title: I Walked With a Zombie/The Seventh Victim: Criterion Collection,
Principle Contributor: Frances Dee
Contributors: Jacques Tourneur, Mark Robson, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Kim Hunter, Val Lewton, Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray, Charles O'Neal, DeWitt Bodeen, Roy Webb, J. Roy Hunt, Nicholas Musuraca, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Christine Gordon, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Darby Jones, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Kim Hunter, Erford Gage, Hugh Beaumont
Genre: Horror
Produced by Label/Studio: Criterion Collection, 1943
Published by: Spirit Entertainment, 14 Oct 2024
Format: Blu-ray / Restored,
Media: 1 disc(s)

Bonus Footage|Commentary: 'I Walked With a Zombie': Kim Newman and Stephen Jones (authors); 'The Seventh Victim': Steve Haberman (film historian)|Documentaries: 'Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy' (2005)|Interviews: Imogen Sara Smith (film critic/historian)|Audio essays from Adam Roche's podcast 'The Secret History of Hollywood'; Essays by critics Chris Fujiwara and Lucy Sante; New illustration by Katherine Lam|Trailers

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Cover Notes: Terror lives in the shadows in a pair of mesmerizingly moody horror milestones conjured from the imagination of Val Lewton, the visionary producer-auteur who turned our fears of the unseen and the unknown into haunting excursions into existential dread. As head of RKO's B-horror-movie unit during the 1940s, Lewton, working with directors such as Jacques Tourneur and Mark Robson, brought a new sophistication to the genre by wringing chills not from conventional movie monsters but from brooding atmosphere, suggestion, and psychosexual unease. Suffused with ritual, mysticism, and the occult, the poetically hypnotic I Walked with a Zombie and the shockingly subversive The Seventh Victim are still-tantalizing dreams of death that dare to embrace the darkness. I Walked with a Zombie (1943): Producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur elevated the horror film to new heights of poetic abstraction with this entrancing journey into the realm between life and death. When she takes a job caring for a comatose woman on a Caribbean island, a young nurse (Frances Dee) finds herself plunged into a mysterious world where the ghosts of slavery haunt the present and witch doctors have the power to summon the living dead. Sugarcane swaying in a moonlit field, the hypnotic beat of voodoo drums, the relentless pull toward death - the otherworldly atmosphere of this bold reimagining of Jane Eyre is as close as studio-era Hollywood ever came to pure dream-state surrealism. The Seventh Victim (1943): "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 boarding-school student who, in search of her missing sister (proto-goth icon Jean Brooks), travels to New York's bohemian Greenwich Village, where she uncovers a sinister shadow world of devil worshippers and murder. And what about that mysterious room furnished with nothing but a chair and a hangman's noose? With its daring treatment of depression and queerness, The Seventh Victim has haunted the margins of cinema for decades, its radical bleakness undiminished by time.

Extras: Bonus Footage|Commentary: 'I Walked With a Zombie': Kim Newman and Stephen Jones (authors); 'The Seventh Victim': Steve Haberman (film historian)|Documentaries: 'Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy' (2005)|Interviews: Imogen Sara Smith (film critic/historian)|Audio essays from Adam Roche's podcast 'The Secret History of Hollywood'; Essays by critics Chris Fujiwara and Lucy Sante; New illustration by Katherine Lam|Trailers

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