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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 19, 2021 · Bill Ryan celebrates the nine horror films that Val Lewton produced for RKO between 1942 and 1946, like The Seventh Victim and Cat People.
Oct 4, 2019 · No stranger to doing things quickly (he wrote his pulp novels by checking into cheap hotel rooms for a weekend), Lewton produced nine such films for RKO (eleven overall) in a four-year period that began in 1942, starting with Cat People, followed by I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man, and culminating in Bedlam.
Val Lewton. 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.
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- Cat People. Cat People is often referred to as Val Lewton’s masterpiece. The film was the first to be released by Lewton in 1942. Director Jacques Tourneur helmed the quintessential B horror film that is still as enjoyable over 80 years later.
- The Body Snatcher. Director Robert Wise crafted a true gothic masterpiece in The Body Snatcher. The film was based on the short story by science fiction legend Robert Louis Stevenson and the screenplay was actually co-written by Val Lewton under the name Carlos Keith.
- Bedlam. Boris Karloff’s next appearance in Val Lewton production Bedlam, is as Master George Sims of Mary’s of Bethlehem Asylum. The story follows a lord’s protégé in the 1700s, who tries to help the schizophrenic and mentally ill patients in the institution.
- I Walked with a Zombie. Another 1943 smash hit in Val Lewton’s production career was I Walked with a Zombie. In another collaboration between Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur, we see a very unexpected film if it is judged by its title.
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...
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...
