#The Seventh Victim

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"Your sister had a feeling about life; that it wasn't worth living unless one could end it." — THE SEVENTH VICTIM (1943) dir. Mark Robson

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The Seventh Victim (1943)

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day 23 of horror: my list to underrated essential horror films

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It's 2024, so we should start the year off properly. The Val Lewton-produced The Seventh Victim, classic horror-infused noir with murder, shadows, missing people, the lot.

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the seventh victim (1943) directed by mark robson

"I run to death, and death meets me as fast, and all my pleasures are like yesterday."

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The Seventh Victim (1943)

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BBC2 Horror Double Bill (1981)

The 7th Victim (1943)

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the urge to die in cinema: the seventh victim (1943), el conde (2023)

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I Walked with a Zombie and The Seventh Victim will be released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD together on October 8 via The Criterion Collection. Katherine Lam designed the cover art for Val Lewton productions.

1943's I Walked with a Zombie is directed by Jacques Tourneur (Cat People) and written by Curt Siodmak (The Wolf Man) and Ardel Wray. James Ellison, Frances Dee, and Tom Conway star.

1943's The Seventh Victim is directed by Mark Robson (Earthquake) and written by DeWitt Bodeen (Cat People) and Charles O'Neal. Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, and Kim Hunter star.

Both films have been newly restored in 4K with uncompressed monaural soundtracks. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

I Walked with a Zombie audio commentary by film historians Kim Newman and Stephen Jones

The Seventh Victim audio commentary by film historian Steve Haberman

Interview with film historian Imogen Sara Smith

Audio essays from Adam Roche's podcast The Secret History of Hollywood

Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy - 2005 documentary on producer Val Lewton featuring William Friedkin, Guillermo del Toro, George A. Romero, John Landis, Robert Wise, Neil Gaiman, and more

Trailers

Booklet with essays by critics Chris Fujiwara and Lucy Sante

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.

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Notable films that were released on August 21st...

#TheSeventhVictim (1943).

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#AnAmericanWerewolfinLondon (1981).

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#StageFright (1987)(Italy).

#Deliria

#Blade (1998).

#action

#DevilintheFlesh (1998)(TV premiere).

#thriller

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Dread by the Decade: The Seventh Victim

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★★★

Plot: As she searches for his missing sister, a teenage girl unveils the dark truth of a secret society.

Review: While not the strongest horror noir film, it's still enjoyable for its slow burning mystery and unique conclusion.

Year: 1943 Genre: Occult, Psychological Horror, Noir Country: United States Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 11 minutes

Director: Mark Robson Writers: Charles O'Neal, DeWitt Bodeen Cinematographer: Nicholas Musuraca Editor: John Lockert Composer: Roy Webb Cast: Kim Hunter, Erford Gage, Hugh Beaumont, Tom Conway, Mary Newton, Jean Brooks

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Story: 3/5 - Establishes mystery and racks up tension well, but underutilizes some subplots and features a rather lackluster confrontation.

Performances: 3/5 - Everyone does a decent job, save for Brooks, whose traumatized state unintentionally comes across as boredom.

Cinematography: 3/5 - Not particularly creative, though there are some well shot night scenes.

Editing: 4/5 - Solidly timed transitions.

Music: 3.5/5

Sets: 3.5/5 - Realistic and well-dressed, if not the most memorable.

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 3/5

Trigger Warnings:

Mild violence

Suicide (offscreen)

Emotional abuse

Grown men verbally express romantic interest in a teenage girl

Ableist language regarding mentally ill people

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Jean Brooks in The Seventh Victim (1943)

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Mark Robson’s “The Seventh Victim” August 21, 1943.

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Jacqueline Gibson (Jean Brooks) - The Seventh Victim (1943)

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On September 4, 2001, The Seventh Victim was released on DVD in the United States.