Val Lewton horror movie history

Quick history on Val Lewton's RKO horror movies in the 1940s.

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00:00Val Luton produced a string of atmospheric, low-budget horror movies in the 1940s at RKO

00:07Studio. He was given a title, a runtime, and a budget. Everything else was up to him and his

00:14team. The first film was Cat People in 1942, a movie that set the template for shadow and sound,

00:23the Luton bus, the swimming pool, where the horrors mostly came from what the audience

00:29imagined. This was followed by the Jane Eyre-style zombie movie, I Walk With a Zombie, then the serial

00:38killer movie, The Leopard Man, the satanic cult movie, The Seventh Victim, the mutiny thriller,

00:45The Ghost Ship, the child Christmas fantasy thriller, The Curse of the Cat People, which was

00:52a big departure from the tone of the original Cat People, and then three with Boris Karloff,

00:58The Body Snatcher, Isle of the Dead, and finally Bedlam.