A peerless film portrait of a major if under-recognized Hollywood moviemaker, “Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows” elegantly encompasses the work and career of a producer who doggedly transcended the ...

You cannot accuse TCM of underestimating the intelligence, or at least film geekiness, of its viewers. “The Man in the Shadows” dispenses with the usual niceties of introducing its subject, producer ...

Lobby card for “I Walked with a Zombie,” produced by Val Lewton, directed by Jacques Tourneur. Courtesy of Jerry Murbach. Zombies and ghost ships and cats — oh my. For the month of April, the Stanford ...

Once upon a time, producer Val Lewton’s horror films were only considered the “B” (or secondary) part of a movie double-bill; a slick flick like “The Bad and the Beautiful” was the “A,” or the main ...

To label producer Val Lewton’s incredible series of movies as “horror” is to miss the point. In nine films, from “Cat People” to “Bedlam,” Lewton explored our innermost fears, desires and ...

We continue with our October HorrorFest tribute to the great Val Lewton and his films of mystery, suspense and atmosphere by considering the 1943 production of I Walked with a Zombie, released by RKO ...

Today, October 4, is the first Friday in October so I begin my annual month of Friday HorrorFest Film highlights. The great thing about this blog post series is that I get to re-watch these great old ...

The Grade-B horror pictures made in the 1940's for RKO by the producer and writer Val Lewton -- several of them in collaboration with the director Jacques Tourneur -- may have been put together on the ...

On January 29, 2008, Warner Home Video will release Martin Scorsese Presents Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows on DVD, as well as a giftset -- The Val Lewton Horror Collection that has been ...

IN 1942, RKO Pictures needed to recoup the box office lost by Orson Welles’ two masterworks “Citizen Kane” and “The Magnificent Ambersons” as well as a way to compete with Universal’s box office ...