4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 25, 2019
What a picture for Kim Hunter to have come into her own (and Mark Robson for that matter). The 7th Victim is a chilling gem and the motor to move the story forward is an audacious girl, Mary Gibson (Hunter), who makes a decision to leave her boarding school of stain glass and angelic choirs, to sear read more
"The Seventh Victim" screens this Saturday, October 24, 2015 at the Daystar Center
Where: The Daystar Center, 1550 S. State St.
When: 6:30 p.m.
The Seventh Victim (1943)—The RKO movie factory was working at full tilt, with producer Val Lewton releasing four films in 1943! The plot of Th read more
The Seventh Victim
Directed by Mark Robson
Written by Charles O’Neill and DeWitt Bodeen
1943/USA
RKO Radio Pictures
First viewing/Netflix rental
#171 of !001 Movies You Must See Before You Die This beautifully shot film is really more about death than it is about Satan worshippers. Mary Gi read more
Quite surprisingly, The Seventh Victim–in addition to being a disquieting, subtle thriller–is mostly about urban apathy and discontent. Though there aren’t any establishing shots of New York City (or of the small New England town protagonist Kim Hunter comes from), Robson and writ read more
My horror film class did a Val Lewton double feature, and one of the choices was a movie I’d never seen (the first movie was Cat People which I reviewed during my 31 Days of Horror here). The Seventh Victim is a bizarre movie that I’m still not sure I’ve processed fully. On the read more
