Volume 53, Number 4 · March 9, 2006
He Walked with a Zombie
By Geoffrey O'Brien
The Val Lewton Horror Collection
9 films by Val Lewton
DVD box set, $59.98
Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures
by Alexander Nemerov
University of California Press, 213 pp., $60.00; $24.95 (paper)
The creative career of Val Lewton—the part with a continuing afterlife—lasted just four years, from the spring of 1942, when pre-production work began on his film Cat People, until April 1946, when Bedlam, the last of the eleven films he produced for RKO, was released. Nine of those films—all but the studio-mangled melodrama Youth Runs Wild and the underrated Maupassant adaptation Mademoiselle Fifi—have now been released on DVD as 'The Val Lewton Horror Collection,' providing a welcome opportunity for reimmersion in a body of work whose power to fascinate seems to have grown over time.
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