"Death is good," producer Val Lewton said when asked what he was trying to say with one of his classy but creepy B-movies.
October 26, 2005 (Press Release) --
Five good reasons to stay home on Halloween
Tuesday October 25 10:39 PM ET
"Death is good," producer Val Lewton said when asked what he was trying to say with one of his classy but creepy B-movies. Like a busted clock, he's right once in a while -- notably on that darkest of nights, October 31.
Halloween 2005 brings an especially fine crop of chilling DVD entertainments. Let's unearth the best:
The Val Lewton Horror Collection: Nine B-movie wonders Lewton produced for RKO in the 1940s. Lewton's best-known works -- the stylish and sexy "Cat People" and the voodoo excursion "I Walked With a Zombie" -- staked out the psychological horror genre. Both were done with director Jacques Tourneur, who gave Lewton's works a sophisticated noirish look. The men "were like Lennon and McCartney," horror director Guillermo del Toro says.
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Tuesday October 25 10:39 PM ET
"Death is good," producer Val Lewton said when asked what he was trying to say with one of his classy but creepy B-movies. Like a busted clock, he's right once in a while -- notably on that darkest of nights, October 31.
Halloween 2005 brings an especially fine crop of chilling DVD entertainments. Let's unearth the best:
The Val Lewton Horror Collection: Nine B-movie wonders Lewton produced for RKO in the 1940s. Lewton's best-known works -- the stylish and sexy "Cat People" and the voodoo excursion "I Walked With a Zombie" -- staked out the psychological horror genre. Both were done with director Jacques Tourneur, who gave Lewton's works a sophisticated noirish look. The men "were like Lennon and McCartney," horror director Guillermo del Toro says.
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