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Documentary about the great 1940s horror movie producer Val Lewton, featured on the 2005 DVD release "The Val Lewton Horror Collection." | add synopsisAwards:
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Excellent overview of the RKO films of Val Lewton moreCast
(Credited cast) | Ramsey Campbell | ... | Himself |
 | James Cromwell | ... | Narrator |
| Joe Dante | ... | Himself |
| Harlan Ellison | ... | Himself |
 | William Friedkin | ... | Himself |
| Neil Gaiman | ... | Himself |
| Mick Garris | ... | Himself |
| Steve Haberman | ... | Himself |
| Sara Karloff | ... | Herself |
 | John Landis | ... | Himself |
| Richard Matheson | ... | Himself |
| Kim Newman | ... | Himself |
 | George A. Romero | ... | Himself |
 | Guillermo del Toro | ... | Himself |
 | Robert Wise | ... | Himself |
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With a collection of Hollywood horror big guns talking about the films they love, this documentary on the life and career of Val Lewton is bound to make make you want to dive into his best known horror films.
Focusing on the nine horror films that Letwton made for RKO this film is as much about what is scary and the horror film's changing face as it is about its subject. Lewton, he produced the films and had input on the scripts, pretty much changed the face of horror as we know it. Gone were the monsters we could see, killed mostly due to budgetary considerations, and in their place we were given monsters of the mind, with horrors we never saw, only imagined. The films ended up being scarier as a result because the monster could be what ever we imagined it to be and not a man in a suit. Lewton's work foreshadowed the films of the 1960's including Hitchcock's Psycho.
This is a breezy 53 minutes that really only suffers in that you don't want it to end. Packaged as part of a DVD box set of the films, I'm hard pressed as when to say you should watch the film, before you dive into the films or after. I don't think it matters so long as you see it.