The latest conversation piece for Scorsese is the low-budget, WWII-era horror film producer Val Lewton. Scorsese has produced the new documentary Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows, which he also ...

AS the head of RKO’s low-budget horror unit in the 1940s, Val Lewton was supposed to crank out fright flicks that would compete with the more extravagant monster movies rolling off the conveyor ...

The late artist Val Lewton was captivated by the yin and yang of destruction and construction, so he might appreciate what's going on around his largest and best-known work, on the exhaust tower ...

Horror movies still haven’t learned the lessons Val Lewton taught so well back in the 1940s. In the endless tug-of-war between sensationalism and sensibility — between in-your-face gore and un ...

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 ...

Jeanne Brooks in 'The Seventh Victim' (1943). Via the Criterion Collection Born Volodymyr Ivanovich Leventon at Yalta, the film producer Val Lewton (1904-51) had many accomplishments to brag about and ...

The films of Val Lewton. Not coincidentally, all of these films were produced while the United States was at war; as Alexander Nemerov notes in Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures ...

On Tuesday, April 8, starting at 8:30 a.m. EST, TCM will launch a day-long tribute to the classic horror films produced by RKO Pictures. Over the course of its roughly 30-year existence, from 1929 ...

Oh, and jump scares, a whole lotta jump scares. Back in 1942, horror producer Val Lewton pioneered a technique in the film “Cat People” that’s now referred to as the “Lewton Bus.” ...

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