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The Seventh Victim

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The Seventh Victim
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NR,1hr 11min
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August 21, 1943
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RKO Radio Pictures
Synopsis: Producer Val Lewton once more utilized leftover Magnificent Ambersons sets for his psychological horror piece The Seventh Victim. Kim Hunter arrives in New York's Greenwich Village in search of her errant sister Jean Brooks. Gradually, the naive Hunter is drawn into a strange netherworld of Satan worshippers. The story is a bit too complex for its own good (especially with only a 71-minute running time to play with), but editor-turned-director Mark Robson and screenwriters Dewitt Bodeen and Charles ... Full Synopsis
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One of producer Val Lewton's stylish B-horror movies for RKO, The Seventh Victim presaged modern horror with homegrown witches and implications of domestic evil. Shrouded in a moody, film noiresque atmosphere of deep black-and-white shadows, the attempts of Kim Hunter's "good" Mary to rescue her sister Jacqueline from a witches' cult take on unsettling overtones of unspoken emotion and repressed jealousies. ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Mary Gibson
Dr. Louis Judd
Frances Fallon
Gregory Ward
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