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THE SEVENTH VICTIM: Dec 28th at 7:15
THE UNINVITED: Dec 28th at 9
Hollywood hit an artistic peak with the horror genre during the 40s. To
celebrate the publication of Mark Viera’s splendid new book Hollywood
Horror: From Gothic to Cosmic, we’re showing two peaks of the genre, THE SEVENTH VICTIM and THE UNINVITED. The latter is one of the most
delicately atmospheric horror films ever made, starring Ray Milland and
the perenially underrated Ruth Hussey as the new owners of a house
haunted by the ghost of a tremulous Gail Russell’s deceased mother. THE SEVENTH VICTIM may not be the best of the nine low-budget Val Lewton
horror films, but it may be the most unusual. The late Kim Hunter plays
a young girl who arrives in Greenwich Village penniless and in search of
her sister, whom she discovers is a member in a cult of
Satan-worshippers.
Additionally, a selection of photographs from Hollywood Horror will be
on exhibit from December 10 through January 4th in the Frieda and Roy
Furman Gallery of the Walter Reade Theater. Populated with vampires,
monsters, mummies, zombies, werewolves, sinister scientists, aliens and
psychopaths, horror films are permanently imprinted on our culture.
Hollywood Horror celebrates the ever-popular and enduring cinematic
genre by providing an entertaining narrative and pictorial history of
the classic American horror film from the silent era to 1968. Author
Mark A Vieira is a photographer, film historian and also the author of
Hurrell's Hollywood Portraits and Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood,
all published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (www.abramsbooks.com).
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