TITLE...........: The Seventh Victim (1943)
STARS...........: Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
DIRECTOR........: Mark Robson
WRITERS.........: Charles O'Neal, DeWitt Bodeen
GENRE...........: Horror, Mystery
TOMATOMETER.....: 95/63
IMDB SCORE......: 6.7
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036341
RUNTIME.........: 1h 11mn
SIZE............: 4.67 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 9000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1480x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.37:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: English FLAC 1.0
AUDIO2..........: Commentary by film historian Steve Haberman (2005)
AUDIO3..........: Essays from Adam Roche’s The Secret History of Hollywood
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2024-11-05
CHECKSUM........: 16812FE0FFC411DDA06F40A3DD443DC0


“Death is good” is how producer Val Lewton summarized the message of his films, a credo that received its most explicit expression in this strikingly nihilistic shocker, the first film directed by regular Lewton editor Mark Robson. Kim Hunter makes her film debut as a young boarding-school student who, in search of her missing sister (proto-goth icon Jean Brooks), travels to New York’s bohemian Greenwich Village, where she uncovers a sinister shadow world of devil-worshippers and murder. And what about that mysterious room furnished with nothing but a chair and a hangman’s noose? With its daring treatment of depression and queerness, The Seventh Victim has haunted the margins of cinema for decades, its radical bleakness undiminished by time.


Extras

• Audio commentary featuring film historian Steve Haberman (2005)
• Audio essays from Adam Roche’s podcast The Secret History of Hollywood
• Deliver Us From Evil - Interview with film historian Imogen Sara Smith
• Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (2005)
• Jean Brooks audio interview
• Trailer