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 transcended the ...

With what seems to be a cyclical trend of massive box-office profit off of low quality, low budget horror movies, RKO Pictures sees the proverbial goldmine in their vintage collection of Val Lewton ...

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 belt ...

The Body Snatcher (RKO-Radio) is a double-barrelled horror picture (Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) which Producer Val Lewton and his associates have developed from the Robert Louis Stevenson short ...

Producer Val Lewton established the gold standard for a particular kind of B movie—smart, literate, and economical. Like his equally cultivated contemporary Preston Sturges, Lewton flourished at a ...

Nowhere else on television is such a genuine love for filmmaking consistently put on display as ADDED: in //the Turner Classic Movie documentaries, especially when they have the audacity to stretch ...