2. To judge by the poster, Isle of the Dead is a schlocky creature feature, but it was produced by Val Lewton, who had the gift of making art in the guise of trash.pic.twitter.com/bWxKbFyFCw
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2. To judge by the poster, Isle of the Dead is a schlocky creature feature, but it was produced by Val Lewton, who had the gift of making art in the guise of trash.pic.twitter.com/bWxKbFyFCw
3. Lewton was hired by RKO in 1942 because the studio was tired of art. They lost their shirt with Citizen Kane & wanted to copy Universal Pictures franchise of monster flicks. So they handed Lewton a list of tawdry titles (Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie).
4. Lewton's realized that horror movies worked better if the monsters were off-screen, if the subject was fear (low budgets made that decision easier to come up with). So he turned his assignment into a chance to make psychological thrillers.
5. Almost all of Lewton's movies are great & Isle of the Dead holds a particular interest now since it's a study of how authoritarianism & scapegoating flourish under the stress of a pandemic. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/isle-dead-pandemic-lewton/ …
I started reading fiction for the first time since middle school
Same. Strange that, huh?
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Interesting... I've been debating a watch of this. Guess I'll give it a shot.
This is my nomination for B-movie classic for the age of #COVID19. @heerjeet https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053363/ …
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