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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2020

      1. Lots of people have been turning to highbrow literature -- Boccaccio, Ibsen, Camus -- for guidance about life under a pandemic. But maybe there is something to learn from cheap B-movies as well, like the Boris Karloff thriller Isle of the Dead (1945).pic.twitter.com/D8BA64sWpR

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2020

      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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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2020

      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).

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2020

      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.

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2020

          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/ …

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        1. Jack Womack‏Verified account @jwomack 1 May 2020
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          Had forgotten "Isle" opens with Boris carefully washing his hands.

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