The Seventh Victim playing at The Colonial October 10, 2010

Sun, Oct 10 @ 2PM THE SEVENTH VICTIM In this, another (though quite different) hauntingly atmos- pheric tale from Val Lewton, a young Kim Hunter (in her first featured role), while searching for her missing sister, traces her to a strange and sinister cult of modern-day satanists, operating in Greenwich Village. Much like in Rosemary's Baby, which was written and filmed a quarter century later, this classic develops an almost palpable atmosphere of dread and paranoia. As has been noted by Carlos Clarens, in his excellent reference book, An Illustrated History of The Horror Film, "Rarely has a film succeeded so well in captur- ing the nocturnal menace of a large city, the terror beneath the everyday, the suggestion of hidden evil." (NOTE for movie buffs: If the main set looks somehow familiar, it is because it was originally built the previous year for Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons, on which director Mark Robson had worked as editor.) (Bill Roth) Mark Robson, US, 1943, NR, 71 min. Print preserved by the Library of Congress.

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