Episode 187: Don't Fear Death With Val Lewton

==Show Notes==
: We examine the career of producer Val Lewton, dive into his filmography of atmospheric creepers and discuss CAT PEOPLE and I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE.
==Films Discussed==
* Produced by Val Lewton
** The Cat People (1942) Dir. Jacques Tourneur
** I Walked with a Zombie (1943) Dir. Jacques Tourneur
** The Leopard Man (1943) Dir. Jacques Tourneur
** The Seventh Victim (1943) Dir. Mark Robson
** The Ghost Ship (1943) Dir. Mark Robson
** The Curse of the Cat People (1943) Dir. Robert Wise
** The Body Snatcher (1945) Dir. Robert Wise
** The Isle of the Dead (1945) Dir. Mark Robson
** Bedlam (1946) Dir. Mark Robson
** My Own True Love (1949) Dir. Compton Bennett
** Please Believe Me (1950) Dir. Norman Taurog
** Apache Drums (1951) Dir. Hugo Fregonese
* Gone with the Wind (1939) Dir. Victor Fleming
* Citizen Kane (1941) Dir. Orson Welles
* Night of the Demon (1957) Dir. Jacques Tourneur
* The Haunting (1963) Dir. Robert Wise
* The Sound of Music (1965) Dir. Robert Wise
* Evil Dead (1981) Dir. Sam Raimi
* Tropical Malady (2004) Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
== Discussion Notes ==
* The scariest thing - nothing! 
** Or being kidnapped and thrown in a van
** Or financial failure
* Val Lewton: producer as auteur
** In the vein of Roger Corman and David O. Selznick
* RKO Pictures: "Showmanship Instead of Genius"
* Collective sigh from our hosts at the mention of elevated horror
* 'Blood under the door', 
* Proto-noir genre storytelling
* A movie becoming a place
==Listener Letters==
* Juan from Texas
** Mexican Golden Age of Cinema
** What do our hosts know on the subject? Nothing!
* The Exterminating Angel (1962) Dir. Luis Buñuel
* Y Tu Mamá También (2001) Alfonso Cuarón
* Famed Characters of Mexican Cinema
** La India Maria, Santo, Cantinflas
== Post-Outro Discussion ==
* Laser Blast Film Society
* Scream for Help (1984) Dir. Michael Winner
* Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) Dir. Stewart Raffill
** The R-Rated cut!
** A star-studded cast including Denise Richards, Paul Walker, Ellen Dubin, and Bernie himself - Terry Kiser
* No Deposit (2015) Dir. Frank D'Angelo
* Sicilian Vampire (2015) Dir. Frank D'Angelo
* Mac & Me (1988) Dir. Stewart Raffill
* Roar (1981) Dir. Noel Marshall
** Starring a terrified Tippie Hedren and Melanie Griffith
* Mannequin Two: On the Move (1991) Dir. Stewart Raffill
* Bikini Beach (1964) Dir. William Asher
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