# Val Lewton
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val lewton (May 7, 1904 – March 14, 1951) was a Russian-American novelist, film producer and screenwriter best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s. His son, also named val lewton, was a painter and exhibition designer.
== Early life ==
Lewton was born Vladimir Ivanovich Hofschneider (Russian: Владимир Иванович Левентон, Ukrainian: Володимир Іванович Левентон, both with surname Leventon) in Yalta, Imperial Russia (now in Ukraine), in 1904.
CBB Presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 36 - Cat People (1942)
This week, the Bear Cave of Terror looks back over 80 years to discuss one of guest host Rob Staeger's noir horror favorites, Cat People, directed by Jacques Tourneur and released from RKO's horror unit headed by the legendary Val Lewton. We look at this subtle, but inspirational "frugally-budgeted…
Episode 52: The Seventh Victim (1943) & Inferno (1980)
Welcome to episode 52 of The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts.
This week we are going to New York in search of missing sisters and finding ourselves in a whole heap of trouble with the powers of darkness.
Firs…
The Horrors of Val Lewton: The Body Snatcher (1945) with Steven Warren Hill
Steven and I continue our retrospective on Val Lewton with The Body Snatcher! This movie featured the final team up of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Karloff would go on to do 2 more movies with Val Lewton.
When next this retrospective picks up, we’ll be talking about Isle of the Dead from 1945…
Episode 235: I Walked with a Zombie (w/special guest Maya Annik Bedward)
Drusilla and Josh discuss the Val Lewton classic, I Walked with a Zombie. They are joined by Black Zombie director, Maya Annik Bedward. From wiki: “I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 American horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Val Lewton for RKO Pictures. It stars James Ellison,…
The Working Dead
Before the zombie ate anybody, it went to work. It was a Haitian creature—a body without a will, dug up and put on a sugar plantation—and the horror wasn’t that it might come for you… no, not at all. The horror was that you might actually become one. That’s the whole thing.So Pete drags the room ba…
Episode 66: Bedlam (1946) & The Crazies (1973)
Welcome to episode 66 of The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts.
This week we are exploring themes of institutionalisation, corruption, conspiracy and insanity, with one film set in the most notorious psychiatri…
Spellbreakers Ep. 186: Halloween Horror Trailers Pt I - Beginnings of Cinema to Rosemary’s Baby
Matt Trump opens a two-part Halloween special on the history of horror movies, which he calls the most American genre of the most American art form, with classic trailers along the way.
He goes from Caligari, Nosferatu and Lon Chaney to Universal's Dracula and Frankenstein, Tod Browning's Freaks, …
Frame By Frame: Val Lewton
UNL Film Studies Professor Wheeler Winston Dixon scares up the films of 1940s horror movie producer Val Lewton.
Spooky Month #3: The Uninvited Cat People (2026 Preview)
This episode spoils Cat People (1942) and The Uninvited (1944).
It's spooky season once again, meaning another horror double feature! This October we continue our horror journey with a double feature from the 1940s by watching Val Lewton's atmospheric Cat People (1942) and the haunted-house myster…
Attack of the Southern Culture on the Skids!
Attack of the Killer Soundtrack - Episode 39 This week we are joined by our special guest co-host Rick Miller - singer/songwriter/guitarist for Southern Culture on the Skids. We talk to Rick about his music and movie influences, all while building our own soundtrack from SCOTS movie-related songs. …
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