{"product_id":"i-walked-with-a-zombie-the-seventh-victim-4k-uhd","title":"I Walked with a Zombie \/ The Seventh Victim - 4K UHD","description":"\u003cp\u003eTerror lives in the shadows in a pair of mesmerizingly moody horror milestones conjured from the imagination of Val Lewton, the visionary producer-auteur who turned our fears of the unseen and the unknown into haunting excursions into existential dread. As head of RKO’s B-horror-movie unit during the 1940s, Lewton, working with directors such as Jacques Tourneur and Mark Robson, brought a new sophistication to the genre by wringing chills not from conventional movie monsters but from brooding atmosphere, suggestion, and sensual unease. Suffused with ritual, mysticism, and the occult, the poetically hypnotic\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eI Walked with a Zombie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand the shockingly subversive\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Seventh Victim\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eare still-tantalizing dreams of death that dare to embrace the darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eI Walked with a Zombie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1943\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProducer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur elevated the horror film to new heights of poetic abstraction with this entrancing journey into the realm between life and death. When she takes a job caring for a comatose woman on a Caribbean island, a young nurse (Frances Dee) finds herself plunged into a mysterious world where the ghosts of slavery haunt the present and witch doctors have the power to summon the living dead. Sugarcane swaying in a moonlit field, the hypnotic beat of voodoo drums, the relentless pull toward death—the otherworldly atmosphere of this bold reimagining of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis as close as studio-era Hollywood ever came to pure dream-state surrealism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Seventh Victim\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1943\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Death is good” is how producer Val Lewton summarized the message of his films, a credo that received its most explicit expression in this strikingly nihilistic shocker, the first film directed by regular Lewton editor Mark Robson. Kim Hunter makes her film debut as a young boarding-school student who, in search of her missing sister (proto-goth icon Jean Brooks), travels to New York’s bohemian Greenwich Village, where she uncovers a sinister shadow world of devil worshippers and murder. And what about that mysterious room furnished with nothing but a chair and a hangman’s noose? With its daring treatment of depression and queerness,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Seventh Victim\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehas haunted the margins of cinema for decades, its radical bleakness undiminished by time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSPECIAL FEATURES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003eNew 4K digital restorations of both films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003eOne 4K UHD disc of the films and one Blu-ray with the films and special features\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003eAudio commentary on\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eI Walked with a Zombie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efeaturing authors Kim Newman and Stephen Jones\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003eAudio commentary on\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Seventh Victim\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efeaturing film historian Steve Haberman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003eInterview with film critic and historian Imogen Sara Smith\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003eAudio essays from Adam Roche’s podcast\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Secret History of Hollywood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eShadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2005), a documentary featuring Newman; Val E. Lewton, son of producer Val Lewton; filmmakers William Friedkin, Guillermo del Toro, George A. Romero, John Landis, and Robert Wise; author Neil Gaiman; actor Sara Karloff; and others\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003eTrailers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003eEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003ePLUS: Essays by critics Chris Fujiwara and Lucy Sante\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew illustration by Katherine Lam\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Criterion Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46139738882222,"sku":"CC3605UHDBDUK","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0583\/4614\/3918\/files\/i_walked_with_a_zombie_Lime_Light_Front_UHD.png?v=1752591162","url":"https:\/\/limelightcollection.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/i-walked-with-a-zombie-the-seventh-victim-4k-uhd","provider":"Limelight Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}