OCCULT Pt 4: Night of the Demon (1957) & The Seventh Victim (1943)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
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🗓️ 15 November 2019
⏱️ 94 minutes
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This week Mike is joined by Adam Robinson to discuss two occult movies by horror legends Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur: The Seventh Victim (1943) and Night of the Demon (1957).
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| 0:00.0 | The In the 1940s, horror began to progress from the Gothic monsters of the 30s into something |
| 0:28.4 | more restrained but altogether darker and more insidious. Prousa Val Luton and director Jacques Tourneur |
| 0:37.0 | made their own brands of monster movies with RKO, |
| 0:40.0 | such as Cat People and The Leopard Man. |
| 0:43.0 | In these movies the monsters weren't shown on screen but were instead suggested through |
| 0:50.5 | atmospheric lighting and sound. |
| 0:53.0 | But both producer Val Luton and director Tournier |
| 0:57.0 | also separately made their own occult horror movies. |
| 1:01.0 | Both brought this restrained atmospheric sensibility. |
| 1:04.8 | Luton's film made in 1943 about a satanic cult living in New York |
| 1:09.8 | and Tourners film made in 1957 based on an MR James story about a demonic curse that takes |
| 1:16.1 | three days to kill its victims, both had hugely long-lasting influences on the horror genre, |
| 1:22.1 | and still have the power to shock and |
| 1:24.2 | terrify audiences to this day. |
| 1:26.7 | How can we differentiate between the powers of darkness and the powers of the mind? |
| 1:30.3 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the occult as we discuss Val Lutons the seventh victim and |
| 1:40.5 | Jacques Tourners Night of the Demon. |
| 1:43.2 | I have what is perhaps the finest library in the world on witchcraft in the black arts. |
| 1:53.7 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. |
| 1:55.6 | My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. |
| 1:58.4 | If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome. |
| 2:00.8 | In this podcast we explore and dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking |
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