Borgo Pass Horror Podcast

The Seventh Victim

March 16, 2023 Jim Towns and Livio Merino
Borgo Pass Horror Podcast
The Seventh Victim
Show Notes

Jason Henderson of Castle of Horror podcast and Castle Bridge Media publishing joins Jim Towns for an in-depth discussion on RKO's The Seventh Victim, from 1943.

Produced by Val Lewton and directed by first timer Mark Robson, the film stars a young Kim Hunter (Zira in Planet of the Apes), Lewton regular Tom Conway, Jean Brooks (The Leopard Man/The Invisible Man Returns) and  Hugh Beaumont ("Leave it to Beaver") in a dark tale of devil worship and mental derangement, evocatively photographed in stark black and white-a Lewton trademark.

Content Warning: this episode contains discussions on suicide and mental illness.