The Seventh Victims

Livetweeting Robert Wise & Val Lewton's THE BODY SNATCHER on 31st October 2017

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@IrisVeysey @jbrelly @JulesArk @tobytram @iambags Night all! May you all have Burking-free dreams :)

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@jbrelly @tobytram @JulesArk @IrisVeysey @iambags Can't remember any horses in Abel Ferrara's sequel

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@JulesArk @IrisVeysey @jbrelly @tobytram @iambags BelLugween?

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@JulesArk @IrisVeysey @jbrelly @tobytram @iambags My pleasure! Thanks all for joining in. Only question now is.. what do we watch next year?

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@IrisVeysey @jbrelly @tobytram @JulesArk (discounting the non-horror ones, natch)

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@IrisVeysey @jbrelly @tobytram @JulesArk Of the ones we've done so far, it's an outlier, but I would argue BEDLAM is the strangest of the bunch overall

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@tobytram @jbrelly @JulesArk @IrisVeysey There's a host of wonderful ephemera from its release here: https://t.co/MHWaXrR5Rc

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@tobytram @jbrelly @JulesArk @IrisVeysey Oddly though, James Agee (arguably Lewton's biggest champion at the time) found fault with it, though was still largely favourable

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@tobytram @jbrelly @JulesArk @IrisVeysey It ended with Lewton's best BO gross of his career

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@tobytram @jbrelly @JulesArk @IrisVeysey It was very popular! It packed them in at the Hawaii Theatre on its release, and did well at NY's Rialto later on

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@JulesArk @jbrelly @IrisVeysey @tobytram Very true! In many ways different, but with the same suffocating air of fear - VL's films really are sui generis (even today)

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Just me or does Russell Wade have a touch of the Judge Reinholds about him? #touchoftheJudgeReinholds

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NAWWWWWWW

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@JulesArk @IrisVeysey @tobytram @jbrelly @flickerdrome @tpaleyfilm @iambags *taps nose*

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@jbrelly @JulesArk @IrisVeysey @tobytram @flickerdrome @tpaleyfilm @iambags A wee nod to Ulmer's THE BLACK CAT too

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That lighting again tho

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@JulesArk @IrisVeysey @tobytram @jbrelly @flickerdrome @tpaleyfilm @iambags His best performance? I love him in TARGETS too, mind

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@IrisVeysey I imagine Tory Party policy discussions run along similar lines

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Reminder that Lewton, being told not to have a message in his films, replied "we do have a message & our message is that death is good!"