A peerless film portrait of a major if under-recognized Hollywood moviemaker, “Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows” elegantly encompasses the work and career of a producer who doggedly transcended the ...

You cannot accuse TCM of underestimating the intelligence, or at least film geekiness, of its viewers. “The Man in the Shadows” dispenses with the usual niceties of introducing its subject, producer ...

With Halloween around the bend, spooky DVDs are flooding the market, but you do not have to be a fan of the genre to relish the release of the nine B-pictures Val Lewton produced for RKO between 1942 ...

I’ll be celebrating Halloween a day early this year, courtesy of Turner Classic Movies. Starting tonight at 8, TCM will screen seven of the 11 B-pictures Val Lewton produced for RKO in the 1940s.

Lobby card for “I Walked with a Zombie,” produced by Val Lewton, directed by Jacques Tourneur. Courtesy of Jerry Murbach. Zombies and ghost ships and cats — oh my. For the month of April, the Stanford ...

Though William Castle and Val Lewton produced classic horror films -- Castle also directed his thrillers -- their films and personalities couldn’t have been more different. Castle was a master showman ...

Once upon a time, producer Val Lewton’s horror films were only considered the “B” (or secondary) part of a movie double-bill; a slick flick like “The Bad and the Beautiful” was the “A,” or the main ...

To label producer Val Lewton’s incredible series of movies as “horror” is to miss the point. In nine films, from “Cat People” to “Bedlam,” Lewton explored our innermost fears, desires and ...

How will you give back this season? Create a lasting impact close to home — help local journalists uncover the stories that matter. The Stanford Theatre (221 University Ave., Palo Alto) will present ...