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The 7th Victim

The 7th Victim

1943
Drama, Horror
1h 11m
Mary Gibson, a naive orphan, goes to Manhatten to find her missing sister Jacqueline. Her investigation leads her to Jacqueline's secret husband, and also to a strange cult of Diabolists who are also hunting Jacqueline. (imdb)
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The 7th Victim

1943
Drama, Horror
1h 11m
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Rated 20 Mar 2023
82
51st
A disjointed narrative with too many characters is partially compensated for by the mysterious atmosphere and surprisingly dark ending. Overall OK, but I was hoping for more.
Rated 03 Jul 2011
94
97th
A fantastic blending of noir and horror. This is an eerie, creepy film which delights with gothic atmosphere and chills with its somber messages. I'm not sure if I've seen a Hollywood film from this era with such a dark ending. It's a stunner. There are some inconsistencies in tonality, especially when characters seem to take things far less seriously than they should. But the boldness of the material, stunning high contrast photography and downright weird scenes help ameliorate the obstacles.
Rated 06 Oct 2012
85
60th
"The 7th Victim" mixes horror, mystery, occult, and film noir all into one. If you're a fan of any of these genres, I highly recommend this film. You usually can't go wrong with a Val Lewton flick.
Rated 11 Oct 2018
75
79th
Very effective noir where character's backstories seem to cut into one another. The most baffling part of the movie to me was the Cyrano character who I assumed was the actual love interest, not Dude McNobody that admits his love at the end so that we feel less bad for him after his wife...God this movie is bleak. I loved it.
Rated 29 Jan 2021
82
77th
Early on a character says dismissively, "Oh, people who talk about suicide don't commit it" and from then on the film becomes a meta-commentary determined to prove the obvious. There's use of negative space - blackness so inviting and devastating it holds its own gravity, a valley of the shadow of death - beautiful in its pull and the meaning it lays in its wake. The film seems to fear life in favor of death. It's kind of a miracle in that regard.
Rated 17 Feb 2011
81
64th
Cool little mysterious film with really good atmosphere and tension. The B-movie production values show, but the technical aspects are good enough to not detract too much from an otherwise well constructed and, at the time, daring film.
Rated 30 Oct 2011
85
71st
This bleak-as-fuck horror film from the forties skirts the usual scares (especially when dealing with a satanic cult) and goes for the slow-burn of existential dread.
Rated 21 Feb 2016
71
59th
A movie about the girl with the worst haircut in the world, who desperately looks for her sister, another girl who sports the best haircut in the world.
Rated 12 Mar 2012
90
95th
Woah, that ending! How did they get away with that in 1943? Like the other Val Lewton films I've seen, this is less about plot details and more about building atmosphere. It's genuinely oppressive at times, enhanced hugely by Nicholas Musuraca's chiaroscuro photography and certain scenes that can only be described as surreal. The whole thing is creepy, dream-like, very dark and hugely entertaining.
Rated 23 Aug 2013
88
93rd
What starts off as a fairly typical noir takes a remarkable turn into a very dark and bizarre place. The world these characters inhabit gradually reveals itself as a frightening one filled with existential misery and fear, a world in which death and evil are embraced like life preservers. What a strange and subtly terrifying concept. There's some stunning chiaroscuro photography here as well, and it must have one of the boldest, least typical endings of any Hollywood film of its time.
Rated 29 Feb 2016
76
32nd
Really great atmosphere, so great one can easily forget how much of it is stupid, including the world's most inexplicably ineffectual satanists.
Rated 25 Jan 2010
93
91st
One of the best B movies ever made. Great use of shadow and suspense. Almost jacobean in atmosphere.
Rated 08 Nov 2008
62
41st
A Val Lewton production, released nine months after the attention-getting Cat People. It's a more muddled affair, but Lewton's trademark visual influence is there. Director Mark Robson uses dark corridors, enveloping shadows and offhand creepy images (a lonely nooses hanging in an empty room, for example) as if they're full-fledged characters. It's hard to parse the meaning of the narrative at times. The mood, on the other hand, is unmistakable due to the imposing gloom that hangs over the film.
Rated 10 Nov 2011
86
51st
a good and suspenseful mystery film. nice ending too. noteworthy as kim hunter's first film.
Rated 22 Oct 2008
3
31st
Permeates atmosphere at every moment, but gives absolutely no reason to be invested.
Rated 15 Apr 2011
55
44th
As long as you don't go in expecting to be frightened, there is something to this Val Lewton production. Its subtlety works in its favor, and though ultimately anti-climatic and not terribly remarkable, some interesting themes entertained along the way make it worth a watch.
Rated 01 Oct 2017
81
66th
Loved the use of light and shadow, the pacing, and the way director Robson draws out the suspense along the way. The film looks like a standard "what happened to my sister" film, but takes a turn toward the strange and sinister about halfway through. The finale feels choppy, like a scene or two was cut from the script.
Rated 19 May 2007
10
17th
Probably the most boring of all the Val Lewton "quiet horror" epics (although that takes some doing)
Rated 03 Nov 2022
69
22nd
The mystery of what happened to the sister is compelling, but the reveal's unsatisfying & makes other characters - like her ridiculously relaxed husband - seem absurd. A devil worshipping cult opposed to violence is even stupider. Arthouse types who love imposing their interpretations onto so many vaguely sketched characters - w/ backgrounds & motivations only hinted at -will no doubt love this, but the less pretentious among us will feel like they jumped into a daytime soap opera mid-season.
Rated 11 Mar 2009
70
54th
My least favorite of the Lewton chillers; it's hard to take the villains seriously. But it does have many of the Lewton virtues. Kim Hunter is quite good here as usual.
Rated 16 Nov 2013
90
87th
A quantidade de elementos sensacionais nesse filme é infinita, desde adoradores do diabo até suicídio, é ultra dark e o final dele impressiona especialmente levando em consideração a época e país em que foi feito.
Rated 13 Nov 2015
87
88th
Jean Brooks' hair looked real nice. Prob the most inaccurate portrayal of Satanists ever tho.
Rated 16 Aug 2008
9
76th
Delightfully twisted.
Rated 24 Sep 2007
50
15th
A bit stodgy--but generally good diabolical noirish fun. One more quality product from Mr. Val Lewton.
Rated 24 Feb 2016
9
42nd
Star Rating: ★★★
Rated 10 Jul 2017
82
84th
Entertainingly kooky noir with evocative cinematography and some dodgy acting by Kim Hunter. I'll never look at Satan the same way again.
Rated 20 Apr 2013
40
8th
kayip, kayip kiz kardes, satanizm,
Rated 05 Oct 2012
20
30th
Very flawed, but quite interesting. The acting and extremely disjointed narrative can be a bit off-putting, but it's shot really well and is pretty unique.
Rated 20 Apr 2014
81
68th
81.000
Rated 10 Jul 2010
74
46th
It's got a great mysterious vibe going on, and it was surprisingly dark thematically for a 40s movie - devil worship, suicide, etc. But for the most part the movie didn't totally click with me, and it seemed to drag a lot, despite its short running time.
Rated 28 Aug 2008
70
52nd
Sort of cheesy at times, and some illogical decisions are made (why was there no hurry to report the murder of the private eye?). The dark ending was unexpected and very effective, though.
Rated 30 Dec 2010
77
59th
76.875
Rated 10 Dec 2018
60
89th
I found The Seventh Victim (1943) rather ordinary by 1943 standards. Sure it has it's fetishes and dashes of suspense, but compared to other thrillers from it's time, it's a little weird this one's so rendered for it's influence. Very polished B-movie, no doubt. Mark Robson does great for his first directorial work and Tom Conway provides that elegance the Sanders family was known for. Quality movie, but I don't really see the chilling hype in this one.
Rated 21 Apr 2019
70
65th
Intriguing noir variant, Val Lewton-style.
Rated 08 Dec 2019
60
35th
Noir-ish plot that involves a missing woman, except it seems like everyone else knows where she is. The plot is mired down with too many weird angles, but it sure has a creepy ambiance.
Rated 01 Sep 2020
50
35th
Strange.
Rated 21 Nov 2020
9
88th
Audaciously tragic mystery begins with Mary (Hunter) searching for her missing sister in NYC's Village, only to find she's fallen prey to a cult. So many aspects worth admiring: the uncompromisingly bleak tone, empathetic depictions of depression and isolation, thoughtful discussions of death, plus all those bohemian Village scene details and vividly drawn minor characters. When Hunter asks her hairdresser if someone they know is unhappy, the hairdresser responds 'I guess most people are, Mary.'
Rated 08 Oct 2021
78
63rd
An unusual film noir where violence has been substituted with mystery and elements of horror. Although quite watered-down as a depiction of the sinister workings of satanic cults, there is enough uncanny suspense to appreciate the effort, and the ending.
Rated 07 Feb 2022
62
80th
Most characters were written quite poorly and the story does get convoluted at times, but I still enjoyed it quite a lot. I am a sucker for satanic cult films after all.
Rated 25 Aug 2022
100
99th
The frontality of every scene textually involving suicide. And then we get the Lord's Prayer scene, Judd and the failed writer at the Greenwhich Village, talking to the people of devil worshippers. And then the most gruesome ending of all time in any film ever made. A young sister full time school to find her sister, now bound to kill herself following this cult. And really, what's left? This existence is so cruel, brutal, paranoid. Is there any proof life is better than death? Shower scene!
Rated 26 Feb 2023
20
7th
This is so bad on so many levels, Stilted writing, stiff acting, and a plot that will put you to sleep.

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