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The Seventh Victim

Friday, Nov 1 at 6:00 p.m.

Location: Bartos Screening Room

Dir. Mark Robson. 1943, 71 mins. U.S. Archival 35mm print from the Library of Congress. With Kim Hunter, Jean Brooks, Tom Conway, Hugh Beaumont, Isabel Jewell. B-movie impresario Val Lewton’s string of low-budget masterpieces in the 1940s remain among the most influential horror movies ever made, works of astonishing ingenuity that used off-screen space, sound, and shadow to create diabolical tales of people who descend into dark worlds of terror and ambiguity, such as Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie. Perhaps the most complex and sinister of them all is this pocket-size portrait of evil and despair, starring Oscar-winner Hunter in her film debut as a young woman who leaves the safety of her boarding school to track down her missing sister (a haunting Jean Brooks), who has fallen in with a death-obsessed, Satan-worshipping cult. Writes Michael Koresky, “A sober, melancholy tale of fragile humanity that only limns the edges of the supernatural, the film is firmly grounded in reality; nevertheless, when it’s over, we feel like we’ve been to hell and back.” 

Tickets: $15 / $11 senior and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. 

Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission. 

Buy a combo ticket to see The Seventh Victim and The Fog for $20!

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