I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim 4K UHD (1943) (Criterion Collection)

[MifuneFan]

Criterion will be releasing a double-feature of Val Lewton productions, I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and The Seventh Victim (1943) on 4K on October 8th!

I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim: Produced by Val Lewton 4K Blu-ray

I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim: Produced by Val Lewton 4K Blu-ray



https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/76...-by-val-lewton

SPECIAL FEATURES

• New 4K digital restorations of both films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the 4K UHD and Blu-ray editions
• In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the films and one Blu-ray with the films and special features
• Audio commentary on I Walked with a Zombie featuring authors Kim Newman and Stephen Jones
• Audio commentary on The Seventh Victim featuring film historian Steve Haberman
• Interview with film historian Imogen Sara Smith
• Audio essays from Adam Roche’s podcast The Secret History of Hollywood featuring stories about the casts, crews, and productions of both films
• Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (2005), a documentary featuring Newman; Val E. Lewton, son of producer Val Lewton; filmmakers William Friedkin, Guillermo del Toro, George A. Romero, John Landis, and Robert Wise; actor Sara Karloff; and others
• Excerpts from “The Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.,” an episode of the PBS series Monstrum, hosted by scholar Emily Zarka
• Trailers
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: Essays by critics Chris Fujiwara and Lucy Sante

New illustration by Katherine Lam

Terror lives in the shadows in a pair of mesmerizingly moody horror milestones conjured from the imagination of Val Lewton, the visionary producer-auteur who turned our fears of the unseen and the unknown into haunting excursions into existential dread. As head of RKO’s B-horror-movie unit during the 1940s, Lewton, working with directors such as Jacques Tourneur and Mark Robson, brought a new sophistication to the genre by wringing chills not from conventional movie monsters but from brooding atmosphere, suggestion, and psychosexual unease. Suffused with ritual, mysticism, and the occult, the poetically hypnotic I Walked with a Zombie and the shockingly subversive The Seventh Victim are still-tantalizing dreams of death that dare to embrace the darkness.

[Hammerlover]

Wow, and in 4K too!

[Areyakiddin]

Nice! Although the cover weirdly reminds me of the early Criterion DVDs..

[brian9229]

Yes!!!!!!!! Wow, am I stoked for these...two of Val Lewtons best...now if Shout could release The Body Snatcher on uhd...

[Riwriwriw]

Finally! October is gonna be great from this alone!

Wonder how many discs it’ll be on. Both movies are pretty short so 1 would be fine I think…

[nicwood]

Originally Posted by Riwriwriw

Finally! October is gonna be great from this alone!

Wonder how many discs it’ll be on. Both movies are pretty short so 1 would be fine I think…

Both on 1x 4K and 1x BD.

[Number_6]

And boom goes the dynamite! Day one on this for sure!

Hopefully we can get Cat People in 4K at some point too.

[CompleteCount]

Roky Erickson would be proud.

[MifuneFan]

It will come in a standard case for anyone worried about Criterion's often wacky packaging choices.

[ponderingtheuniverse]

I hope this means that we'll be getting more Lewton in 4K down the line. I'd love for Cat People to get an upgrade.

[happydood]

Now THIS is what I've been waiting for. Beyond stoked. Would have been satisfied with a decent blu since the others have presented beautifully so far, but I ain't about to complain. Release of the year for me.

[SpookyDollhouse]

I Walked With A Zombie is one that feels like a long, long time coming. Really glad WAC didn't do it so we get a UHD Can't wait for this

[Rizor]

Originally Posted by Areyakiddin

Nice! Although the cover weirdly reminds me of the early Criterion DVDs..

I thought the same thing! Guess it's that black bar at the top. And it seems they added an arbitrary slant as if they were like, "oh no it looks too much like our old design!"

[BluProofie]

Incredible

[Benjis Dad]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Coming in October!

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/76...-by-val-lewton

Ohmygod yes yes YESSSSSSSS!!! (See my most-wanted list, below)

Thank you, Criterion! Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!

[happydood]

Originally Posted by SpookyDollhouse

I Walked With A Zombie is one that feels like a long, long time coming. Really glad WAC didn't do it so we get a UHD Can't wait for this

Not only this, but these two are deserving of some Criterion special features. I loved what WA did with Curse of Frankenstein, but that feels like an outlier at this point...

[moviemaker]

Very excited about this. A huge Val Lewton fan here. Also, love that it's not the dreaded digipak. Win-win.

For fans who want to do a deep dive, this 11-part podcast on Val Lewton is fantastic from The Secret History Of Hollywood:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...=1000385974076

And an episode of You Must Remember This:
https://www.youmustrememberthispodca...=1399921200958

I hope more of Val Lewton's films get the remastered treatment.

[The Sovereign]

Originally Posted by SpookyDollhouse

I Walked With A Zombie is one that feels like a long, long time coming. Really glad WAC didn't do it so we get a UHD Can't wait for this

It doesn't just feel that way - it has been a long time coming.

[moviemaker]

Hope Criterion upgrade Cat People next. B&W films in 4K are simply gorgeous.

[Number_6]

Interested to see how the restoration on Zombie looks.

The last time I watched it was the Warner DVD double-feature. There was at least one scene where the source looked like it was in rough shape.