Mary Gibson (Kim Hunter) is a young woman who leaves school for girls in which they live as internal, to move to New York and search for Jacqueline (Jean Brooks), her older sister remains missing. There you will discover that this was related to a dangerous satanic cult.
Estimable heading left of the legendary RKO and sponsored by the always interesting Val Lewton, who commissioned the same direction then a first-Mark Robson ( The Island dead, The clay idol, Harder They Fall ...).
is a psychological thriller that shows tilt into the world of cults, focusing on the emotional and social scars that they leave some of members.
Though his script is burdened by obvious gaps see narratives that are inconsistent certain passages of the plot, and display the uncertain and fuzzy granting of roles to bland mishmash of characters presented to us, there are several splendid moments that gives us this tape series B: strong psychological inducement to which is subject Jacqueline by cult members to accept a drink containing poison, the night that she suffers persecution at the hands of a guy who wants to end his life, the disturbing picture of a room adorned only with a chair and a rope hanging from the ceiling or the shower scene that will undoubtedly inspire Hitchcock due to the sequence famous murder of Janet Leigh in Psycho .
is clear that Robson was not Tourneur, but nobody can dispute his skill at creating atmospheres menacing and nightmarish expressionism heirs, highlighted, in this case, the excellent and oppressive black and white photograph of a gender specialist Nicholas Musuraca ( Cat People, the Past, Blue Gardenia ... ).
One of the curious points of history, is the presence of a character who already were in Cat People of Tourneur: the psychiatrist Louis Judd (Tom Conway). Interface allowing both accounts.
Ultimately, The Seventh Victim is welcome and highly recommended film that will appeal to devotees of the noir thriller -forties.
Rating: Good .
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