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I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim: Produced by Val Lewton

Edition no. 1236

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  • Release Date: Tuesday, 08 October 2024
  • Country of Release: USA
  • MSRP: $39.95
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I Walked with a Zombie | The Seventh Victim
Licensor Information
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

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.

  • Year: 1943
  • Time: 69 min.

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Technical Specifications

Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
English PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English

Supplements

Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Documentary, Theatrical Trailer, Interview, Podcast, Insert, Featurette
  • 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 critic and historian Imogen Sara Smith
  • Audio essays from Adam Roche’s podcast The Secret History of Hollywood
  • 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; author Neil Gaiman; 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
  • Trailer for I Walked with a Zombie
  • Trailer for The Seventh Victim
  • Essays by critics Chris Fujiwara and Lucy Sante

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Restoration Information

I Walked with a Zombie
Restoration by:
The Criterion Collection
Year: 2024
Scanned at: 4K Digital
Restored at: 4K Digital
Sources:
35mm Original camera negative
The Seventh Victim
Restoration by:
The Criterion Collection
Year: 2024
Scanned at: 4K Digital
Restored at: 4K Digital
Sources:
35mm Original cut negative

Release Notes on Restoration

I Walked with a Zombie and The Seventh Victim are presented in the aspect ratio of 1.37:1. These new 4K restorations were created from the 35 mm nitrate original camera negatives. The negative of The Seventh Victim had large amounts of mold throughout. Digital restoration helped mitigate the damage, but there is still some mold residue present in the picture. The original monaural soundtracks were remastered from a 35 mm safety composite fine-grain for I Walked with a Zombie and a 35 mm original soundtrack positive for The Seventh Victim.