During the 1940s' Val Lewton produced nine horror movies for RKO Studios. His production unit had to put up with the "B" movie titles that the studio dictated, but they turned out beautiful and poetic films on tiny budgets. These movies are all great examples of "less is more"; that the things unseen and the unknown have a greater fright potential than that which is explicitly shown. It always starts with a literate script. This might be a good lesson for some of our modern horror filmmakers.
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