Many of the directors and producers Farber championed in Negative Space are favored by Shepherd as well, including Val Lewton (Curse of the Cat People, a 5-star rated film), Preston Sturges, Jean-Luc Godard (Alphaville, Contempt), Luis Buñuel (The Exterminating Angel) and Nicolas Roeg (Cold Heaven).
Bedlam (1946) suggested by the eighth (and last) engraving in the series "A Rake's Progress" by William Hogarth
The film, directed by Mark Robson and produced by legendary horror producer Val Lewton, centres around a group of people on a small island, whose lives are threatened by a force that some believe to be the plague, and others believe to be the work of a vorvolaka.
Out of their eight films together, one of their most notable films include Zombies on Broadway co-starring Bela Lugosi, a semi-sequel to Val Lewton's I Walked With a Zombie.
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The song is sung ominously by a zither-playing blind street singer in the opening scene of Val Lewton's 1943 suspense film, "The Ghost Ship."
The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 film directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, and produced by Val Lewton.
Elizabeth Russell, the sister-in-law of Rosalind Russell, was a regular in films produced by Val Lewton, having appeared in Cat People (1942), its sequel The Curse of the Cat People (1944) and The Seventh Victim (1943).