{"id":40481,"date":"2023-04-25T09:54:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T13:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=40481"},"modified":"2023-04-25T09:54:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T13:54:27","slug":"the-seventh-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/04\/25\/the-seventh-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seventh Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNo doodles this week because I have been making the mistake of watching quality entertainment that requires my strict attention. One of the movies I watched that made me set aside my cheap sketchbook was The Seventh Victim<\/em> (1943) produced by the incomparable Val Lewton. I won’t tell you anything about it. Drink in this movie’s dream-like quality for yourself. Don’t watch a trailer. Just watch it.<\/a> It’s free!<\/p>\n

It’s one of those movies I would have hated when I was a kid because there are no monsters in it. If there was no stuntman stuffed into a rubber costume, I would lose patience and watch something else. Fortunately I came to my senses.\u00a0I now see more in the shadows of this old black and white film than I do in billions of dollars squandered on special effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No doodles this week because I have been making the mistake of watching quality entertainment that requires my strict attention. 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