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Isle of the Dead (1945) - The Constant Bleeder
Maybe the creepiest of producer Val Lewton's great low-budget horror films for RKO in the 1940s. Like the best of them, it's strikingly adult, it moves at a deliberate pace, it splashes shadows everywhere and it has a sophisticated sense of ambiguity. It also brings some star power with Boris Karloff's great performance—he's a very