{"id":1639,"date":"2011-01-15T18:26:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T01:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2011-01-15T18:26:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T01:26:32","slug":"the-leopard-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"The Leopard Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been obsessed with Val Lewton lately, I even bought the box set of his films, <em>The Val Lewton Horror Collection<\/em>. It&#8217;s well worth the price, here are 9 great films produced by a true low budget genius at my favorite studio, RKO, made by some of Cinema&#8217;s greatest artists and artisans. A wonderful treat. Anyway while watching <em>The Leopard Man<\/em> I noticed it was based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich, the pulp writer who has had more books turned into films than any of his contemporaries. A reclusive writer that has had an enormous cultural influence on contemporary psychic reality. So I thought I&#8217;d order his novel, <em>Black Alibi, <\/em>then I found out someone had beaten me to the punch, a little research led me to a brilliant article on <em>The Leopard Man<\/em>. Here&#8217;s a link to it,<em<a href=\"http:\/\/cineaction.ca\/issue71sample.htm\">The Strange Pleasure Of The Leopard Man<\/a><\/em> it&#8217;s well worth reading. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been obsessed with Val Lewton lately, I even bought the box set of his films, The Val Lewton Horror Collection. It&#8217;s well worth the price, here are 9 great films produced by a true low budget genius at my favorite studio, RKO, made by some of Cinema&#8217;s greatest artists and artisans. A wonderful treat. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}