The Body Snatcher Reviews
Antagony & Ecstasy
A strong, well above-average effort in almost every way, there's no evidence at all that Lewton's first brush with money and success dulled his instincts.
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| Original Score: 8/10
CinePassion
Researchers and healers are closer to the subjects on the autopsy slab than to their living patients in this acerbic chimera of shadow and sacrifice
Film Freak Central
there's a fascination with the ultimate futility of ever being something beyond opportunistic and solipsistic.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Too stuck on being literate to be a great movie ... .
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| Original Score: B
TV Guide's Movie Guide
The first and best of the three Val Lewton-Boris Karloff collaborations for RKO.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Top CriticSettings are inexpensive but sufficient for the needs. Production values, in general, however, aid materially in making this picture a winner.
Combustible Celluloid
This is the most elegant and leisurely of the Val Lewton horror films, up until the whopper of an ending.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Film4
It is certainly far more accomplished and evocative than some critics have suggested.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Wildly overrated, but elegantly produced horror film
| Original Score: 3/5
Even though this film is taken from a modest stage play of a few seasons back, its humors are as stale and mechanical as those of the oldest such farce.
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| Original Score: 2/5
One of the lesser products of Val Lewton's years as the head of RKO's horror-film unit.
