May 19, 2023

This Day in Halloween: The Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur serial killer film "The Leopard Man" premieres in New York City in 1943. / Illustration by Haley Underwood

The Leopard Man premieres in New York City in 1943. The Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur film, based on Cornell Woolrich’s Black Alibi, is one of Hollywood’s earliest depictions of a serial killer.