The 11/10/95 episode of TV's "X-Files" (episode 7 of season 3, "The Walk" written by John Shiban) contained a good tribute to Cat People's Alice-in-the-swimming-pool sequence, complete with ambiguous shadows on the walls.
I always likened Val Lewton with William Castle (House of Wax, House on Haunted Hill, The Tingler), except that Castle used gimmicks like the buzzing seat and smell-o-vision.