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11/30/07
Cat People (1942)
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Reviews Counted: 32
Fresh: 30
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 8/10
Consensus: Influential noir director Jacques Tourneau infused this sexy, moody horror film with some sly commentary about the psychology and the taboos of desire.
Runtime: 73 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon) is a young, Serbian artist living in New York City. When she meets American Oliver Reed (Kent Smith), she falls in love and gets married. But their union hits the rocks when she becomes consumed with the belief... [More]
Starring: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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Reviews for Cat People
ts techniques would be adopted by noir, its themes are aped by horror films and thrillers today.
09/26/07
Cat People wasn't frightening like a slasher movie, using shocks and gore, but frightening in an eerie, mysterious way that was hard to define; the screen harbored unseen threats.
09/26/07
Top Critic More a film about unreasoning fear than the supernatural, this work demonstrates what a filmmaker can accomplish when he substitutes taste and intelligence for special effects.
09/26/07
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First in the wondrous series of B movies in which Val Lewton elaborated his principle of horrors imagined rather than seen, with a superbly judged performance from Simon.
06/24/06
What works the best, though, is the compelling sense of conviction -- something missing from most 1940s horror films.
05/17/06
Ladies who have such temptations -- in straight horror pictures, at least -- should exercise their digits a bit more freely than does Simone Simon in this film.
03/25/06
Top Critic Female sexuality is a rich source of a certain kind of horror - the kind of horror that plays upon the anxieties that prudish bourgeois men have about their wives' sex lives.
11/01/05
The way it messes with your head -- and Jacques Tourneur's deft ability behind the camera -- make it quite the '40s standout.
10/06/05
It's what you don't see in a Val Lewton production rather than what you do see that makes it frightening.
10/05/05
Pretensioso, artificial e com uma péssima atriz como protagonista, o filme empalidece frente à refilmagem comandada por Paul Schrader.
02/03/05
High-contrast frightfest with nervy lighting and production design and a well-maintained air of dread.
08/17/03
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