Cat People (1942)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:29
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... [More]
Starring: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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Reviews for Cat People
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In its complexity, it functions as a sharp, canny blueprint for the rest of Lewton's pictures. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Magnificent.
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ts techniques would be adopted by noir, its themes are aped by horror films and thrillers today. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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A thinking man's supernatural thriller. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
What works the best, though, is the compelling sense of conviction -- something missing from most 1940s horror films. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
The way it messes with your head -- and Jacques Tourneur's deft ability behind the camera -- make it quite the '40s standout. Full Review |
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7/10 |
It's what you don't see in a Val Lewton production rather than what you do see that makes it frightening. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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Beautiful and strange film, a timeless classic. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Pretensioso, artificial e com uma péssima atriz como protagonista, o filme empalidece frente à refilmagem comandada por Paul Schrader.
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3/5 |
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5/5 |
Atmospheric, chilling Tourneur classic
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