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05/26/06
Cat People (1982)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:23
Rotten:13
Average Rating:6.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: After Irena (Nastassia Kinski), a young woman with a mysterious past, is reunited with her brother Paul (Malcom MacDowell), a series of bizarre events is set into motion. When Irena discovers that... [More]
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Ed Begley
Director: Paul Schrader
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Reviews for Cat People
This is very good piece of filmmaking.
01/01/00
Cat People is a most unusual love story.
02/04/04
Lumbering but titillating.
09/03/02
Cat People is a good movie in an old tradition, a fantasy-horror film that takes itself just seriously enough to work, has just enough fun to be entertaining, [and] contains elements of intrinsic fascination in its magnificent black leopards.
10/23/04
Top CriticThe emotional arousal of the original is replaced with sexual arousal and what we have is an erotic gorefest that should not have been made.
10/26/02
The late, great Ferdinando Scarfiotti's elaborate set designs imagine New Orleans as a post-feminist kingdom whose traditions are on the brink of destruction.
08/06/02
Paul Schrader's hammering, art-porno remake of Jacques Tourneur's deft little thriller.
09/26/07
Top Criticnothing if not interesting, and it has several sequences that are genuinely electrifying and audacious
08/20/02
When it's not going for outlandish smut, Cat People is a shambling bore.
08/20/02
You just can’t understand what it’s supposed to be about or why the hell anyone felt the need to devote time and money to creating it.
08/05/02
In 1982, Paul Schrader seemed a very odd choice to remake Val Lewton's classic 1943 horror movie. The original was a model of restraint and subtlety and the remake, frankly, isn't.
09/26/07
Doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense
08/05/02
The result has a certain cinematic beauty, and Kinski, in particular, plays her role with an appropriate cat-like presence. Yet alongside the 1942 version (produced by Val Lewton, directed by Jaques Tourneur) it is clear which one is the winner.
04/17/01
Most guys like it for the full frontal nudity and the kinky "tie me up" sex scene, but it is an interesting film to watch for other reasons.
08/17/02
Kinski was essential to the film as conceived, and she's endlessly watchable.
09/26/07
Top CriticKitten's got claws!
05/24/05
Schrader's rather misogynistic film is confused in its intentions.
09/26/07
Ludicrous or not, Cat People is gorgeous to behold, due mostly to cinematographer John Bailey's marvelous detailed rendering of New Orleans in autumn.
09/26/07
The seductively exotic surface of this mythically underpinned fantasy might be offset for some by much graphic gore, but if you can buy the romantic metaphors for the primitivisms of sexual obsession, the film delivers down the line.
06/24/06
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