Cat People (1982)
64 %
Reviews Counted: 36 Fresh: 23 Rotten:13 Average Rating: 6.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
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 her sexuality is intimately linked with that of her brother's--as well as with a strange... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Ed Begley, Annette O'Toole
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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
Paul Schrader's hammering, art-porno remake of Jacques Tourneur's deft little thriller.
09/26/07
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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
Kinski was essential to the film as conceived, and she's endlessly watchable.
09/26/07
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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
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
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