Lewton's masterpiece
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10/22/09
Curse of the Cat People (1944)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:18
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.3/10
Runtime: 73 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: In this excellent, eerie sequel to Jacques Tourneur's CAT PEOPLE, a widower, Oliver Reed (Kent Smith), the father of the introverted six-year-old Amy (Ann Carter) remarries. Lonely and curious, Amy... [More]
Starring: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Elizabeth Russell
Director: Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch
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Reviews for Curse of the Cat People
This picture remains one of the most ethereal looks at childhood the cinema has produced.
11/14/07
Made as sequel to the profitable Cat People, this is highly disappointing because it fails to measure up as a horrific opus.
11/14/07
Top CriticHardly a moment is wasted.
11/14/07
Top CriticNo curses or Cat People.
01/09/07
One of the weakest movies from the Val Lawton unit. It's difficult to tell whether it's a horror film, a ghost story of just the imaginings of a sad, lonely, little girl.
06/24/06
Far from being a horror film, it's a touching, perceptive and lyrical film about childhood, psychologically astute and occasionally disturbing as it focuses entirely on the child's-eye view of a sad, cruel world.
06/24/06
Truly creepy, atomospheric classic directed by Robert Wise.
04/06/06
It makes a rare departure from the ordinary run of horror films and emerges as an oddly touching study of the working of a sensitive child's mind.
03/25/06
Top CriticThis rather silly follow-up to Cat People isn't so much unwatchable as it is merely unnecessary.
10/06/05
RKO expected to get another supernatural chiller, with people turning into panthers and killing folks in the streets. Boy, were they disappointed.
10/05/05
A lovely family story cleverly couched in psychology.
09/18/05
No review available.
07/02/05
No review available.
04/21/04
Marvellously eloquent, and touchingly accurate in accessing the secret landscape of a child's mind.
05/24/03
Some kind of gentle, bizarre masterpiece.
01/27/03
A triumph of atmosphere over story.
10/03/02
Gorgeous, atmospheric little fairy tale
08/26/02
No review available.
07/26/02
This movie is not for everyone, but children who can identify with Amy will like it.
03/30/02
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