Curse of the Cat People (1944)
85 %
Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 17 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 7.2/10
Runtime: 73 mins
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 begins to explore her late mother's life and discovers her maternal bloodline is cursed. In... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Elizabeth Russell, Ann Carter
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This picture remains one of the most ethereal looks at childhood the cinema has produced.
11/14/07 11:44 PM
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 11:43 PM
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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.
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06/24/06 08:09 AM
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 04:29 AM
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 04:31 AM
Top Critic This rather silly follow-up to Cat People isn't so much unwatchable as it is merely unnecessary.
10/06/05 03:15 AM
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 07:47 PM
Marvellously eloquent, and touchingly accurate in accessing the secret landscape of a child's mind.
05/24/03 08:05 AM
This movie is not for everyone, but children who can identify with Amy will like it.
03/30/02 08:07 AM
Often unjustly neglected in favour of its predecessor, The Curse of the Cat People is a great film in its own right, perhaps second only to the magical realist The Spirit of the Beehive as an evocation of the horrors of childhood.
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