Cat People (2-DVD)
SHE WAS MARKED WITH THE CURSE OF THOSE WHO SLINK AND COURT AND KILL BY NIGHT!
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Run Time: 1 hours, 13 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 20, 2016
- Originally Released: 1942
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph & Jack Holt | |
Directed by | Jacques Tourneur | |
Edited by | Mark Robson | |
Screenwriting by | DeWitt Bodeen | |
Composition by | Roy Webb | |
Art Direction by | Albert S. D'Agostino & Walter E. Keller | |
Produced by | Val Lewton | |
Director of Photography: | Nicholas Musuraca |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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Chicago Reader
To think of this film as a comfort movie is about as strange as it is to call this odd little B-picture a horror movie, because it's not, really. It's so much more.
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Midwest Film Journal
...A 'B' horror classic...
USA Today
Rating: 3.5/4 --
One of the most sexually and psychologically astute films of its time, tackling female sexuality in a way that was unheard of at the time.
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From the Front Row
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.
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New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
I do like a film that opens with a mission statement, and... Cat People starts thus: "Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness."
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Times (UK)
Rating: 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.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
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 rocks when she becomes consumed with the belief that she is the victim of a curse. According to Irena, the curse will make her turn into a deadly panther the minute she becomes emotionally aroused. In an effort to fix their problems, Oliver seeks psychiatric counseling for his beautiful and tormented young bride. But talking about her problems may only make them worse. The first of several interesting horror films by producer Val Lewton, CAT PEOPLE was innovative in its style. Joining Lewton's artistic sense and mastery of atmosphere with Jacques Tourneur's directing talent, the film created fear in its audience precisely by not showing too much. This restraint and emphasis on psychological tension rather than physical violence would go on to influence later horror directors.
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