Fresh
This is a weird drama of thrill-chill caliber.
Variety Staff, Variety
Cat People
She knew strange, fierce pleasures that no other woman could ever feel!
1942 · 1h 13m · Not Rated
Horror, Mystery, Romance
Directed by
Jacques Tourneur
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Cat People
Overview
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
Director and cast
- Jacques Tourneur Director
- Simone Simon as Irena Dubrovna Reed
- Kent Smith as Oliver Reed
- Tom Conway as Dr. Louis Judd
- Jane Randolph as Alice Moore
- Jack Holt as The Commodore
- Alan Napier as Doc Carver (uncredited)
- Henrietta Burnside as Sue Ellen (uncredited)
- Alec Craig as Zookeeper (uncredited)
- Eddie Dew as Street Policeman (uncredited)
- Elizabeth Dunne as Mrs. Plunkett (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
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.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Fresh
First in the wondrous series of B movies in which Val Lewton elaborated his principle of horrors imagined rather than seen, with a superbly judged performance from Simon.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Rotten
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.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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