Cat People
Irena Dubrovna, a New York City-based fashion designer who hails from Serbia, begins a romance with marine engineer Oliver Reed. After they get married, Oliver starts to fear that Irena will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
January 29, 1909 in Sumner, Washington, USA
August 2, 1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
31 December 1911, Houston, Texas, USA
15 September 1904, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
August 5, 1891 in Eagle Grove, Iowa, USA
31 May 1888, New York City, New York, USA
20 January 1899, Italy
19 March 1907, New York City, New York, USA
March 30, 1884 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK
25 August 1878, San Francisco, California, USA
30 October 1915, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
April 23, 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
January 16, 2017
[Cat People's] masterstroke lies in a constant awareness of its audience, using their expectations of its B-movie horror title to draw out the film's tension.
August 29, 2015
Scenes where Irena shadows her rival are burned into cinema memory.
September 26, 2007
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.
September 22, 2014
...a startling, psychosexual horror picture - especially for its time.
March 25, 2006
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.
September 26, 2007
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.
February 28, 2017
While Cat People isn't among the scariest films ever made, there are a trio of truly suspenseful scenes which, quite ingeniously, leave just enough up to the audience's imagination to dial up the tension.
June 24, 2006
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.
October 03, 2016
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."
March 26, 2009
This is a weird drama of thrill-chill caliber.
October 14, 2014
It's psychological horror at its finest: timelessly terrifying and absolutely purr-fect.
