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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780650633
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780650638
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 04, 2005
Running Time: 143 minutes
Sales Rank: 32257
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1942
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The studio gave Val Lewton small budgets and lurid pre-tested film titles. Lewton working with rising filmmakers and emphasizing fear of the unseen turned meager resources into momentous works of psychological terror. Directed by Jacques Tourneur Cat People is the trailblazing first of Lewton's nine horror classics. Simone Simon portrays a bride who fears an ancient hex will turn her into a deadly panther when she's in passion's grip. Simon returns in The Curse of the Cat People a sequel in title and a landmark study of a troubled child in fact. Robert Wise makes his directing debut co-helming a gothic-laced mix of fantasy and fright so astute it was used in college psychology classes.Running Time: 143 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR UPC: 053939724424
Amazon.com:
Val Lewton's name is synonymous with the subtlest, most mysterious brand of horror filmmaking in Hollywood's golden age, and the nine horror classics he produced at RKO between 1942 and 1946 constitute the most remarkable cycle of creativity in B-movie history. He and director Jacques Tourneur scored with both a popular hit and a masterpiece in 1942: Cat People. The story involves a pretty young Serbian woman in Manhattan (Simone Simon) convinced that her ancestors had practiced animal worship during the Middle Ages--and that she herself might shape-change into a lithe, ravening panther if her passions were aroused. The film is uncannily successful in keeping the viewer guessing whether this is a phobia borne of morbid obsession and sexual repression, or a genuine, horrific possibility. There are two sequences of matchless artistry and almost unbearable suspense--a lonely, echoing walk through pools of lamplight alongside Central Park, and a late-night swim in a deserted indoor pool--that build to throat-grabbing climaxes and remain milestones in the history of screen horror. The Curse of the Cat People (1944), a sequel that is not quite a sequel, is a pretend-horror movie that's really a contemplation of the fragility of childhood. --Richard Jameson
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Rating: - One of My Favorite Holiday Movies
Yes, "Curse of the Cat People" is a sequel to Jacques Tourneur's Cat People (1942) . . . sort of. But this follow-up is really the story of an odd little girl with a rich inner life. Through her eyes, we get a glimpse of what it's like to be a child, to live in a world where the lines between fantasy and fact are wonderfully blurred. And if you're going to believe in the spirit of Christmas, you have to look beyond the cold, hard light of the day-to-day.
Robert Wise's first directorial ... Read More
Rating: - Horror and Beauty, Lewton & Torneur
This odd, accomplished, and beautiful film technically belongs to the "horror" genre, but while disturbing and sad, and with some tense moments, it is not so much frightening as rather like a film noir-folk-morality tale. Legendary filmmakers Val Lewton and Jacques Torneur (who did "Curse of the Demon", another cult classic that is more in the "horror" style than this film) collaborated on this atmospheric little gem.
Set in Manhattan in the 1940s, the story follows the fate of a recent ... Read More
Rating: - Ordeal of the Cat People
Fete of Death
The cat woman is doomed--and, what's more, she knows it--on account of her affliction in this film noir classic. Becuase she knows she's doomed, she becomes sexually repressed. If for no other reasons, disregarding its sexual suppression aspects, "Cat People" is a brilliant, scary, though understated, film because of two outstanding creepy scenes.
The first occurs when the cat woman stalks another woman down a deserted, silent street in the dead of night. The only sounds ... Read More
Rating: - These Cats Belong Together
[This review is part of my 31 Days of Halloween series]
It's great that these two films are packaged as one, because they reveal a lot about about their producer, the legenday Val Lewton.
You hear about how actors get "typed," saddled with a certain kind of role or character for the rest of their professional lives. Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi are good examples. But you never hear about producers getting typed. They may prefer one genre over another or one style over another- ... Read More
Rating:  - Neglected classic
Every so often there comes an artist who works in a disrespected genre, yet who has enough talent and vision to almost make that whole genre seem respectable; at least in his own takes on it. And, when two such artists get together, their synergy is even greater. Such was the fortuitous pairing of film producer Val Lewton (née Vladimir Leventin) and film director Jacques Tourneur, who double-handedly resurrected the RKO Radio Pictures film studio after the financial losses of the two artistically great but ... Read More
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