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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.
1881 in Cheshire, England, UK
December 5, 1889 in Fulton, Missouri, USA
March 30, 1884 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK
30 October 1915, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
August 2, 1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
August 5, 1891 in Eagle Grove, Iowa, USA
25 August 1878, San Francisco, California, USA
31 December 1911, Houston, Texas, USA
7 January 1903, Birmingham, England, UK
April 23, 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
19 March 1907, New York City, New York, USA
August 12, 1896 in Tottenham, Middlesex, England, UK
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.
September 22, 2014
...a startling, psychosexual horror picture - especially for its time.
August 29, 2015
Scenes where Irena shadows her rival are burned into cinema memory.
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."
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.
October 14, 2014
It's psychological horror at its finest: timelessly terrifying and absolutely purr-fect.
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.
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.
March 26, 2009
This is a weird drama of thrill-chill caliber.
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.