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	Cat People (1942 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cat People is a 1942 horror film which tells the story of a young Serbian woman, Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon) living in New York City who is haunted by the myth of the cat people of her village.
		The film is notable for frightening audiences through the suggestion of unseen horrors with cast shadows and ambigious sound effects relying on the power of audience imagination, specifically in the celebrated swimming-pool sequence.
		Although Cat People is usually categorized as a horror movie, many film critics also consider it a film noir, as Irena assumes many of the traits of both femme fatale and the typical noir hero alienated from conventional society, psychologically wounded and morally ambiguous.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cat_People_(1942_film) (694 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, CAT PEOPLE (1942)
		CAT PEOPLE was the first of a series of atmospheric thrillers produced by Val Lewton and the first collaboration between Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur.
		CAT PEOPLE is important not only because it is an excellent movie, but because it influenced many of films that came after.
		One of the charms of CAT PEOPLE is its simplicity.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews/catpeople.html (1321 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Cat People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Cat People is based on a 1942 horror film, but it is distinguished by substance and subtlety, not shock value.
		Cat People opens with a dreamlike sequence showing fl panthers in a wonderfully gnarled tree and ends with a very magical scene between Irena and Oliver.
		In Cat People as in his previous two movies, Hardcore and American Gigolo, director Paul Schrader explores the intricate textures of desire and the interplay between eros and animality.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_8072.html (364 words)

	Review - Cat People (1942) / Curse of the Cat People (1944) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The people of her village in Serbia have passed down over generations the legend of the Cat People-women who turn into vicious wild cats at the first kiss from a true love.
		Despite the film's B-movie status and hokey special effects, "Cat People" is a wonderfully entertaining look at the development of fear, fantasy, and loneliness and their evolution into insanity.
		The film continues as Amy insists on playing with Irena (who, in this film, is protective and benevolent rather than a vicious killer) and her father demands that she stop fantasizing for fear that she will succumb to madness like Irena.
	www.cinetalk.org /review_cat_people_and_curse_of_the_cat_people.htm (599 words)

	Cat People (1982 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cat People is a 1982 horror film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, and John Heard.
		Jerry Bruckheimer served as executive producer, Alan Ormsby was the screenwriter, whose script was loosely based on the story by DeWitt Bodeen, the screenwriter for the acclaimed 1942 original.
		Cut to a fleabag motel where a blasé prostitute finds an angry panther instead of a client; after mauling her, the cat is captured by the police and a team of zoologists: Oliver Yates, Alice Perrin and Joe Creigh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cat_People_(1982_movie) (370 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of Cat People (1942)
		The statuette in her apartment (as well as a drawing she does at the beginning of the film) depicts a phallic sword impaling a fl cat -- the mythological representation of the wicked women of Irena's village.
		Were it not for a rather explicit shot late in the film (done at the studio's insistence and over the protestations of both Lewton and Tourneur), the film's beautiful ambiguity regarding Irena's animalistic tendencies might have stood to the tragic finale.
		The pacing prowls with the lazy grace of the cat on the hunt.
	classic-horror.com /reviews/catpeople.shtml (758 words)

	goatdog's movies - Cat People, 1942
		Watching this film, it is evident that he was honing his skills, creating claustrophobic scenes from a minimum of sets and a practically nonexistant budget.
		The chiaroscuro lighting pattern that would characterize the entire film noir canon was perhaps never better used than here, and it's no shock to learn that Tourneur took cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca with him when he made the switch to film noir.
		Drawn to them by childhood stories of "cat people," women who turn into panthers and kill men, she has long been frightened that she might be one of the witches in question.
	goatdog.com /moviePage.php?movieID=456 (727 words)

	Cat People
		The 1982 film by Paul Schrader explores the themes of incense, and the inner animal nature of man in an erotic, surreal manner.
		Where the 1942 film had to be more circumspect than this version the core of the story still revolves around the human interaction between morality and sexual desire.
		In Cat People he leans a bit too heavily on the new era of special effects that were just then exploding.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /cat.htm (1087 words)

	Feminism in film and the cat people
		The focus of “The Cat People” is on the fear of a sexually aggressive female, in the guise of a cat, unrepressed and on the prowl.
		These films came into being and were financially successful because they temporarily relieve the fears aroused by a recognition of social and political conflicts; they help to discourage any action that might otherwise follow upon the pressure generated by living with these conflicts.
		Shrader’s film relieves the patriarchy’s fear of women, who were continuing to make social and political advances during the early 1980s, by reversing the female threat and replacing it with a male one.
	sc.essortment.com /feminismtheca_rnsf.htm (2398 words)

	Cat People
		Hitchcock would be the filmmaker most profoundly influenced by this: prior to Cat People, and prior to the Lewton films in general, the sexual nature of his films is mostly sub-rosa.
		Tourneur has filmed the panther from behind a grouping of furniture, filmed in silhouette, and the tracking of the camera as it follows the panther creates a strobing effect.
		The effect of the way this is filmed is to strand the viewer in the dark, with some dreadful thing circling just out of the range of his senses.
	www.tranquility.net /~benedict/catpeople1942.html (990 words)

	Cat People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Cat People are descendants of leopards who mated with human females when the latter were left as a sacrifice.
		Problem is that if the cat folks mate with humans, they transmogrify into convenient kitty form and must then kill and devour something, usually their mates, in order to undergo the reverse metamorphosis back into human form.
		Cat People (1982) is a Paul Schrader remake of a 1942 film about people who are half leopard and half human.
	www.scoopy.com /catpeople.htm (1442 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Cat People (1942), Jacques Tourneur, Simone Simon, Kent Smith, dvd review
		Influential critic James Agee championed the film, and it was a modest hit, inspiring a sequel Curse of the Cat People (1944), and a job for producer Val Lewton for the next couple of years.
		The cat is unseen on the periphery in both scenes, and it's terrifying.
		All nine Lewton horror films are recommended, as well as Curse of the Demon (1958) directed by Tourneur, The Haunting (1963) directed by Robert Wise (who also worked with Lewton), and The Blair Witch Project (1999), which continues Lewton's theory and brings it into the 1990's.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /catpeop.shtml (780 words)

	Cat People (1982)
		Cat People (1942) is one of the great genre classics.
		The monsters in Lewton's films were creatures of imagination and superstition, they were never depicted - all that we saw of the cat people were looming shadows and the rest could have been people's imaginations.
		In the original there was the underlying suggestion that Irena's belief in cat people could have been caused by her fears of sexual consummation.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/catpeople82.htm (798 words)

	For criticism, part one
		"Thus a film necessarily - and this does not mean deliberately - organises itself in a figurative economy that regulates the ensemble of these relations (the morphology of the image, its formal properties, the treatment of motifs) and which it is the task of analysis to discern" (13).
		The limitations of this analysis of the instances of the presence of people in films are those of the cinema it describes.
		Her writing is all about "the use of people in films as ideas, elements in an intellectual argument".
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/shorts/reviews/rev0300/wr1br9a.htm (6258 words)

	CAT scan - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about CAT scan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Quick and noninvasive, CAT scanning is used in medicine as an aid to diagnosis, helping to pinpoint problem areas without the need for exploratory surgery.
		The CAT scanner passes a narrow fan of X-rays through successive ‘slices’ of the suspect body part.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /CAT%20scan (164 words)

	Movie Review - Cat People (1942) - eFilmCritic
		During the early years of Irena’s and Reed’s courtship and marriage, everyone in the film but Irena pooh-poohs the young woman’s belief in the curse of the cat people, but the film itself seems ambiguous about her fears.
		Irena has always felt that cat people act badly from passion, jealousy or evil, and all are brought out by the revelation of Alice’s insider knowledge.
		Although we have seen the real cat, we didn’t see Irena so there is still room to suspect that she is letting the beast out of its cage (we know she has stolen the key) and is somehow controlling its actions.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=8584 (1533 words)

	Cat People / Jacques Tourneur / Val Lewton / Simone Simon / 1942 / Film review / Horror film
		The film which magnificently resuscitated and re-defined the horror genre in Hollywood in the 1940s, Cat People remains a chilling work, its impact heightened by its understated performances and modest resources.
		The noirish cinematography works perfectly for this kind of psychological horror film which, in stark contrast to the horror films of the 1930s, avoids showing explicitly horrific images to scare its audience.
		What most makes this such a great and memorable film are its magnificent set pieces — a bizarre dream sequence, the terrifying scene in the swimming pool, and the dramatic climax in which Irena finally reveals her true nature to her overly friendly psychiatrist.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_Cat_People_rev.html (558 words)

	Cat People (1942)
		Certainly no were-cat is ever seen - much growling is heard and the shadow of something is briefly glimpsed prowling through Kent Smith's office, but that could always be the panther from the zoo to whose cage Simon stole the key.
		The film has dated, certainly few of those raised in the Freddy Krueger generation have the patience to sit through the slow-moving opening and the sometimes awkward acting.
		Cat People (1982) was a remake that disappointingly dispensed with all the Lewtonian psychological ambiguity and features elaborate upfront human-feline transformations and much erotic content, although is not an entirely uninteresting effort.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/catpeople42.htm (753 words)

	Locus Online: Film Book Reviews by Claude Lalumière
		Rushdie treats the story of the film as if it were caged, as if the unfolding story and the story we are led to believe we are told are in conflict, as if, somehow, the film was trying to mask the story instead of revealing it.
		In this context, she also analyses the conflict the film poses between Victorian (and Hollywood) morality and the emancipation of women's desires, sexual and otherwise.
		I first saw Jacques Tourneur's Cat People in a repertory cinema in the early 1990s and was astonished by its frank and sober approach to sexual mores (especially for a 1942 film!) and even more by its deft use of suggestion to create scenes of terror.
	www.locusmag.com /2001/Reviews/Lalumiere06.html (1624 words)

	Metaphilm - Cat People
		Irena believes that she is descended from the “cat women” of her village who, according to legend, take the form of killer panthers when sexually aroused.
		In Britain, “cat people” are nothing more or less than people who like cats, as opposed to “dog people.” It is symptomatic of this movie’s quaintness that its title evokes not a jot of the Gothic.
		Cat People drifts between the darkness of irrational instinct and the light of common sense.
	metaphilm.com /philm.php?id=171_0_2_0 (1645 words)

	Simone Simon 1910 - 2005
		During 1942 she was watched by the FBI as she was dating "double agent" Dusko Popov who worked for the British MI5.
		Before Cat People, she had already starred as the unfaithful wife in Jean Renoir's La Bete Humaine (1939) and went on to appear in Max Ophuls's La Ronde (1950).
		The second was probably her best-known film, a low-budget Jacques Tourneur picture whose shadowy cinematography and power of suggestion brought it classic status in later decades.
	eeweems.com /val_lewton/cast_simone.html (1778 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Cat People (1982)
		The film is a loose remake of the 1942 film of the same name.
		One scene copied verbatim from the original film -- the pool scene -- is out of place here, as it involves a character irrelevant to every scene before and after but implies otherwise.
		Either director Paul Schrader didn't understand what his vision was before he started filming it, or some equally destructive and ignominious artistic failure happened later on in the process.
	www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/cat.people.1982.shtml (298 words)

	Cat People (1942)
		Cat People (1942) is a low-budget horror classic from RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. - the haunting, low-key story of the difficulties of a foreign-born immigrant sketch artist and young bride (Simon) in an unconsummated marriage, especially her victimization and torment by menacing fears of the supernatural and unknown.
		The moody, early 1940s film, with a screenplay by DeWitt Bodeen, was one of the first to make an explicit link between horror and female sexuality, something that has since become a staple of modern-day horror films.
		The camera moves to the right (and also tracks backward) to reveal a dark-haired woman (with a sparkly cat brooch pinned to the left side of her trim suit) who stands on the perimeter of the caged-in area and idly sketches the pacing animal on her large sketchpad.
	www.filmsite.org /catp.html (2261 words)

	Cat People \| Jacques Tourneur 1942
		Cat People fit mieux que son illustre devancier, et son triomphe remit sur pied la RKO en 1941, année très difficile pour la firme.
		Cat People permit à Val Lewton de produire entre 1942 et 1946, toujours avec des budgets très réduits qui lui assuraient une totale liberté de conception et d’exécution, l’un des plus extraordinaires ensembles de films fantastiques du cinéma hollywoodien (d’où se détachent particulièrement le sublime Seventh Victim et Bedlam qui clôt la série).
		Cat People may have lost some of its edge over the years and what remains may be a bit tarnished, but it is infinitely better than Paul Schrader’s 1982 remake.
	www.celtoslavica.de /chiaroscuro/films/catpeople/cat.html (7594 words)

	Cat People (1942) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Trivia: The film was such a hit at the box office, the releases of the next two Lewton films (I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and The Leopard Man (1943)) were delayed.
		Dubrovna tells him of her native Serbia, and the legend of unchristian "cat people" who were driven into the mountains.
		Well, a lot of younger horror fans, for whom the oldest film that they are really familiar with in the genre is something like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) or an even more recent film, might be reluctant to call Cat People a horror film.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0034587 (684 words)

	DVD Review: Cat People (1982)
		The 1982 film Cat People, by Paul Schrader explores the themes of incense, and the inner animal nature of man in an erotic, surreal manner.
		While this is seen by many as a flaw in Cat People it also provides a look at how and when film began to change.
		For Paul Schrader the Cat People theme appears to be the juxtaposition of desire and morality.
	www.cheap-dvds-advisor.com /cat-people.html (1111 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Cat People [1982]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Perhaps Cat People can be seen as the beginnings of Schrader's wilderness years- it is nowhere close to the screenplays of Taxi Driver/Raging Bull or to Schrader's initial films: Blue Collar, Hardcore, American Gigolo.
		Cat People is a twist in the sexual-horror film, it's certainly far from terrible- if you want an erotic exercise in panache, it probably does the business.
		Cat People is OK, Schrader has never made a truly terrible film (though Exorcist IV might be it...)- but this is far from such great films as Affliction, Blue Collar, Light Sleeper & Mishima.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009QNYA (854 words)

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