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	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Cat People
		One of such examples is CAT PEOPLE, 1982 horror by Paul Schrader, film that enjoyed quite popularity at the beginning of the decade only to completely vanish from moviegoer's memory in few years.
		CAT PEOPLE was remake of classic 1942 B-horror, and, as such, it simply had to be inferior piece of work.
		CAT PEOPLE is much slower than most of the other horror films, but Schrader uses this great length to slowly yet methodically build characters and atmosphere.
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	Cat People - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cat People is a 1942 horror film which tells the story of a young Serbian woman, Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon) who is haunted by the myth of the cat people of her village.
		It was followed by a sequel, The Curse of the Cat People, in 1944.
		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) (680 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Cat People
		One of such examples is CAT PEOPLE, 1982 horror by Paul Schrader, film that enjoyed quite popularity at the beginning of the decade only to completely vanish from moviegoer's memory in few years.
		CAT PEOPLE was remake of classic 1942 B-horror, and, as such, it simply had to be inferior piece of work.
		CAT PEOPLE is much slower than most of the other horror films, but Schrader uses this great length to slowly yet methodically build characters and atmosphere.
	all-reviews.com /videos-4/cat-people.htm (882 words)

	Cat People - DVD Movie Central
		Cat People's first exhibition for a preview audience, Lewton was crushed to discover that his meticulously-crafted film was being preceded by a cheerful Disney cartoon about a cute little cat.
		Cat People is generally attributed with having the grand-daddy of all "boo!" moments in horror films.
		Cat People's most sequences, an apprehensive Alice is walking along a dark and lonely sidewalk, fearful that she is being stalked by an as-yet-unseen beast.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/cat_people_curse.htm (2390 words)

	Cat People (1982) - Movie Review
		I've never seen the original 1942 Cat People (I have now -Ed.), but I have a hard time imagining it bears much resemblance to this 1982 remake, courtesy of director Paul Schrader (American Gigolo), writer Alan Ormsby (who wrote Porky's II and four of the Substitute movies), and stars Nastassja Kinski and Malcolm McDowell.
		Bizarre from frame one, the story tells of an ancient race of werewolf-like cat people, doomed to turn into fl leopards (is that the same thing as a panther?) if they mate with humans.
		Cat People is less intent on answering those questions than on showing Kinski, Annette O'Toole, and various other women (and men) naked and/or covered in blood.
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	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.
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	Cat People
		Prior to Cat People, the psychological underpinnings of the horror movie were almost entirely sub-rosa.
		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.
		The park scene is one of the most imitated shock scenes in movies, in which we are privy to the point of view of the monster from time to time, and which is concluded with a sharp noise that sounds like the shriek of a panther.
	www.tranquility.net /~benedict/catpeople1942.html (990 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Cat People / Curse Of The Cat People
		It is the quintessence of the American horror movie, this moment of psychosexual panic: A woman walks alone down an alley (or a country lane, or a wooded path—take your pick).
		In 1942's Cat People, director Jacques Tourneur stages this scene in only a couple of minutes, and the threat is imagined, by both the potential victim (Jane Randolph as Alice) and her stalker (Simone Simon as Irena).
		Curse of the Cat People is the freshman feature for Robert Wise, a survivor of the Citizen Kane debacle that opened the door for Lewton's RKO career.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/cursecatpeople.php (1600 words)

	Cult Movies Movie Online Review Cast Reviews Film Soundtrack DVD Video
		A remake of the beautiful, haunting 1942 Cat People, this version takes off from the same idea: that a woman (Nastassja Kinski), a member of a race of feline humans, will revert to her animalistic self when she has sex.
		Cat People doesn’t really make all this come together, but it’s always interesting to look at, and the dreadful mood lingers.
		In general terms, the basic premise of both original 1942 CAT PEOPLE and the 1982 Paul Schrader remake are the same: an exotic European beauty is given to transforming into a fl panther when sexually aroused.
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	DVD review of Cat People (1942) / Curse of the Cat People, The (Double Feature) - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The movie opens at the zoo, where a young woman, Irena Dubrovna (Simon), is sketching the big cats.
		OK, that in itself is more than a little spooky, except that when Irena appears, very late in the movie I might add, she's wearing a goofy-looking fairy-princess gown that rather diminishes her credibility as a real spirit and reinforces the notion that maybe little Ann is really dreaming all this stuff up.
		I have always found the movie a little too coy and precious to be entirely effective as a fable or a chiller, but there's no doubting that those lingering Lewton touches continue to cast long shadows.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/catpeople1942curseofthecatpeop/17093/3167 (1874 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Cat People (1942), Jacques Tourneur, Simone Simon, Kent Smith, dvd review
		Cat People (1942) was a cheap B-movie made on assignment for very little money at RKO.
		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.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /catpeop.shtml (792 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Cat People (DVD review)
		An old movie theater in one scene is lit with green lights on the outside.
		Irena, who is a virgin, has never turned into a cat before, so she is quite skeptical about this whole cat people idea.
		The ending of the film is quite different than the ending of the original 1942 version of "Cat People." The two films are quite different, except for one scene at a swimming pool with a topless Annette O'Toole ("48 Hours").
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/dvd/catpeople.html (1869 words)

	goatdog's movies - Cat People, 1942
		Cat People is one of the creepiest horror films ever made.
		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.
		After Alice confesses her love to Oliver and Oliver begins to second-guess his devotion to his wife, a series of creepy incidents occurs in which it appears that the cat form of Irena is attempting to murder Alice.
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	CAT PEOPLE (1982) movie review
		People who can turn into animals has got to be the oldest of human fables.
		The big panther is in a cage there and when the cat sees Irina it flips out, roaring and tearing up its cage.
		Joe tries to force the cat out into another cage by using an electric prod but as soon as Joe's within reach.
	www.feoamante.com /Movies/ABC/cat_people.html (892 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.
		Even cleverer is a subtext of explanation offered by psychologist Tom Conway that all but outrightly states that Irena's belief that she is a were-feline could as much be a delusion caused by an extreme fear of sex.
		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)

	Cat People (1942) - DVD - Title C Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		This is still one of the finest horror movies ever made some 60 years after its release.
		Filmed in 1942 by Val Lewton for RKO Cat People succeeds by refusing to give the audience the easy way out by showing them a made up movie monster but rather to let their own imagination fill in the blanks.
		As a result and thanks to some superb imagery and use of camera effects the movie stands the test of time well and still has the capacity to scare the pants off you today.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /dvd-title-c/cat-people-1942 (241 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Cat People (1982)
		Although Cat People's supposed themes about the animal nature of sex and love come off as half-cocked, as a simple tale of forbidden romance the film has a brooding appeal — although a taste for early-'80s pastel-toned art direction and Giorgio Moroder's pulsing synthesizer may be required to enjoy it.
		And any movie in which Ed Begley Jr.'s arm is graphically ripped from his torso has its heart in the right place.
		Cat People: An Intimate Portrait by Paul Schrader (25:21) is a fairly shallow series of snippets from a November 2000 interview with the tight-lipped director during which he never delves into its topics in any depth and essentially reiterates his comments heard on the commentary track.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/c/catpeople82.shtml (538 words)

	Cat People (1942) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He's intrigued by her--it seems to be love at first sight--and is surprised when she invites him into her apartment for a cup of tea.
		While in her apartment, he sees an odd statue of a man on horseback, holding a sword-skewered cat high in the air.
		Dubrovna tells him of her native Serbia, and the legend of unchristian "cat people" who were driven into the mountains.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0034587 (694 words)

	Horror Bob Presents: The Horror Review - Egregious Gurnow's Review of "Cat People" (1942)
		In Cat People, the director establishes a correlation between female sexuality and felines.
		Obviously, such a work would have the viewer leave the film without a resolute answer as to whether the curse of the cat people is an actual threat or merely a Freudian dilemma rooted in the mind of the female lead.
		With this, I find Cat People interesting in its psychological assessment of fear and how it articulately portrays terror in images but cannot advocate the manner in which fear is allocated in the form of fl-or-white characters which permit the status quo to rest easy in their seats throughout the production.
	www.horrorreview.com /old/egcatpeople1942.html (1086 words)

	Cat People
		I've always heard that this remake was vastly inferior to the 1942 original, but as I've never seen the original, I thought this was pretty good.
		She finds herself drawn to the zoo and the big cat cages, but her terrible secret (unknown even to her) comes to light when she falls in love with John Heard, a (surprisingly young and virile) zoo employee.
		A bit slow-moving, but not too slow, it wasn't an entirely fun movie, as it dealt with a somber and somehow tragic subject matter, but it was well made, stylistic, and the cast was great.
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	Cat People News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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		Cinematic brimstone manna for pubescent Cinemax viewers, Paul Schrader's unjustly neglected 1982 remake of "Cat People" leaves the watcher uneasily poised somewhere between needing a wet-nap and a steel-wool...
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	Cat People \| Jacques Tourneur 1942
		Its sober psychological basis is barely shaken by the studio’s insistence on introducing, as a stock horror movie ploy, a shot of a fl panther during one crucial scene.
		But in 1942, American audiences were unduly smug about the "normality" of their own society, and Irena and the psychiatrist were therefore unsettling representations of Old World decadence.
		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)

	eBay - VHS: Cat People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		CAT PEOPLE was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1993.
		Cat People was his first production, and his most famous.
		Cat People plays on the imagination of its viewer rather than offering the easy way out by showing us some made-up monster which was so popular at the time.
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	Cat People (1942) Starring: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway - Three Movie Buffs Review
		The most famous scenes in the movie are when Irena terrorizes Alice.
		As the camera pans the bloody cat tracks change to those of a woman's stiletto heels.
		Due to its small budget the climax of the movie is all done with shadows and sound effects.
	www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=catpeople (619 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Cat People / The Curse of the Cat People (1942-1944)
		The first horror film that Val Lewton produced for RKO in an effort to save the studio from ruin was the classic Cat People, which stands as a model for a subtle kind of implied and psychological horror.
		She eventually confides in him that in her native Serbia there were degenerate devil-worshippers who were able to assume the shape of large cats, and she fears that she bears the taint of their blood.
		One of the strangest combinations is 1944's sequel, The Curse of the Cat People, which sounds like a straight horror but is instead a psychological essay on childhood, with only a few moments of suspense, and one of those is a dream sequence.
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	Movie Review: Cat People / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
		It probably seems pretty tame today, but in 1942 when Cat People first appeared it was a pretty striking departure from the established horror genre.
		At the time horror had become largely associated with what could loosely be described as Universal's "monster" movies – enjoyable films that tended to concentrate on the unsubtle thrills generated by the Wolf Man, Dracula, the Mummy and the Frankenstein Monster, but hardly cerebral excursions into the supernatural.
		Cat People took an equally preposterous idea – that of a woman who would turn into a were-cat – and approached it in a deadly serious manner, using suggestion and shadow, and completely eschewing the actual depiction of the monster.
	www.mountainx.com /movies/c/catpeople.php (380 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Cat People (1982)
		The acting is weak, the soundtrack is this horrendously cheesy synthesizer nonsense, and the writing lacks even a facsimile of authenticity -- so the movie can't even be said to be well-crafted.
		The film is a loose remake of the 1942 film of the same name.
		This remake has no goal at all: it borrows the basic idea, changes the storyline seemingly arbitrarily, and adds visual explicitness and contrivances that sabotage the psychological effect it seems to be going for.
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	Cat People
		The only two times that the cat actually appears were specifically ordered to be re-shot with a panther by the studio, who was worried that the whole thing would be too subtle for target audiences otherwise.
		When "the Cat Woman" (Elizabeth Russell) greets Irena after her wedding as "my sister", her voice is being dubbed in by Simone Simon.
		and their web pages on the movie include information on their laserdisk, an essay on the film, and a video clip from the swimming pool scene.
	www.acm.vt.edu /~yousten/lewton/catpeop.html (575 words)

	Amazon.com: Cat People: Video: Jacques Tourneur,Simone Simon,Kent Smith,Tom Conway,Jane Randolph,Jack Holt,Donald ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In this movie it is mostly used as a reference to sex.
		Two people from different cultures, the American telling his wife she is wrong to hold her beliefs.
		In fact this movie was so popular it inspired a sequel "The Curse of the Cat People" which Tourneur did not directed (Robert Wise did) but starred the same people except for Conway.
	www.amazon.com /Cat-People-Jacques-Tourneur/dp/B00001W0F7 (2003 words)

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