Cat People
Paul Schrader, the director of American Gigolo, brought a similar kind of sexual chic to this explicit horror movie. 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. Arriving to meet her brother (Malcolm McDowell) in New Orleans, she finds herself disturbed by his sexual presence. A zoo curator (John Heard) becomes fascinated by her, but he will discover that her kittenish ways are just the tip of the claw. Schrader dresses the story up in a stylish, glossy production, keyed on Kinski's green-eyed, thick-lipped beauty; it's hard to think of another actress in 1982 who could so immediately suggest a cat walking on two legs. Luckily Kinski had a European attitude toward her body, because this film has plenty of poster-art nudity. There's also lots of gore and some wacky flashbacks to the ancient tribe of cat people, who hold rituals in an orange desert while Giorgio Moroder's music plays. Cat People doesn't really make all this come together, but it's always interesting to look at, and the dreadful mood lingers. --Robert Horton
- R (Restricted)
- Year:
- 1942
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She knew strange, fierce pleasures that no other woman could ever feel!
The exciting story of a woman who kills the thing she loves!
A Kiss Could Change Her Into A Monstrous Fang-and-Claw Killer!
She Was Marked With The Curse Of Those Who Slink And Court And Kill By Night!
To Kiss Her Meant Death By Her Own Fangs And Claws!
Kiss me and I'll claw you to death!
She was one of the dreaded "Cat People" – doomed to slink and prowl and court by night... fearing always that a lover's kiss might change her into a snarling, clawing KILLER!
The most terrifying menace of them all!
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