The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
Country: US
Technical: bw 70m
Director: Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch
Cast: Kent Smith, Simone Simon, Jane Randolph
Synopsis:
The daughter of Alice and Oliver Reed from Cat People is a withdrawn child visited by the ghost of Irena, the cat woman of that earlier film.
Review:
This somewhat unmemorable and unrelated sequel to Cat People is so subtle in the Val Lewton manner that it is not even sure what it is getting at itself: is the child's fantasy world exactly that, or not? Is it meant to be cosy or menacing? One star for being an ambiguous Hollywood 'horror' movie, certainly not for the dialogue.
Country: US
Technical: bw 70m
Director: Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch
Cast: Kent Smith, Simone Simon, Jane Randolph
Synopsis:
The daughter of Alice and Oliver Reed from Cat People is a withdrawn child visited by the ghost of Irena, the cat woman of that earlier film.
Review:
This somewhat unmemorable and unrelated sequel to Cat People is so subtle in the Val Lewton manner that it is not even sure what it is getting at itself: is the child's fantasy world exactly that, or not? Is it meant to be cosy or menacing? One star for being an ambiguous Hollywood 'horror' movie, certainly not for the dialogue.
Country: US
Technical: bw 70m
Director: Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch
Cast: Kent Smith, Simone Simon, Jane Randolph
Synopsis:
The daughter of Alice and Oliver Reed from Cat People is a withdrawn child visited by the ghost of Irena, the cat woman of that earlier film.
Review:
This somewhat unmemorable and unrelated sequel to Cat People is so subtle in the Val Lewton manner that it is not even sure what it is getting at itself: is the child's fantasy world exactly that, or not? Is it meant to be cosy or menacing? One star for being an ambiguous Hollywood 'horror' movie, certainly not for the dialogue.