CAT PEOPLE (1942)

Oct 31
Fri 4:15, 7:45pm
Dir. Jacques Tourneur - 1942 - 73m - Valid for punch cards
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HERE'S A GOTH INFUSED DOUBLE FEATURE WITH THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE! (2 MOVIES FOR THE PRICE OF JUST ONE - SEE ONE OR BOTH FOR THE SAME PRICE!). TWO 1940'S LEGENDARY SPOOKY FLICKS!
ADDED BONUS! Local published author & film critic Naser Mojtahed to give a brief introduction to the film!
The first of the horror films producer Val Lewton made for RKO Pictures redefined the genre by leaving its most frightening terrors to its audience’s imagination. Simone Simon stars as a Serbian émigré in Manhattan who believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves (Kent Smith) will turn her into a feline predator. Lewton, a consummate producer-auteur who oversaw every aspect of his projects, found an ideal director in Jacques Tourneur, a chiaroscuro stylist adept at keeping viewers off-kilter with startling compositions and psychological innuendo. Together, they eschewed the canned effects of earlier monster movies in favor of shocking with subtle shadows and creative audio cues. One of the studio’s most successful movies of the 1940s, Cat People raised the creature feature to new heights of sophistication and mystery.
"It's psychological horror at its finest: timelessly terrifying and absolutely purr-fect." - Jamie Russell, Total Film
"The scariest American horror movie of the 1940s." - Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy
"Val Lewton's most brilliant and subtly sexual horror films ever made."- Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed