Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

lasttimeisaw Shot on a shoestring budget, Jacques Tourneur's CAT PEOPLE is an early specimen epitomizes the "less is more" suspense in the horror genre. Irene Dubrovna (Simon), a Serbian immigrant now working as a sketch designer in NYC, meets cute with a marine engineer Oliver Reed (Smith). But Irene is bedeviled by the urban legend of her provenance that she is a descendant of cat people, will turn into ferocious feline critter when she is sexually aroused, or as the story goes, gets overcome by jealousy or anger. Oliver isn't deterred by the obstacle, although he barely believes it, they tie the knot and Oliver promises he will give all the time she wants before they consummate their marriage, also introduces her to the psychiatrist Dr. Judd (Conway) when she voluntarily seeks resource to professional help. But, Oliver is not as perfect as he believes, an exemplar of America's good old boy, he literally admits he has never been "unhappy" before until this marriage is becalmed without any (sexual) progress and his promise turns paper-thin, when his colleague-and-best-friend Alice Moore (Randolph) blows the lid of her affection, why on earth she has been curbing her feelings for so long? A clunky plot device to instigate the downturn of Oliver and Irene's platonic marriage. Tourneur and screenwriter DeWitt Bodeen cunningly scheme suspenseful set pieces thence, ostensibly, Alice becomes the third wheel and must be disposed of, the subsequent two occurrences are the film's money shots, one would eventually coin the term "Lewton Bus", which signifies the situation where heightened tension is evaporated by a rather unexpected happenstance; another occurs in a natatorium, which seems Alice is doomed in the flurry of frenzied editing and striking images, in neither case, there is no clear sight of the human-turned- creature, but we are on the edge of our seats. So after Alice survives both murderous attempts, it dawns to audience that her character is not going to be a supposed casualty because now she represents the right woman for a honest-to- goodness Oliver, it is Irene, a continent immigrant who is wide-eyed enough to be inveigled into a false promise of American dream, must take her bow now, all because she is not willing to put out, her exotic charm fades, her mythic belief becomes threats, and after finally she prances on an imbecile who has too much self-regard to contain, the film ends in a slipshod scramble, the film's running time clocks in a mere 73 minutes, and finally, we are allowed with several glimpses of the assailing panther (along with some animation and great play of shades), money well spent! French actress Simone Simon leavens her iconic role with wondrous glamour and fondness in addition to her very feline features, while the rest of the movie's meager cast is borderline on autopilot. By today's yardstick, CAT PEOPLE is a far cry from a horror on its scale of scariness, but as a forebear of the genre, at the very least, it inculcates how to make good use of the ilk's often limited resource to set up the atmospheric ballast, that's a merit cannot be gainsaid.

GL84 After meeting a striking artist, a man's growing romance with her brings out her fears of turning into a ravenous cat-creature and tries to quell her fears as a series of murders around town sheds light on her story and forces him into a dangerous situation to control her.Overall this one wasn't all that bad but did have a few problems with it. One of the biggest facets against this is the absolutely dull, dreary pace her that doesn't offer a whole lot here. Building up their growing romance and how her superstitions are continually interfering with everything do makes for a really bland time by keeping the story of her beliefs too wrapped up in nonsense most of the time. The folklore tells of cats as being of a great good to their village, yet here the fear of them doesn't see that well-developed beyond her rabid devotions and beliefs which fuels this one and very little of this makes for a scary time without giving this a really grand feeling here. All of this instead makes for a somewhat talkative and really restrained time here by taking of a lot of the time and leaving very little of it for action scenes here. Still, what really ends up helping this one is this build-up to the psychological problems of the girl which is where this one gets the strength, as this one manages to accomplish the incredibly tricky feat of keeping nearly everything hidden away yet coming up with a truly enjoyable and entertaining offering which is what's accomplished here. By delving deep into the storyline here and how her convictions and worries re for the most part mostly in her head, there's a great deal of care done in here about the different means in which they're manifesting yet aren't anywhere near the level of effectiveness her when it comes to the film's stalking scene to generate that kind of impact here. Utilizing the legendary park sequence where an unseen figure chases someone through the park's dark walkways is a fine example while also bringing up the start of several other positives in the other stalking scenes. The other great scene here is the ambush in the swimming pool of a hotel, letting the shadows and darkness come off quite well while the aftermath damage to the leftover clothing is impressive as well in furthering the whole affair, while a really tense encounter at work where they find themselves trapped inside the room only to confront a vicious panther in there with them and the finale where the cat launches the final attack here against the friends with the big sequence in the hotel room attacking the friends before getting to the fine finale in the park for a nice conclusion here. These here make this one quite enjoyable and entertaining.Today's Rating/PG: Mild Violence and mild sexual discussions.

SnoopyStyle While at the Central Park Zoo, mysterious Serbian fashionista Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon) catches the eye of Oliver Reed. She tells them of the legend of King John who freed the people from the Mameluks. John found some had been corrupted to worship Satan. He killed them all except for the ones who escaped into the mountains. Later, Irena and Oliver get married but her belief comes between them. She believes that an ancient family curse turns her into a panther when she gets aroused. Oliver sends her to psychiatrist Dr. Louis Judd.This movie burns a little too slowly. The acting is pretty stiff. The movie uses shadows and sounds to do most of the horror. There are some very effective scenes. The swimming pool is the highlight of the movie. The movie has a great idea of sexual animalism but it's an idea that really can't be filmed at that time. It's about the denial of the sexual instincts. This movie probably pushed the boundaries a little bit. It's a movie of its time.

gretz-569-323863 Warning to you young people out there who say this movie is "boring": It is true that there's no blood. There's no on-screen killing, no teenage girls take their clothes off, and no chainsaws are involved.What Cat People does have, though, is understated suspense, a great '40s vibe, and a subtext about sexual arousal that is apparently lost on the current generation. (And a super-cute Siamese kitten!) Now, don't get me wrong: Cat People, for all its greatness, is still a B-movie, and the acting is wooden and the plot a bit suspect. Even in a courtroom, and even in the 1940s, "you may now kiss the bride" was part of the marriage ceremony. Did Oliver really NEVER try to kiss Irina before their wedding night? C'mon.But those are minor concerns, and they only occur to you if you're a movie critic (as we all are, at least for a moment, here), or if you've seen the movie 10 or 20 times, as I have.The swimming pool scene and the scene with the bus ("bus"becoming a cameraman's term for that kind of shot) are just classic. You don't want to miss them.