Cat People
SHE WAS MARKED WITH THE CURSE OF THOSE WHO SLINK AND COURT AND KILL BY NIGHT!
Cat People (1942)
Timing:
1:13 (73 min)
6.898/10
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6.746/10
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2393
7.2/10
28000
28000
Country
Production
Genre
Mystery, Horror, Romance
Budget
$134 000
Revenue
$4 000 000
Director
Actors
Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt, Henrietta Burnside, Alec Craig, Eddie Dew, Elizabeth Dunne, Dot Farley
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
DeWitt Bodeen
Producer
Operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Short description
Serbian fashion designer Irena Dubrovna and American marine engineer Oliver Reed meet in Central Park, fall in love, and marry after a brief courtship; but Irena won't consummate the union for fear that she will turn into a panther compelled to kill her lover, pursuant to a belief harbored by her home village.
What's left behind the scenes
- As the film progressed, there was initially no intention of showing Irena transformed into a beast. When studio supervisor Lou Ostrow demanded that a panther appear in the corresponding scenes, Jacques Tourneur refused to comply, and Ostrow ordered the director to be fired. Val Lewton managed to smooth over the scandal by filming a scene with an attacking panther, but with reduced lighting, and ultimately it was completely impossible to discern the beast among the shadows on the screen.
- The film stayed in theaters for so long that some critics, who had initially lambasted it, watched it again and revised their reviews to be more positive.
- In 1993, the film was added to the U.S. National Film Registry as being of great artistic significance.
- The film's advertising slogan was the phrase "Kiss me – I'll tear you to pieces!"
- This film was the first to introduce the technique of building tension that doesn't lead to a frightening event, but fizzles out. This technique has since become known in Hollywood as a "bus jump scare," as seen in a scene from 'Cat People' where Alice walks down a night street, the audience hears a hissing sound like a cat’s and anticipates a panther attack, but the sound turns out to be the noise of an approaching bus.
- The film's advertising slogan was the phrase "Kiss me – I'll tear you to death!"
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