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Jul 09 '01
Pros: see review
Cons: see review
Summary: Despite being over 60 years old this is still one of the finest horror movies ever made. Produced by Val Lewton, it is a gloriously understated piece, charged with sexual energy which never manifests itself despite the advertising campaign which claimed...
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Feb 18 '00
Pros: cinematography, direction
Cons: characters, lack of special effects
Summary: Val Lewton was born in Russia in 1904, emigrating after the revolution. He worked as an assistant to producer David O. Selznick for some years, then was hired by RKO to make low budget horror films.
Cat People was his first...
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Nov 30 '99
Pros: Fightning psycho horror
Cons: Not in all video stores!
Summary: Cat people is one of Jacques Tourneur's most well known movie out. This movie has been remade, but not nearly with the effect Jacques Tourner's had. Jacques is an auteur in all senses of the word, he created the film type "Psycho Horror" the...
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Jul 25 '99
Pros: everything
Cons: low budget may throw some viewers off
Summary:
Val Lewton had worked all kinds of odd jobs at RKO before being tapped to produce a series of low-budget horror movies. His first assignment was “Cat People” (1942). Lewton was a well-read intellectual and he surmised that people would be more...
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