Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Lawbolisted Powerful

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

calvinnme First off major SPOILER warning as I completely (almost) spoil the film.Boy (Kent Smith as Oliver) meets girl (Simone Simon as Irena). Except boy is one of the few men between 20 and 60 who is not in the military, and the girl has bizarre fantasies about being one of the "cat people" - people descended from a group of witches and warlocks in Europe that escaped the sword of King John when he came to cleanse their village of wickedness.Oliver and Irena eventually admit their love, and Oliver proposes marriage. Irena has doubts because of her feelings that there is evil in her, that she is one of the "cat people". Oliver poo poos such nonsense and basically says"Forget that cat people nonsense babe and marry me anyways, it will make no difference." But it does. Irena doesn't want to consummate the marriage. Oliver says no problem he'll wait. Irena goes to see a psychiatrist, Oliver says no problem he'll wait. Irena wrestles with her cat people identity problem until a few months later she tells Oliver she has decided to put the past behind her and be a real wife to him. Not so fast Oliver says. He now loves Alice, a girl at work and he wants a divorce.So Irena, a troubled soul to begin with, has a husband who thinks "Until death do you part" is just a saying people kick around at weddings and has completely overestimated his patience, while Alice, a woman who has said she was Irena's friend has been that shoulder Oliver can cry on at work until she steals his heart. Also, the psychiatrist has ulterior motives too as Tom Conway rips a page from his brother George Sanders' playbook.Last line of the film - Oliver saying "She never lied to us". Yep, but ALL of you - the doctor, Oliver, Alice - essentially lied to HER. I'd like to turn into a big cat and eat the three of them if I were in Irena's circumstances.Don't think I don't love this film - I do. It uses atmosphere and what you don't see where the 82 version just used cheesy sex scenes and lots of gore.

Hitchcoc We never know how much threat there is because everything is behind a sort of curtain. The whole cat thing is there and we are made privy to it through different "cat" events (like a caged bird dying of fright). The two women who revolve around the male lead are at odds but no one is accepting the possibility that there may be some validity to the thoughts. The best scene in the movie is in the swimming pool complex. We hear growls; we see evidence. But where is it visually. It's just as terrifying with virtually no visible threat. Tourneur lets our imaginations take the implications and create the threat. Simone Simon is the best cat woman ever.

Johan Louwet When the movie was finished I was sure I had seen a similar movie many years ago. Now I have found out that it was the remake of this movie from 1982 which I consider inferior to this great movie. Not only is the horror much more suggestion and psychological while the remake it was quite explicit, everything else was better than the remake too. The cast is pretty small, with 3 protagonists 4 if we also include the psychiatrist. All of these roles were well acted and well developed. I really loved the back story/legend of the cat people and Simone Simon's character struggle with what she was. She definitely tried to fit in but couldn't help fighting her fate. The relationships and love triangle was done wonderfully and believable, great chemistry between the 3 leads. The ending was pretty clever.

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.