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Cat People is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, and Annette O'Toole. It is a remake of the 1942 RKO Radio Pictures film of the same name. Giorgio Moroder composed the film's score (the second Schrader film to be scored by Moroder, after American Gigolo ...
- $12.5 million
- Giorgio Moroder
- April 2, 1982
- Charles W. Fries
Apr 2, 1982 · Cat People: Directed by Paul Schrader. With Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Annette O'Toole. A woman who was orphaned from a young age finally reunites with her older brother.
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This is the stuff of audacious myth, combining the perverse, the glorious, and the ridiculous. The movies were invented to tell such stories. Paul Schrader's "Cat People" moves boldly between a slice-of-life in present-day New Orleans and the windswept deserts where the Cat People were engendered, and his movie creates a mood of doom, predestination, forbidden passion, and, to be sure, a ...
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Oct 23, 2018 Full Review Yardena Arar Associated Press Cat People, director Paul Schrader's remake of a 1942 B-movie, combines explicit sex, graphic violence, special effects and the supernatural ...
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- Nastassja Kinski
Dec 25, 2022 · Published Dec 25, 2022. Far from purrfect, but still scratches a unique itch. To experience the strange yet sensual 1982 Paul Schrader film Cat People is to be given an illuminating glimpse into ...
- Chase Hutchinson
- Movie Reviews Editor
Nov 30, 2022 · From Lucy Beltrami comes a review of director Jacques Tourneur, screenwriter DeWitt Bodeen and producer Val Lewton's atmeowspheric American horror classic from 1942, Cat People, as well as a review of Paul Schrader's 1982 remake of the same name. Following their showing at film collective Static Vision's Metamorphoses festival in October.
Mar 4, 2014 · Ostensibly a remake of the 1942 classic by the same name, Paul Schrader's 1982 Cat People is a cat of a different species entirely. At the time, it was accused of being garish and gory and literal in its exploration of sexuality as an animal impulse, in contrast to the shadowy psychological suggestions of the Jacques Tourneur-directed original.
