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Cat People ***½
USA: Paul Schrader, 1982 This glossy, trippy (and loose) remake of Jacques Tourneur's Cat People (1942) is a frustrating affair, representing a meeting of wonderfully disturbing ideas and images and some rather dull scripting and acting. While Malcolm McDowell and Nastassja Kinski are excellent as the brother and sister who have the unfortunate habit of turning into leopards when they have sex (McDowell in particular is genuinely unsettling), the rest of the cast range from bland to incompetent, and while the cinematography is consistently superb, making great use of matte paintings and Inferno-style lighting effects, Alan Ormsby's script leaves a lot to be desired, cooking up a fairly tedious love story between Kinski and John Heard, as well as a zoo backdrop, against which much of the film is set, which is drab and corny. IMDB reference
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Welcome to the movie checklist!
This section is an archive listing every movie I've seen from January 1 2005 onwards. Films I have already seen are included and will be marked with a (*), but probably won't be reviewed except under special circumstances. I will be including a rating for each film (in stars, out of 5), and hope to be able to include a brief 1-2 paragraph review of each film, although due to time constraints that won't always be possible.
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