I don’t typically like older movies (black and white). This was enjoyable, the tension was really well done and the acting is beautiful.

Well directed, it maintains the tension, that use of shadows, that suggest rather than show

Gorgeous black and white horror film! Well-written story with fascinating characters, especially Irena. I love the backstory. I love how realistic the characters are, just the right amount, no overdoing or super dramatic. Very effective use of light and shadows. I enjoyed this one. Irena deserves better!

Really strange, not very good. The lead performances were painful to watch.

This movie uses your imagination rather than visual and it leads to some pretty scary results. Good movie that makes your mind work with the help of sounds and innuendo

I was incredibly excited to finally sit down and watch Cat People, A 1940s mystery movie from RKO Radio Pictures with a horror edge sounded exactly up my street but as you can probably tell by that intro, I was little disappointed. I still liked this film but I felt it had some issues that most people don’t want to address. I am fully willing to admit that my disappointment may have to do with the fact that this wasn’t as great a Halloween movie as I had hoped. It focuses on the mystery part of the plot for way too long, which is kinda strange because the audience knows that Irena is a cat person straight away and the movie never confirms this to the cast until the very end of the movie. The final few scenes are what I was expecting going in, it’s strange, it’s camp and a women turns into a panther. The rest of the movie tends to drag however. Your millage may vary, it’s certainly not a bad film, just not great.

my reading: Irene is asexual