The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

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Drama Horror Mystery

6.9 / 10

This mostly unrelated sequel to Cat People (1942) has Amy, the young daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed. Amy is a very imaginative child who has trouble differentiating fantasy from reality, and has no friends her own age as a result. She makes an imaginary friend though, her father's dead first wife Irena. At about the same time, she befriends Julia Farren, an aging reclusive actress who is alienated from her own daughter Barbara.

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emeraldvenus

Love this movie and first watched it as a child and many times over the years. Does anyone know if the beautiful old house in the movie where the old woman and her daughter lived, still exists and where is the house located? - @Tuesday, October 17, 2017 9:44 PM

Peter Sharp

Have loved this film ever since I first saw it in 1981. It rarely fails to get the tears rolling down my cheeks! With help from the British Film Institute back in 1981 I was provided with an address for Simone Simon, who was by then very elderly. I wrote to her and many months later she sent me an autographed photo which I still treasure. - @Sunday, April 30, 2017 9:53 PM

Jack Grattan

This is one of my personal favorites of the entire Val Lewton canon. This moody, bittersweet fairytale is sadly undervalued. I have seen Gunther Von Fritsch's name pop up on those between feature shorts that they run on TCM. As usual, the real superstar here is seminal noir cinematographer Nick Musuraca, who shot most of the Lewton films. He has never been better. - @Saturday, September 6, 2014 8:26 AM

dravenuk

I actually like this better than Cat People (which is still fab). I just love the whole dark fairytale vibe to it. It has atmosphere and a lovely performance from young Anne Carter. - @Monday, June 9, 2014 7:18 PM

Ranch Mubay

Love this film. - @Thursday, May 1, 2014 4:37 AM

Ruby Doomsday

Is it weird that I consider Curse a Christmas movie... and one I have to watch every year with The Grinch (Chuck Jones' version of course!) Charlie Brown, and all those other Christmas classics? I'm commenting on Christmas Eve, by the way. First time I ever saw it, I was a little kid and I was really sick... I stayed home from a Christmas party (I was an outcast anyway) and this came on TV. I drifted in and out of sleep to the story of another sensitive loner little girl. It effected me so viscerally I spent years trying to find someone who knew of it, but I didn't know its (stupid) title, so I had to go on description alone. Some part of me wondered if I hadn't hallucinated the whole thing. Many years later I saw Cat People and the only connection I made was that the cat lady had the same name as Amy's playmate in the other movie I had seen. I was finally able to figure out from the credits how to spell Irena and promptly plugged it, along with some other search terms, into Google... and only then did I find that the movie I'd been searching for for years was a sequel to the one I'd just watched. I mean... the two films just could not have been more different. Anyway, they've made a loose remake of Cat People... I'd kind of like to see a revisiting of the ideas in Curse, but perhaps away from the ties of Cat People. I hear a lot of people were disappointed in Curse because they expected something tonally similar to the genuinely spooky and exciting Cat People. I love both films, but I must say I like Curse a teeny weeny bit more... it's just got this serenity to it, and while it's less tense, it's more psychologically interesting. They're both AMAZING though, and it's a shame they have to be compared when all they really have in common is their titles and a couple of characters who really coulda been anyone. Anyway, sorry I got wordy. Thanks for the insight on this wonderful film, and keep up the good work. - @Wednesday, December 25, 2013 11:07 AM

OrangeSauropod

"Cat People" & its sequel are two of the most outrageously-underrated movies ever made. Unfortunately, the dopey titles (which Lewton himself was none too fond of) tend to discourage people from taking them seriously. - @Wednesday, October 9, 2013 10:18 AM