A weird little chiller called Cat People... is calculated to frighten you out of your wits and make you think twice before trusting anyone who arouses a feline's instinctive dislike.

| Dec 30, 2020

Simone makes her way through his combination of phantasy and reality, and comes off creditably in a part that calls for emotional repression.

| Dec 30, 2020

Photography and settings are effective, and the naturalness of the dialog issuing from such a murk of the fantastic is very impressive.

| Dec 30, 2020

This RKO production is a great example of Hollywood's waste of precious lime and valuable material.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 30, 2020

Cat People, per all advance heraldings, is supposed to be some punkins as a thriller. But for my money, whatever that may amount to, it isn't a breeze let alone a shiver.

| Dec 30, 2020

I do like a film that opens with a mission statement, and... Cat People starts thus: "Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness."

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2016

This is a weird drama of thrill-chill caliber.

| Mar 26, 2009

Cat People wasn't frightening like a slasher movie, using shocks and gore, but frightening in an eerie, mysterious way that was hard to define; the screen harbored unseen threats.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 26, 2007

More a film about unreasoning fear than the supernatural, this work demonstrates what a filmmaker can accomplish when he substitutes taste and intelligence for special effects.

| Sep 26, 2007

First in the wondrous series of B movies in which Val Lewton elaborated his principle of horrors imagined rather than seen, with a superbly judged performance from Simon.

Full Review | Jun 24, 2006

Ladies who have such temptations -- in straight horror pictures, at least -- should exercise their digits a bit more freely than does Simone Simon in this film.

| Mar 25, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2002

No mere creature feature, this 1940s classic offers more subtle chills.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2000