Cat People is Schrader’s most overtly carnal picture, using horror to explore repression, intimacy and desire.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jun 24, 2024

Just like the old school gangster films that opened with empty warnings about the fact that crime doesn’t pay, the narrative limits do little to discount the expression of liberated and violent feminine desire.

| Jun 6, 2024

Very much a product of its time, it still holds up nicely as a solid horror thriller. Not only does (it) drip with atmosphere -- much of it provided by the spooky, well-shot New Orleans setting -- but it boasts a strong cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2023

…the divisions between us run red in Paul Schrader’s dark, almost demented vision of embryonic good and evil…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2023

Paul Schrader makes this movie his own and I found it to be intoxicating, strange, and at times horrific- a reimagining served with a side of mysticism that is certainly never dull.

| Oct 31, 2022

... a wildly colorful, sexy, and very modern mix of human desire and animal passions.

| Oct 29, 2022

A muddled, ill conceived, coldly cynical movie that, distasteful enough for any number of reasons, may be the most graphic, vicious piece of backlash against feminism to emerge from Hollywood.

| Sep 10, 2022

The superb 1942 Cat People managed to provide plenty of food for thought. Writer-director Paul Schrader's 1982 remake, on the other hand, has little more on its mind than kink.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 5, 2022

Dripping in 80s psychosexual atmosphere, this doesn’t hold up outside of its era, but still offers some nice imagery and a solid soundtrack.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 2, 2022

With a unique blend of mysticism, eroticism and tension, this remake is both engrossing and terrifying in an off-beat way.

| Aug 10, 2022

The Cat People is worth seeing, provided you're not prudish or particularly squeamish. It certainly is a failure, but an interesting on

| Jul 28, 2022

... at least in Kinski you can see why Schrader thought Cat People might work.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 5, 2022

Those who prefer their cinematic fantasies to be of the decidedly unshackled variety (so to speak) will always be able to embrace the vision by Schrader, that most tortured of cinematic romantics, that captures amour at its most plus fou.

| Apr 24, 2022

Aggressively-directed and looks haunting, but so unpleasant in its underlying worldview...

| Mar 21, 2022

Mysticism and animal sexuality mark Schrader's baroque experiment in arthouse style and commercial sensibilities, a remake that takes everything inward and psychological about the 1942 original and leaves it splayed onto the screen.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 17, 2022

Falls into the category of works that should not have been remade - or, at least, it should not have bothered to use the original screenplay as a starting place.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Aug 31, 2020

The development of the plot is irregular and faulty... The anxiety of the female protagonist is not quite believable. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 23, 2019

Schrader takes himself very seriously, but after "Cat People," there's no reason the public should perceive him as anything greater than an exploitation director with delusions of grandeur.

| Oct 23, 2018

Cat People, director Paul Schrader's remake of a 1942 B-movie, combines explicit sex, graphic violence, special effects and the supernatural and somehow falls flat.

| Oct 23, 2018

Cat People does manage to exhibit a few moments of genius filmmaking with an intoxicating and almost dreamlike atmosphere that ultimately makes it a memorable- albeit uneven- exploration of obsession, repressed sexual desires and death.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2016