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

| Aug 10, 2022

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

In 1982, Paul Schrader seemed a very odd choice to remake Val Lewton's classic 1943 horror movie. The original was a model of restraint and subtlety and the remake, frankly, isn't.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2007

Paul Schrader's hammering, art-porno remake of Jacques Tourneur's deft little thriller.

| Sep 26, 2007

Kinski was essential to the film as conceived, and she's endlessly watchable.

| Sep 26, 2007

The seductively exotic surface of this mythically underpinned fantasy might be offset for some by much graphic gore, but if you can buy the romantic metaphors for the primitivisms of sexual obsession, the film delivers down the line.

| Jun 24, 2006

Cat People is a good movie in an old tradition, a fantasy-horror film that takes itself just seriously enough to work, has just enough fun to be entertaining, [and] contains elements of intrinsic fascination in its magnificent black leopards.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 23, 2004

The late, great Ferdinando Scarfiotti's elaborate set designs imagine New Orleans as a post-feminist kingdom whose traditions are on the brink of destruction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2002

The result has a certain cinematic beauty, and Kinski, in particular, plays her role with an appropriate cat-like presence. Yet alongside the 1942 version (produced by Val Lewton, directed by Jaques Tourneur) it is clear which one is the winner.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2001