Cat People
She knew strange, fierce pleasures that no other woman could ever feel!
Country
Production
Budget
$134 000
Box office
$4 000 000
Director
Actors
Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt, Henrietta Burnside, Alec Craig, Eddie Dew, Elizabeth Dunne, Dot Farley
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
DeWitt Bodeen
Producer
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Short description
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
What's left behind the scenes
- As the film progressed, there was initially no intention of showing Irena transformed into a beast. When studio supervisor Lou Ostrow demanded that a panther appear in the corresponding scenes, Jacques Tourneur refused to comply, and Ostrow ordered the director to be fired. Val Lewton managed to smooth over the scandal by filming a scene with an attacking panther, but with reduced lighting, and ultimately it was completely impossible to discern the beast among the shadows on the screen.
- The film stayed in theaters for so long that some critics, who had initially lambasted it, watched it again and revised their reviews to be more positive.
- In 1993, the film was added to the U.S. National Film Registry as being of great artistic significance.
- The film's advertising slogan was the phrase "Kiss me – I'll tear you to pieces!"
- This film was the first to introduce the technique of building tension that doesn't lead to a frightening event, but fizzles out. This technique has since become known in Hollywood as a "bus jump scare," as seen in a scene from 'Cat People' where Alice walks down a night street, the audience hears a hissing sound like a cat’s and anticipates a panther attack, but the sound turns out to be the noise of an approaching bus.
- The film's advertising slogan was the phrase "Kiss me – I'll tear you to death!"
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