The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

Directed by

Gunther von Fritsch, Robert Wise

Genre

fantasy film, horror film, children's film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 148 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A lonely young girl becomes friends with a ghostly woman. The spirit is the first wife of her father, who had a connection to cats.

gentlemelancholicdreamlikeeerieslow-burnatmosphericpoignantunsettlingwhimsical

What happens

The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 American psychological supernatural thriller film directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, produced by Val Lewton, and starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, and Ann Carter. It tells a story about a young girl who befriends the ghost of her father's deceased first wife, a Serbian fashion designer who descended from a race of people who could transform into cats. The film, which marks Wise's first directing credit, is a sequel to Cat People (1942) and shares characters with the first film. The plot is only tangentially related to the original, though. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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