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Cat Girl (1957)

Cat Girl poster
Directed by
Alfred Shaughnessy
Genre
horror film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 16m
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 22 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman believes she is possessed by the spirit of a black cat and feels compelled to kill. She struggles with her violent urges as those around her grow suspicious.

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What happens

The Cat Girl is a 1957 horror film directed by Alfred Shaughnessy and starring Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, and Kay Callard. It was produced by Herbert Smith and Lou Rusoff. The film was an unofficial remake of Val Lewton's Cat People (1942). This was the first of two cat-related films starring Barbara Shelley, the other being the British Hammer film The Shadow of the Cat (1961). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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