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I wanted to go with a classic for this year's October MotM and it just so happens Cat People (1942) is turning 80 this year!  It’s about Irena, a woman exiled from Nazi invaded Serbia, who believes she’ll turn into a wild cat if she’s aroused to passion. The film is directed by Jacques Tourneur with cinematography by Nicholas Musuraca. Just a few years before Cat People Nicholas Musuraca worked on Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), one of the earliest film noirs that also set the style for future noirs. Jacques Tourneur would later direct the classic film noir, Out of the Past. Cat People leans on the film noir style to great effect. Tons of moody lighting and some great use of shadows. While the plot is a bit simplistic, boiling down to a love triangle by the end, it is rich in subtext involving displacement and sexual repression. https://i.imgur.com/FuPommf.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/rWdeqSE.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/PqsSzko.mp4 I think it’s an incredibly cool movie that I hope you all enjoy. If you enjoy this, there's a sequel, Curse of the Cat People and a 1982 remake directed by Paul Schrader. It's available on HBOmax (USA at least) in HD and you can also find it on archive.org.
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I think this film might have the earliest example ever of a fake out jump scare. To be specific the part where she's being tailed and the bus suddenly pulls up and the hiss of the opening doors sounds like a animalistic growl. There might be earlier examples but I've not seen them. Great stuff.
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Oct 4, 2022 04:40
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Watched it recently and I'm going to watch the remake for the October challenge! The original is gorgeous, tragic, and every man in the movie fully deserves to get got by a cat, a monster, or a cat monster.
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Oct 4, 2022 05:01
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DeWitt Bodeen is really good at writing scenes in movies about being outed except ya a cat lady or a satanist.
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Oct 4, 2022 05:12
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Cat People is in my top 10 all time favorite films. I watch it pretty often and I’ll try to revisit it again this month.FreudianSlippers posted:I think this film might have the earliest example ever of a fake out jump scare. To be specific the part where she's being tailed and the bus suddenly pulls up and the hiss of the opening doors sounds like a animalistic growl. It’s definitely considered the first jump scare of this type, to the point where the term “Lewton Bus” was used to refer to jump scares for a long time.
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Oct 4, 2022 06:06
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I loved this movie as a kid. This reminds me to revisit it as an adult.
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Oct 4, 2022 06:15
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I didn't nab a screen grab of it, but there's a great shot where Irena is standing in front of a portrait with cats in the painting and they seem to be looking at her. It's very on the nose but also looks so good
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Oct 4, 2022 16:04
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MacheteZombie posted:I didn't nab a screen grab of it, but there's a great shot where Irena is standing in front of a portrait with cats in the painting and they seem to be looking at her. It's very on the nose but also looks so good I haven't watched this in a minute but the first time I did it struck me as a movie where you could pause it on almost any frame and dissect it for visual information. It's a stunning movie. Jacques Tourneur also made the outstanding horror movie Night of the Demon, as well as the all-time great film noir Out of the Past. I haven't explored the rest of his filmography, but I really need to knock out I Walked With a Zombie.
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Oct 4, 2022 16:12
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Night of the Demon is so dope.
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Oct 4, 2022 16:21
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I really enjoyed this. Visually it's great and the sound effects used during the scenes where people are getting stalked are expertly done and a shining example of how to raise tension. This also has an all-time Bad Movie Psychiatrist. My wife was watching this with me and afterwards she said that the scenes with that guy were the most suspenseful ones in the movie for her because he was such a blatant piece of poo poo.
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Oct 14, 2022 14:12
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He is in the Seventh Victim as well, connecting the two films. He is horrible there too, lmao.
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Oct 14, 2022 18:45
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Xposting from the challenge thread, wanted to rewatch this for this thread and also have it count for a bingo square so I listened to the commentary track on the Criterion blugey muckle mowser posted:28. Cat People (1942)
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Oct 25, 2022 20:59
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I started it up on a whim last week and only saw the first 15 min or so before my poor fried brain demanded video games. But I will say I thought it was shocking how this stranger goes into the single girl’s apartment with no chaperone right after meeting her! scandalous.
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The law is quite explicit. One cannot divorce an insane person.
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