The Curse of the Cat People

Flicks with The Film Snob

Dec 09 2020 | 00:03:11

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Show Notes

A lonely little girl is visited by the ghost of her father’s first wife, in a drama about childhood imagination that was marketed as a horror film. The old RKO studio in Hollywood had a knack for slapping silly titles on producer Val Lewton’s sensitive low-budget films. With 1944’s The Curse of the Cat People, the studio attempted to make audiences believe that it was a sequel to Lewton’s hit 1942 horror film Cat People, but there are no curses and no cats, just the return of some characters from that film, in what is not at all a horror…

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