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cat people (1942)

Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon), is a Serbian fashion artist living in New York. She meets and marries Oliver Reed (Kent Smith). But from the off their marriage suffers as she believes she is a victim of an ancient curse that will cause her to turn into a big cat if she has any great emotions like love or jealousy. The couple try to work it out and she even goes to a psychiatrist, but Irena becomes jealous when Oliver is drawn to a female work colleague Alice (Jane Randolph) and confides in her. Alice then starts to notice she is being followed, and finds her clothes shreded, as if by a cat!
A fine example of an intelligent, psycholgical and suspenceful horror, where less is more, and shadows provide our only glimpses of the creature.

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