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Cat People [WS]

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Released: 2002-08-27

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Cat People [WS] DVD Cast & Features Cast:
David Blackwell, JoAnn Dearing, James Deeth, Don Hood, Roger E. Reid, Brett Alexander, The Black Pope, Julie Denney, Arione De Winter, Marisa Folse, Neva Gage, Gregory Gatto, John C. Isbell, Charles Joseph Konya Jr., Stephen Marshal, Terc Martinez, David Ross McCarty, Francine Segal, David Showacre, Danelle Hand, Robert Pavlovich, Harry Hauss, Marco St. John, Ray Wise, Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Annette O'Toole, Ruby Dee, Ed Begley, Jr., Scott Paulin, Frankie R. Faison, Ron Diamond, Lynn Lowry, John Larroquette, Tessa Richarde, Patricia Perkins, Berry Berenson, Fausto Barajas, John H. Fields, Emery Hollier

Director(s): Paul Schrader

Features:
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Cat People: An intimate portrait by Paul Schrader
Feature commentary with director Paul Schrader
On the set with director Paul Schrader
Special makeup effects by Tom Burman
Cat People matte paintings
Filmmaker Robert Wise on the producer of the original "Cat People," Val Lewton
Production notes
Production photographs
Theatrical trailer

Cat People [WS] DVD Details

Video:
Theatre Wide-Screen
Audio:
Dolby Digital Stereo
Language:
English
Subtitles:
Spanish, French

Running Time: 119
Genre: Horror Sci-fi Fantasy
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 025192225420
Product Code: MHV61022254DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1982
Studio: Universal Studios

Cat People [WS] DVD Summary In this loose adaptation of the 1942 horror classic of the same name, a 2001-style opening montage establishes some sort of sacrificial, mystical union between panthers and an ancient tribe of humans.

Flash forward to 1980's New Orleans, where waifish Irina (Natassja Kinski) meets her older brother, Paul (Malcolm McDowell), a minister, for the first time since their animal trainer parents died and she was sent to a series of foster homes.

Paul's Creole housekeeper, Female (Ruby Dee), helps Irina settle into her brother's home, but Paul himself disappears.

Cut to a fleabag motel where a blasé prostitute finds an angry panther instead of a client; after mauling her, the cat is captured by police and a team of zoologists: Oliver (John Heard), Alice (Annette O'Toole), and Joe (Ed Begley Jr.

).

The next day Irina finds herself in the zoo where these scientists work; drawn to the newly captured panther, she befriends Oliver and takes a job in the gift shop.

Shortly after the panther's violence turns deadly, it escapes, and soon Paul turns up spouting an unbelievable story about his family's were-cat heritage and his inevitable sexual union with little Irina.

On the run from her dangerous brother, Irina takes refuge in a sexually frustrated romance with Oliver, afraid of what might happen if she consummates their passion.

Astute viewers will notice that the zoologist characters refer to the film's panthers as leopards; "panther" is actually a generic term for any large cat, especially a black one, but Cat People's panthers are in fact leopards whose black color comes from a recessive trait known as melanism.