Cat People [HD DVD]

Cat People [HD DVD]
by Paul Schrader

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Actor: Annette O'Toole, John Heard, Malcolm McDowell, Nastassja Kinski, Ruby Dee
Director: Paul Schrader
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios

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Movie Review: Well done remake of a horror classic!
Summary: 4 Stars

beautiful virgin Irena (Natassia Kinski) has just arrived in New Orleans to see her brother Paul (Malcom Mcdowell) but she doesn't realize is that murders has been occuring over the past weeks due to a large cat on the loose. It seems she has fallen in love with a zookeeper named Oliver (John Heard) but it seems that she and her brother are actually part of a ancient race of cat people who resemble human beings but can only mate with other Cat-People otherwise when with normal human beings they transform into monstrous black Leopards with an urge to kill.

Steamy and bloody remake of the 1942 horror classic of the same name from director Paul Schrader. Although it's different from it's original source material as it uses a metaphor on sexual awakenings with a European horror feel to it and also about incestous desire. The film co-stars Ed Begley Jr and Annette O'Toole, it's an erotic and sometimes gory reimagining with a terrific score from Giorgio Moroder and a quality song from David Bowie. It's also produced by Jerry Bruckheimer before he made his company that he is now famous for, i must say this version does have plenty of nudity with graphic violence and nifty make-up effects by Tom Burman("Halloween 3" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978"), it's still a fun remake but inferior to the original.

This DVD contains a wonderful DVD transfer on the picture and quality sound with good extras like audio commentary, interviews, featurettes, still gallery, production notes and trailer.

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Nastassia Kinski stars as Irena, a beautiful young woman on the bridge of sexuality; she discovers love for the first time only to find that the explosive experience brings with it tragic consequences. The tremendous passion of this girl's first romantic love is so strong, however, it bypasses the chaos around her - including her brother's (Malcolm McDowell) extraordinary demands - as it pushes her on to her own bizarre destiny. With a style as timeless as myth, Cat People is an erotic fantasy of the passion and terror that surround this girl's first love. Desire.passion.blood, her lust transforms her into one of the Cat People.

Paul Schrader, the director of American Gigolo, brought a similar kind of sexual chic to this explicit horror movie. A remake of the beautiful, haunting 1942 Cat People, this version takes off from the same idea: that a woman (Nastassja Kinski), a member of a race of feline humans, will revert to her animalistic self when she has sex. Arriving to meet her brother (Malcolm McDowell) in New Orleans, she finds herself disturbed by his sexual presence. A zoo curator (John Heard) becomes fascinated by her, but he will discover that her kittenish ways are just the tip of the claw. Schrader dresses the story up in a stylish, glossy production, keyed on Kinski's green-eyed, thick-lipped beauty; it's hard to think of another actress in 1982 who could so immediately suggest a cat walking on two legs. Luckily Kinski had a European attitude toward her body, because this film has plenty of poster-art nudity. There's also lots of gore and some wacky flashbacks to the ancient tribe of cat people, who hold rituals in an orange desert while Giorgio Moroder's music plays. Cat People doesn't really make all this come together, but it's always interesting to look at, and the dreadful mood lingers. --Robert Horton

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