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4.4 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Synopsis An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together. Review of Cat People (1942) Like most movies from the 40s, there is a lot of things you have to get used to stylistically before you can see through the time period and production quality to get to the value of the film. A few films stand out as familiar because they figured out a lot of movie making tricks that survive till today. Cat People is one of them, especially for the horror genre. Cat people is notable because it is the first to use the jump scare. It was created at a time when RKO was struggling financially, and was looking to make a quick buck off of the Universal horror recipe. Low budget monster movies with high returns. Cat People was made from a shoestring budget of $134,000 which would be about 2.5 million today. It made back (by some estimates) 30x. It’s vague in all the right places and has a very spare and lightning fast script. Again, if you can look past the time period, or at least appreciate it in context, this is a really good and thought provoking movie.

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0:00.0	Welcome
0:12.0	To the pretentious review of
0:18.0	Cat people That's not, that's hot, that's not That's not review of cat people.
0:21.8	That's not.
0:22.3	That's not.
0:23.2	That's not.
0:26.6	All right.
0:28.2	Another pretentious review.
0:30.6	I think my might... I interpreted it as actually pretentious and what I would choose.
0:38.0	Something that would be like, all right, Bryce.
0:42.1	Because I think I go towards like the Criterion Collection.
0:45.0	Oh.
0:47.5	And a lot of the times I pick something and then I find out later that it's part of the Criterion Collection, which is this one.
0:53.5	Oh.
0:55.8	So Cat People. What does it mean to be part of the criterion collection? Well, because I know that
1:01.0	those are DVDs that are nicer than other DVDs. Right. So criteria, I mean, there's a lot
1:05.7	attributed to the criterion collection as like a mark of quality or whatever but really what it is is they're just
1:12.2	a distribution company and so i think the kind of the mission statement is releasing films that
1:19.9	aren't are important but aren't readily available in print but even that kind of breaks down because they've got stuff like,
1:30.4	that's super popular.
1:32.6	Yeah, fair and loathing in Las Vegas is part of it.
1:34.7	Yeah, or like, just like Wes Anderson stuff.
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