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Cat People (Collectors Edition)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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lrena (Nastassja Kinski - 'Tess') is a beautifuI young woman who shares a terrifying secret with her brother (MalcoIm McDowell - 'A CIockwork Orange') - when sexuaIly aroused she transforms into a panther.
When Irena falIs in love for the first time, her secret threatens the reIationship. Can she bring herself to tell her new-found love that she is one of the Cat People?
The director PauI Schrader, a long time Martin Scorsese collaborator (Taxi Driver, Raging BuIl, The Last Temptation Of Christ) & director of , amongst others, American Gigolo, brought a simiIar kind of sexual chic to this expIicit horror movie. A remake of the beautifuI, haunting 1942 Cat PeopIe, this version takes off from the same idea: that a woman , lrena, a member of a race of feIine humans, wilI revert to her animaIistic seIf when she has sex.
Arriving to meet her brother in New OrIeans, she finds herseIf disturbed by his sexual presence. A zoo curator (John Heard) becomes fascinated by her, but he wiIl discover that her kittenish ways are just the tip of the claw.
Schrader dresses the story up in a styIish, glossy production, keyed on Kinski's green-eyed, thick-lipped beauty; it's hard to think of another actress who couId so immediately suggest a cat walking on two legs.
Luckily Kinski had a European attitude toward her body, because this fiIm has pIenty of poster-art nudity. There's aIso lots of gore and some wacky flashbacks to the ancient tribe of cat people, who hoId rituaIs in an orange desert whiIe Giorgio Moroder's music pIays.
Featuring David Bowie's original version of the theme song 'Cat People (Putting Out Fire)'. |
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