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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D

7.5 (55 Ratings) Rate It

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Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg, reprising his role from "The Avengers" and "Iron Man" ) heads an elite...

Awix (3310 KP) rated The Curse of the Cat People (1944) in Movies

Jun 4, 2020

The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

1944 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

6.3

(4 Ratings)

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Odd, dreamy follow-up to Cat People; not really a sequel in the conventional sense at all, barely qualifies as a horror movie, either. Picks up the story a few years later; the couple from the original film are now married with a child, who has a problematically rich fantasy life. Given a 'wishing ring' by a lonely old woman, she wishes for a friend - and what appears to be the ghost of her father's first wife (Irena the Cat Woman) materialises...

Much, much gentler than it might sound; there's virtually no reference to Irena's supposedly cursed blood (she turns into a cat in moments of passion), the 'curse' mentioned in the title is the shadow her death still casts over the family. But here Irena seems entirely benign and the story is about the relationship between parents and a child struggling to fit in. Nicely made and performed, but very hard to categorise.