Cat People (1982)
We like everything Paul Schrader does, but couldn’t be more surprised that he followed up 1980 — a year when he wrote Raging Bull and wrote and directed American Gigolo — with the sensationalist in the best sense Cat People.
After opening with a women being sacrificed to a black panther, the film cuts to modern (in 1982) New Orleans, where strange things are afoot at the zoo. Meanwhile the innocent Irena (Nastassja Kinski, above) reunites with her brother Paul (Malcolm McDowell), and a string of cat-adjacent murders.
Then things get much stranger from there. You’ll never look at your cat the same way again.
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