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The
stage production of Kiss of the Spiderwoman at Keswick's
Theatre by the Lake this summer features a character recounting
the plot of a classic '40s Hollywood horror movie: Cat
People. Kitten-faced Simone Simon plays Irena, a Serbian
girl in New York who is tortured by ancestral memories of
her town's werecat history. What set this film apart from
contemporary horror movies was its rejection of gnashing
teeth and dodgy masks, of monsters and mad scientists: these
were ingredients that ultimately made audiences laugh. Instead,
ordinary people experienced the extraordinary. The strange
and the frightening were suggested by film noir lighting
and a revolution in horror movie-making was born. The British
Film Institute nominates Cat People as one of the
360 key works in the history of cinema. Not to be mistaken
for the '80s remake - accept no substitute.
Critics
"With
its chilling set-pieces directed to perfection by Tourneur,
it knocks Paul Schrader's remake for six" Tom
Milne, Time Out
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