StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

SnoopyStyle After his wife Irena's death, Oliver Reed has remarried to former co- worker Alice Moore. They have a strange daughter named Amy. She has no friends and hears voices. She befriends elderly recluse former actress Julia Farren living in a nearby mansion who is estranged from her own daughter Barbara. After finding a picture of Irena, Amy starts seeing an imaginary Irena.This is a strange horror sequel where the cast returns but the lead character is dead. Nevertheless, this stands on its own as a spooky little horror. The little girl is spooky herself. It's a moody small scale horror. Other than the original's iconic swimming pool scene, this is just as good. It turns a transformational horror into a ghost movie. Both works on their own terms.

Charles Herold (cherold) Cat People was an interesting thriller in which, as in most Val Lewton movies, you can interpret certain elements as you wish. The movie was a hit, so of course it makes sense that Hollywood wanted a sequel. Thus, Curse of the Cat People.If a sequel is a movie that continues the story of individuals from the original film, has some of the same actors, and has the original title in an altered form, then "Curse of the Cat People" is a sequel. But if a sequel is a movie that also is the same genre as its predecessor and aims for a similar visceral experience, then this movie is definitely not a sequel.While Cat People was a thriller with ambiguous elements, Curse of the Cat People is a moody tale of a lonely child's inner life. It is a movie about unhappiness, alienation, and the shaky line between fantasy and reality. It is a movie about the difficulties of parenting and the difficulties of having a parent. It is atmospheric and at times suspenseful, and it is ultimately a far more interesting and, for me, far better movie than Cat People.If you want an actual thriller sequel to Cat People, you may not like this. But if you want a fascinating and unusual film about childhood that is often told from the child's point of view, this is a must-see.

Man99204 I actually enjoyed this film ore than the much more famous Cat People.This film is worth watching for a number of different reasons.Most people watch this film because of Simone Simone. And while I am a major fan of Simone, this is not one of her better films. She has what amounts to a cameo - as few scenes in which she plays the ghost of Irena - the character from the Cat People film.The central character is actually child actress Ann Carter. She is absolutely mesmerizing in the role of a lonely child. Sadly, she made few films before becoming struck down by polio. It is amazing what can be done with a tiny budget - and a great amount of imagination. For a film buff, the fact that this is the first film directed by Robert Wise, makes it worth watching. He has an adept hand at directing even at this very early stage in his career.

writers_reign For reasons best known to the cynical, exploitationers concerned, this film was screened in a double bill with Cat People, to which, of course, it bears only the most tenuous connection. Like Cat People - in which I detected several flaws - I found here one gigantic flaw but again that may stem from the fact that I was watching both some seventy years after they first hit the screens. When, towards the beginning of the movie, Amy's contemporaries - three little girl who decline to play with her - first notice the old, large, house, it is on a regular block alongside others, yet when Amy runs out of the house in the last reel, she stumbles on the house after running through the WOODS for several minutes and it is completely isolated. That to one side I can but agree with several people who have recorded here their enchantment at this beguiling movie which is surely, as several of them noted, one of the finest depictions of a lonely child ever put on screen. Of the two titles in the double bill I found this the most enjoyable, entertaining and thought-provoking.