With incomparable work from helmer Jacques Tourneur, lenser Nicholas Musuraca & scorer Roy Webb, R.K.O. producer Val Lewton turned the world of ‘B’ movies on its head with this wonderfully atmospheric shocker about a young woman who’s afraid that physical love turns her into a devouring great cat. With touches of shadow & sound replacing the usual explicit horror visuals, the film captures some of the haunting effects you get from the best radio dramas since it let’s you fill in the gaps in concrete elements and (here’s the genius of the thing) logic. Simone Simon (even her name makes one grin with delight) is the bewitching siren and Lewton found a cast that never feels like the bunch of sad routiners usually found in low budget fare.
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