One of the most beautiful films I have ever seen.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Nov 23, 2022

Often cited as Lewton's most personal film, some even calling it his best, The Curse of the Cat People remains unclassifiable and beguiling, yet supremely human in its understanding of and sympathy for the inner workings of a child's mind.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

One of the most curious sequels ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 10, 2021

A seriously oddball sequel...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 14, 2021

[Simone Simon] triumphs in her difficult and very complicated role. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Dec 16, 2020

The Curse of the Cat People's strongest bits convey the power of suggestibility, while Ollie Reed's bizarre past experiences with Irena seep into their daughter's psychological development.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2020

Only a little over a year later, this sequel, which follows everything set up by the original, abandons all that was effective.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Aug 5, 2020

Unexpectedly perceptive in its sympathetic observance of the pangs of childhood and the wondrous possibilities of imagination.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 21, 2018

Despite the snazzy title... Curse of the Cat People has as much pity and tears in it as chills.

Full Review | Apr 14, 2017

A film that takes the business of childhood completely seriously and aligns itself to a child's perspective with absolute conviction.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 28, 2012

Old-fashioned horror fantasy isn't too scary for tweens.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2010

One of those movies that coheres more interestingly because of its own odd heterogeneities, largely because the brio and friskiness of the filmmaking remain fairly constant over the short 70 minutes, even as the idioms keep moving around.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 25, 2010

A remarkably elusive picture, a producer-auteur's personal summarization, a gold mine for later fabulists

Full Review | Jan 11, 2010

Lewton's masterpiece

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 22, 2009

This picture remains one of the most ethereal looks at childhood the cinema has produced.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 14, 2007

Made as sequel to the profitable Cat People, this is highly disappointing because it fails to measure up as a horrific opus.

Full Review | Nov 14, 2007

Hardly a moment is wasted.

Full Review | Nov 14, 2007

No curses or Cat People.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jan 9, 2007

One of the weakest movies from the Val Lawton unit. It's difficult to tell whether it's a horror film, a ghost story of just the imaginings of a sad, lonely, little girl.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 24, 2006

Far from being a horror film, it's a touching, perceptive and lyrical film about childhood, psychologically astute and occasionally disturbing as it focuses entirely on the child's-eye view of a sad, cruel world.

Full Review | Jun 24, 2006