Screening

CAT PEOPLE

11.00pm, Thursday 5th October Odeon Great Northern

Credits

  • Director Paul Schrader
  • Cast Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell
  • Running time 118 mins
  • Year 1982

After years of separation, Irena and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale of the supernatural. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat — and the zoo curator is drawn to her. Soon, Irena’s brother will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they turn into predatory jungle cats…

GRIMMFEST SAYS: Rounding off our evening’s retrospective double bill is the archetypally 1980s and highly erotic remake of Jacques Touneur’s masterpiece that displays, in Schrader’s words ‘more skin than blood.’ For there’s plenty of that to come …  

Credits

  • Director Paul Schrader
  • Cast Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell
  • Running time 118 mins
  • Year 1982