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collectors worldwide and can increase in value over time.
Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John
Heard, Ed Begley, Annette O'Toole, Scott Paulin, Frankie R. Faison, John
Larroquette;
Director: Paul Schrader
Synopsis:
In this loose adaptation of the 1942 horror classic of the same name, a
2001-style opening montage establishes some sort of sacrificial, mystical union
between panthers and an ancient tribe of humans. Flash forward to 1980's New
Orleans, where waifish Irina (Natassja Kinski) meets her older brother, Paul
(Malcolm McDowell), a minister, for the first time since their animal trainer
parents died and she was sent to a series of foster homes. Paul's Creole
housekeeper, Female (Ruby Dee), helps Irina settle into her brother's home, but
Paul himself disappears. Cut to a fleabag motel where a blasé prostitute finds
an angry panther instead of a client; after mauling her, the cat is captured by
police and a team of zoologists: Oliver (John Heard), Alice (Annette O'Toole),
and Joe (Ed Begley Jr.). The next day Irina finds herself in the zoo where these
scientists work; drawn to the newly captured panther, she befriends Oliver and
takes a job in the gift shop. Shortly after the panther's violence turns deadly,
it escapes, and soon Paul turns up spouting an unbelievable story about his
family's were-cat heritage and his inevitable sexual union with little Irina. On
the run from her dangerous brother, Irina takes refuge in a sexually frustrated
romance with Oliver, afraid of what might happen if she consummates their
passion. Astute viewers will notice that the zoologist characters refer to the
film's panthers as leopards; "panther" is actually a generic term for any large
cat, especially a black one, but Cat People's panthers are in fact leopards
whose black color comes from a recessive trait known as melanism.