A Kiss Could Change Her Into a Monstrous Fang-and-Claw Killer.

Cat People (1942) - 6/10. For a 70-minute film, it's remarkably slow-paced. It pushes your patience and reasonable logic, as the leads are married for something like three months with Simone Simon refusing to kiss her husband for fear she'll turn into a monstrous fang-and-claw killer and shit, dog, that's a long damn time. For a second, that makes for an interesting theme about jumping in and marrying someone you can't fully know and how centuries-old superstitions can keep someone from taking a chance and eventually driving the other peson away, so it's sort of disappointing when it finally becomes a horror movie. But ignore that. The last twenty minutes goes from first to whatever-a-fast-gear is and Simone Simon switches from sweet to deadly literally by flicking on the light. The whole movie's less of a crescendo and more of a person tapping their toe and then banging pots together.