Cat People
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Oct 14, 2026
Victor LaValleGUEST
Mm.
David HydeHOST
But I really love the movies produced by Val Lewton, like the original Cat People.
David HydeHOST
Great-
Mat JohnsonGUEST
Oh, yeah.
JoeHOST
Tourneur
GrahamHOST
... triple feature of Cat People, uh, I Walked With a Zombie, and Leopard Man.
GrahamHOST
Um, thanks to Cat People, I, uh, I do know Ken Smith, but yeah, otherwise pretty much nobody else.
JoeHOST
Okay.
JoeHOST
Well, we are like throes into the show, and I'm, we're just gonna get right into the movie where all of the other side subjects are gonna come up.
Ryan EllisHOST
Glenn had played the big guy in House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula before this, too.
Ryan EllisHOST
As for Jane Randolph, the insurance investigator, she had a key role in Cat People a few years before this project.
Ryan EllisHOST
I'm going to cover that at some point for sure, Cat People.
Ryan EllisHOST
But she didn't do too much of anything else worth talking about.
Ryan EllisHOST
She was an uncredited extra in something seven years later.
Gareth HigginsHOST
Mm
Jett LoeHOST
... of the Cat People.
Gareth HigginsHOST
Mm-hmm.
Gareth HigginsHOST
Mm-hmm.
Jett LoeHOST
Folks, if you, if you haven't, didn't listen to our original version of the film talk, I think I said in the opening credits of that show how the Curse of the Cat People's b- is better than Wizard of Oz.
Gareth HigginsHOST
Mm-hmm.
Gareth HigginsHOST
Mm.
Jett LoeHOST
Or is as good as Wizard of Oz.
TezHOST
[laughs] Um, feline fright.
TezHOST
I went with the original, uh, The Cat People from 1942.
TezHOST
Very, very great.
TezHOST
Uh, very, very good cinematography.
Eleanor JohnsonGUEST
[laughs]
Vivian OwenHOST
Um, I wanna shift focus a bit to Dracula's Daughter and Cat People, which are two of my favorite horror films, and so I loved that you brought those up in the book.
Vivian OwenHOST
And I loved how in the book you also make the connection with Dracula's Daughter and Carmilla, which is also one of my favorite Gothic horror novels.
Vivian OwenHOST
In Dracula's Daughter and Cat People, as well as Carmilla, women's desires are treated as dangerous, and I'm curious how much do you think that specific era of the '30s and '40s shaped sexuality and autonomy, and how it was depicted through horror?
Eleanor JohnsonGUEST
Great question.
Eleanor JohnsonGUEST
So I think for context, part of what's going on in films of that era, in the '30s and '40s and into the '50s and beyond, but really acutely in the '30s and '40s, is that Hollywood filmmakers are simultaneously still working with sort of familiar tropes of monstrosity, like the vampire.
Vivian OwenHOST
Right.
Eleanor JohnsonGUEST
Greater threat to society.
Kate DolanGUEST
And such great performances from the cast in that as well.
Kate DolanGUEST
I love, another kind of emotional horror movie that I love is Let the Right One In, which was one of the first films I ever saw in a theater on my own I think it was the first film I went to the cinema on my own when I was like 17 it started a long love of bringing myself on a cinema date on my own and I just love that movie I think some of the visuals in that are so beautiful and again like it's just such a gripping story and yeah it's really great really brilliant and what will I say last um One of my favorite movies is, and this I think was one that kind of my grandmother maybe kind of introduced me to, was Cat People, 1942.
Kate DolanGUEST
I'm more like a queer woman as well so like it's got a lot of queer subtext in that movie which is you know really kind of rich and interesting and I think it has the first ever jump scare in it when the like bus pulls up the slider so yeah I love watching that that's a really like cozy Sunday afternoon kind of movie for me I love watching that movie and yeah it's just so kind of it's got a lot of interesting themes in about female sexuality and and repressing that and and yeah kind of ahead of its time in many ways which is very cool
Mike VelinskyHOST
great list and great description of films you know um final question because this really helps out a lot of the up-and-comers a lot of the students and people just still doing what they do creatively what are some recommendations that you have for the next generation of writers, directors, filmmakers, and so on?
KyleHOST
You know?
RyanHOST
What is it? 1941 Cat People?
KyleHOST
Uh, oh, I forget the exact year, but it is in '40s.
RyanHOST
For some reason-
Jonathan EvisonHOST
So, so much of, of, of terror to me is, again, psychological.
Jonathan EvisonHOST
There's, there's the story about how when they were making that movie, The Cat People, in 1942, which was...
Jonathan EvisonHOST
It was a studio movie.
Jonathan EvisonHOST
It was supposed to be a horror, like it was supposed to be scary, and the studio gave Jacques Tourneur, however you say his name, that French director, uh, these really hokey cat costumes and said, you know, "Go scare people." And I mean, these things were ridiculous.
Joel MorrisHOST
It looks great.
Joel MorrisHOST
He worked, one of his first films, maybe his first film, was Return of the Cat People with Val Lewton.
Joel MorrisHOST
This is the shadows that you use in a horror movie and a classy horror movie.
Joel MorrisHOST
So this is a classy movie.
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