Eight years after the release of London After Midnight, Tod Browning remade the film as Mark of the Vampire with Lionel Barrymore as Professor Zelin, a variation on Chaney’s inspector from the original film. It is also the next film up in John Landis’ Monsters in the Movies, a coffee table tome that I am…
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Cat People (1942)
Had some time yesterday, to return to the exploration of 101 Horror Movies, and settled in to watch Cat People, which in the end is a story of sexual repression, with terrible repercussions for those involved. Simone Simon stars as Irena a Serbian-born fashion sketch artist, who has come to America to work. Against her…
The Mind Reels 