
This mostly unrelated sequel to Cat People (1942) has Amy, the young daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed. Amy is a very imaginative child who has trouble differentiating fantasy from reality, and has no friends her own age as a result. She makes an imaginary friend though, her father's dead first wife Irena. At about the same time, she befriends Julia Farren, an aging reclusive actress who is alienated from her own daughter Barbara.... (Full plot summary below)
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This mostly unrelated sequel to Cat People (1942) has Amy, the young daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed. Amy is a very imaginative child who has trouble differentiating fantasy from reality, and has no friends her own age as a result. She makes an imaginary friend though, her father's dead first wife Irena. At about the same time, she befriends Julia Farren, an aging reclusive actress who is alienated from her own daughter Barbara.
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| Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)Bob BloomOne of the weakest movies from the Val Lawton unit. It's difficult to tell whether it's a horror film, a ghost story of just the imaginings of a sad, lonely, little girl. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceA remarkably elusive picture, a producer-auteur's personal summarization, a gold mine for later fabulists |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonSome kind of gentle, bizarre masterpiece. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonOne of the most curious sequels ever made. |
| VarietyVariety StaffMade as sequel to the profitable Cat People, this is highly disappointing because it fails to measure up as a horrific opus. |
| TheBluFile.comDustin PutmanUnexpectedly perceptive in its sympathetic observance of the pangs of childhood and the wondrous possibilities of imagination. |
| MetroActiveRichard von BusackDespite the snazzy title... Curse of the Cat People has as much pity and tears in it as chills. |
| New York TimesBosley CrowtherIt makes a rare departure from the ordinary run of horror films and emerges as an oddly touching study of the working of a sensitive child's mind. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullThis rather silly follow-up to Cat People isn't so much unwatchable as it is merely unnecessary. |
| Nick's Flick PicksNick DavisOne of those movies that coheres more interestingly because of its own odd heterogeneities, largely because the brio and friskiness of the filmmaking remain fairly constant over the short 70 minutes, even as the idioms keep moving around. |