Paul Schrader’s sweaty, deviant remake of Cat People transcends the ’80s music and fashions that threaten to date it, making it a timeless psycho-sexual creepfest. Natassja Kinski is a girl with a secret who doesn’t know she has one. To her misfortune, she is plagued by a brother who knows all about it. Malcolm McDowell exudes a sensuality a little more than most women are looking for when they want a bad boy. He’s a bad boy with nine lives, and not a single one of them makes a good bedfellow.
The story’s premise will be familiar to anyone who has seen the Jaques Tourner classic: a race of people able to become leopards find it hard to have a normal love lives. And no one prepares them. Talk about lousy parenting. If anyone needs ”the talk,” it’s these folks. Watch it with someone you’re sure of.
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