79 years ago:
The Curse of the Cat People (US)
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
1944-04-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28436
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Tasked with overseeing a low budget horror cycle to compete with Universal's comparatively lavish series, former Selznick right hand man #ValLewton produced a disarmingly adult chiller about an elegaic, empathetic, doomed immigrant (#SimoneSimon) who transforms when aroused. Mundane workplaces, stylish brownstone apartments and Central Park serve as backdrops for scenes of suggested terror, and #JaneRandolph is stalked in two of the most influential (and understated) horror sequences of...

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