Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site mtgzz.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!scherzo!allegra!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtgzz!leeper From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Scariest Movies (Cat People) Message-ID: <1382@mtgzz.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 19:02:31 EST Article-I.D.: mtgzz.1382 Posted: Tue Nov 5 19:02:31 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 07:13:31 EST References: <625@h-sc1.UUCP> <102800014@uiucuxc> <940@udenva.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Middletown NJ Lines: 26 >If you thought the remake was tense and suspenseful, you >should have seen the original (details escape me, but I'm >almost sure it was B&W). Sure it was. It was one of a string of very good, very atmospheric horror and semi-horror films produced by Val Lewton in the 40's. All were done in black and white. >In the original, the audience >doesn't know (as it does in the remake) whether these people >actually turn into cats or not. Actually, it is established for the audience, one way or the other. I won't say which way, but by the end of the film the audience knows if the legend is true or not. I am Philistine enough to like some remakes over their originals. I would include CAT PEOPLE, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, and THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. The last two are productions for Hallmark Hall of Fame. I still haven't decided on THE THING. No question on KING KONG, at least the second half of the man-in-a-suit remake could be burned for all I care. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper