The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

[Akijama]

https://www.shoutfactory.com/product...roduct_id=6745

[MifuneFan]

Amazing news. Many were disappointed when the Criterion release for Cat People didn't include this too, so this works out perfectly. This deal between Warner and Shout! is a godsend.

[PowellPressburger]

Wow this and Night of the Lepus is this first titles of a WB deal!

oh wait Of Unknown Orgin was already announced but still... this is great news.

[BarnDoor]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

Wow this and Night of the Lepus is this first titles of a WB deal!

oh wait Of Unknown Orgin was already announced but still... this is great news.

The It's Alive trilogy was the first Warner-related announcement. Now we're up to 6 titles in total, and I suspect it's a pretty expansive agreement if they're licencing something like Night of the Lepus. It just remains to be seen if there are non-horror titles in there.

[MJD64]

Despite the exploitative title, this is an imaginative and sensitively observed portrait of a lonely child and rates as highly as any of the acclaimed films out there on childhood...with a dash of the supernatural, of course.

Looks like the much-speculated Warner and Shout/Scream deal is a go and the possibilities are mouth-watering; can't wait for any and all announcements this opens the door to!

[NoirFan]

Assumedly I Walked with a Zombie will be up next, but I'm hoping for The 7th Victim!

[cakefactory]

Originally Posted by BarnDoor

The It's Alive trilogy was the first Warner-related announcement. Now we're up to 6 titles in total, and I suspect it's a pretty expansive agreement if they're licencing something like Night of the Lepus. It just remains to be seen if there are non-horror titles in there.

Well, you could also say "it must be a pretty tiny agreement if they're already resorting to Night of the Lepus."

Here's hoping they do more Val Lewton.

[MJD64]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

Assumedly I Walked with a Zombie will be up next, but I'm hoping for The 7th Victim!

Put me down for The Body Snatcher.

Though WAC may well release them, I'd like to think this deal may include Klute, Femme Fatale or some Hammer titles.

[cakefactory]

WAC has been releasing such deep catalog material recently and doing such a stellar job with the transfers that I would have been much more excited about a Shout deal with Paramount, but oh well, I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. I just hope that WAC is doing new transfers and handing them off to Shout instead of giving moldy old ones to Shout.

[lilboyblu]

Absolutely stoked for this announcement! Definitely the better of the two Lewton produced Cat People films. So glad that it's finally coming to Blu-ray!

[WaverBoy]

I guess this means no chance of a complete Val Lewton box set on Blu?

[AKORIS]

good to see that Scream Factory can still make some great announcements!!!

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

I guess this means no chance of a complete Val Lewton box set on Blu?

Nope.

[horroru]

I'm psyched for this, been waiting for a while now!

[dwk]

Originally Posted by MJD64

Put me down for The Body Snatcher.

Though WAC may well release them, I'd like to think this deal may include Klute, Femme Fatale or some Hammer titles.

I think Criterion may have Klute. Although they haven't released a WB title since last November, so who knows.

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by MJD64

Despite the exploitative title, this is an imaginative and sensitively observed portrait of a lonely child and rates as highly as any of the acclaimed films out there on childhood...with a dash of the supernatural, of course.

This might rank as one of the sequels most unlike its predecessor (akin to Babe: Pig In The City), which is not to say it's bad at all, but that anyone expecting it to be anything like the first Cat People will likely be confused.

If you can get past that hurdle, though, this is a damn fine movie...and Robert Wise's first directorial effort, I believe.

[HanaBi]

Wow, this is a really nice surprise. If this means more classic Warner titles from SF, my wallet is ready & waiting.

[ingmog]

A definite buy, but surprised to see it part of the Scream Factory label - despite its predecessor, this one is definitely not horror.

[MJD64]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

This might rank as one of the sequels most unlike its predecessor (akin to Babe: Pig In The City), which is not to say it's bad at all, but that anyone expecting it to be anything like the first Cat People will likely be confused.

If you can get past that hurdle, though, this is a damn fine movie...and Robert Wise's first directorial effort, I believe.

Agreed. I've always admired how it brings back main characters that connect it to the first film but then tells a completely different story, as opposed to the greater majority of sequels that merely rehash the original in an effort to recapture box-office profits. I consider it a real gem within the genre, and a rather touching ghost story as well.

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by ingmog

A definite buy, but surprised to see it part of the Scream Factory label - despite its predecessor, this one is definitely not horror.

As Zombie would have been a far more ‘appropriate’ choice for SF, I’m thinking that one was already spoken for by Criterion or WAC themselves. I could see SF following this up with a Karloff double-feature of Body Snatcher and Isle of the Dead. The former also has Lugosi, so that would seem to be a more marketable choice than Curse, meaning that it’s unlikely that Curse is a Lewton one-off for them (though they may be waiting to see how Curse does before proceeding further).