The Horror Dads over at TCM’s Movie Morlocks (of which I am one) have decided that the best way to move on up through the last hours of Christmas Eve and beyond is with a discussion of the sort-of holiday-oriented Val Lewton classic Curse of the Cat People (1945). Ladle up a steaming cup of wassail, snuggle beside the fire or the tree (but not a tree on fire, please) and enjoy the dads as we dissect the pleasures of this unsung treasure and wonder if we would have been as angry in 1945 as many patrons were when they ponied up to see a sequel to Cat People that had no cat people or curses, a movie that turned out to be less horror film than a psychologically acute fairy tale. It’s a fun discussion, brilliantly moderated and edited as usual by our grand overseer Richard Harland Smith. Click now before Santa stumbles in!
Merry Christmas, all, and to all a good night!
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