What a scene from the 1942 movie, Cat People,
when the moment a woman and a man open
the door to a pet store, all the pets go crazy.
Moments earlier, the man had bought the
woman a cat that hissed at her as though
she were a monster, and you knew then
that she was
by the reaction of the cat who gets along
with the man. And when the woman says
cats don’t like her, you knew there was
far more to the cat’s reaction.
You know it even more when she steps into
the pet store to exchange the cat for
another pet and all the animals freak out with fear.
This told me her evil monster wattage was
high voltage, and that she was going to be
the dual persona of pretty woman and
evil cat monster in the movie.
Great scene. Great set up for diabolical things
to come later in the movie. Hats off to whomever
conjured up that frantic, frightful scene.
Bob Boyd