Cat Girl

Barbara Shelley's first horror film, an extraordinary British pastiche of Jacques Tourneur's Cat People, in which she plays a victimised and sexually repressed middle class woman who is suddenly able to channel her repressed emotion and sensuality into a ghostly cheetah which begins by savaging her husband. Tedious in places, and with an obviously low budget, it's still fascinating to witness the Ealing drawing-room tradition merge into that of an RKO-type horror film.