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Director: Alfred Shaughnessy
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From Time Out Film Guide
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.Author: DP
Cast & crew
Director: Alfred Shaughnessy
Producer: Herbert Smith, Peter Rogers
Cast: Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, Kay Callard, Paddy Webster, Ernest Milton, Jack May full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 76 mins
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