Review

by Kelechi E

Original is better

An enjoyable film but the original is probably better. The story revolves around a brother and sister, descendants from the cat people where humans sacrificed their women to panthers and mated with them. When they have sex other than their own cat people kind, they turn into black panthers and can only revert back to human form by killing. Where the original was much more direct and subtle, the scenes in this movie are graphic with lots of blood, nudity, incest and erotic sexual activity. But if you look pass that (which is hard to do) it’s still an interesting film to watch although the plot does sound absurd. But for a horror movie, I guess absurd is a good thing, although this film does lack the moody atmosphere that the original 1942 film has. I guess what makes this watchable is the chemistry between Kinski as the innocent sister and McDowell as the creepy, unnerving brother.