Oh Natassia Kinski...

Cat People(dir. Paul Schrader)
As a horror film, it simply falls flat. The film is incapable of creating a terrifying atmosphere outside of a pool sequence that was pretty much directly lifted from the original(only portion I've seen of that film). As a movie viewed on it's own terms, however, it's actually quite good. It's mythology of "cat people" is quite perverse and fascinating due to the freeing yourself from being a "cat person" through incest aspect of it. The film is definitely more sexual than gory even though there are some scenes that will surely please the gore hounds in the audience. Seeing Natassia Kinski prance around naked a bunch isn't exactly a bad thing, but it dwells on it's sexuality for far too long without really going anywhere with it. Thankfully, it does go somewhere with it near the end in a scene that's certainly interesting given it's zoophiliac undertones and use of bondage. The scene afterwards is more compelling since it's plays as an extremely unusual homage to Pickpocket's ending with the chick as a fucking cat and the guy as the non-prisoner of the two. By the end of it, you get the sensation that the film went on for too long and it ultimately suffers because of it. There's also the dated nature of the special effects that might not have been a problem in the original given it's reputation for suggesting the presence of cat people instead of actually showing(I could be wrong). Other than those gripes, I recommend.
*** out of ****